{"id":1413,"date":"2017-02-13T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2017-03-30T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:04:38","slug":"so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish-by-douglas-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\n\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/3014055\/summary\/57022637\"\ntarget=\"_self\"><img style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\n\"https:\/\/pics.cdn.librarything.com\/picsizes\/ba\/19\/ba19794fa15cf32593959575077434f414f4141.jpg\" alt=\n\"So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams\" \nalign=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fourth book in the Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy series was a bit disappointing.  That is not to say it was bad, but it didn&#8217;t seem to hold up to the previous books.  Arthur is on the Earth 2, about 8 years after the destruction of the original version.  The book was disappointing to me because the plot was weaker and many of the characters weren&#8217;t as interesting as in the series.  <\/p>\n<p>Arthur falls in love with a girl, that seems to be a major plot point, but doesn&#8217;t develop.  The girl&#8217;s reactions didn&#8217;t seem reasonable to me at times.  <\/p>\n<p>Another plot point is discovering why the dolphins have disappeared.  But this point is just dropped in favor of another plot point &#8211; discovering god&#8217;s final message.  <\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, Adams displays his peculiar brand of humor quite well.  Each turn of events is pretty much unexpected and often funny.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth book in the Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy series was a bit disappointing. That is not to say it was bad, but it didn&#8217;t seem to hold up to the previous books. Arthur is on the Earth 2, about 8 years after the destruction of the original version. The book was disappointing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[44,45],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-science-fiction","tag-douglas-adams","tag-hitchhiker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}