The Salmon of Doubt
by Douglas Adams

List Price: $15.00
Our Price: $4.49
You Save: $10.51 (70%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions

Book Summary Information

Book Reviews of The Salmon of Doubt

Book Review: A Fine Tribute
Summary: 5 Stars

The book is separated into three sections, appropriately titled, respectively, Life, the Universe, and Everything. The first, Life, is made up primarily of newspaper and magazine articles - including one he wrote at the ripe old age of twelve - regarding his background and upbringing, his escapades paid for by various unsuspecting patrons, his love/hate relationship with Macintosh, and other ramblings on things such as unwritten rules of travel, the proper way to make tea, the social strategies of canines, and New Year hangovers.

The second section, the Universe, is made up of half unpublished musings, half interviews with aethiests, and half speeches on our "artificial god" of money. As the title of this section would suggest, as well as my flawed arithmetic, everything discusses topics having to do with universal religion and/or ideas regarding the universe and multiple reality theories.

The third secion, and Everything, is everything else. Starting off with an interview with The Onion, then going back in time to a short story about the personal life of Ghengis Khan, followed a few thousand years in the future by the short story many of us have read in The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe," and back to the deceptively modern setting of Dirk Gently in Salmon of Doubt, the beginnings of a novel that will, hopefully, remain incomplete for eternity.

Throughout the book things pick up and then fall down again, some things funny and some things insightful and, as was Adams' style, some things both at the same time, for an emotional roller-coaster ride that I would not have put down save for the persuasive calls of nature. I highly recommend this book, even moreso if you are intimately acquainted with his Hitchiker, Dirk Gently, and Liff novels.

Comic Books

• Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction
• Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy
• Science Fiction