If you're fan of HHG, it's worth getting this audiobook for the ending alone. It is a fitting celebration to the end of the story, and a touching tribute to Douglas Adams' creation.
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It ends on a glad note, not a sour one as in "Mostly Harmless." I laughed out loud at the inventiveness of it, for the first time since I started listening to the "phases." I don't mean to imply that the rest of the radio series is humorless, but I'd read all the books and was already familiar with the jokes. Huh? I don't know if this was Adams' intent before he died, or a decision on the part of the writer who adapted the series for radio, but the radio story goes on. then saw on my iPod that there was still ten minutes of audio left to go. It was a clear message to his readers: that's the end of the story, there will be no more. If you've read the fifth book in the HHG series, "Mostly Harmless," you know that Adams ended the series on a depressing note. But they are brief, and you can figure things out afterwards.
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Well, mostly free there are one or two spots when there's too much going on. All four radio episodes that make up the "Quintessential Phase" are free of those problems. In my reviews of the previous two "phases", I said that portions were over-produced and too faithful an adaptation of the novels. If you listened to the previous BBC radio productions of Douglas Adams "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series (including the "Tertiary Phase" and the "Quandary Phase"), you've probably already decided to complete the story by getting the "Quintessential Phase." You're in for a treat. This extended edition features 40 minutes of material not heard on BBC Radio 4. Guest stars include Miriam Margolyes, Griff Rhys Jones, John Challis, Roy Hudd, Saeed Jaffrey, and Jonathan Pryce. William Franklyn is the Book, Rula Lenska is also the Book and Samantha Béart is Random. Simon Jones returns as Arthur, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Sandra Dickinson as Tricia McMillan, and Stephen Moore as Marvin. A stolen ship, a dramatic stampede and a new and sinister Guide lead to a race to save the Earth.again. And just when Arthur thinks he has found his true vocation on the backwater planet of Lamuella, the original Trillian turns up with more than a little spanner in the works. Meanwhile, on one of many versions of Earth, a blonder, more American Trillian gets tangled up with a party of lost aliens having an identity crisis. While frequent flyer Arthur Dent searches the universe for his lost love, Ford Prefect discovers a disturbing blast from the past at The Hitchhiker’s Guide HQ. Don’t panic! The Hitchhiker’s saga returns once again with a full-cast dramatisation of Mostly Harmless, the fifth book in Douglas Adams’s famous ‘trilogy in five parts’.
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