So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

As it is printed on the cover, 'so long and thanks for all the fish' is the fourth in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy. I had read the first two Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy books, but not the third, when I started the fourth, and I was a little afraid of being lost in the plot. Luckily, the reader can flip any of the books to any page, any paragraph and have about the same level of comprehension and confusion as someone who’s read the whole series religiously. About every other paragraph is satirizing some common issue, in fact the entire premise, that earth is destroyed and Arthur Dent, normal and unobtrusive descendent of the apes, must fend for himself as hitchhiker in the Galaxy. The day earth is destroyed Arthur is protesting the demolishing of his house to put up a bypass by laying in between his house and the bulldozer meant to destroy it, though the demolisher Mr.Prosser points out:
"Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"

"How much?" said Arthur.

"None at all," said Mr. Prosser.

Arthur’s house does get demolished, and later that day, so does planet earth, on account of a hyper space bypass that really needed to go straight through where the earth was. Arthur escapes with his best friend, the alien Ford Prefect, my favorite character, Drunkard and experienced Hitchhiker. Every character is memorable and sympathetic, though the inanimate objects tend to have a lot more character and vigor than the actual characters. The best way to read these books is without any expectations or judgments at all, and all the faith you can muster up. The absolutely impressively, creatively random insanity that Douglas writes always manages to have a purpose, and tie mind-bogglingly (a very useful phrase in describing the hitchhikers trilogy) around to close up the story. Douglas tackles the greatest questions man kind has ever asked, from 'is there life outside of earth?' (yes, duh) to what is the answer to the meaning of life?' (The number 42,) to gods final farewell message (sorry for the inconvenience).
Despite being the most illuminating book ever written, 'so long and thanks for all the fish' also happens to be utterly without meaning, and arguably without a certainly cohesive strand of thought. This is acknowledged appropriately in the last line of the book: "There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind."
I love Douglas Adams "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" because it is the most feel-good series I have ever read, without any doubt one of the funniest, and ill admit it; they always leave me feeling a little enlightened, with a happy-Buddha smile on my face. So if I'm incomprehensively late on this book blog, it’s because I’m finding it hard to really care about grades when I've made my peace with my world being demolished to make alien transit easier.