Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Revise Project with Ishrak Jahan

          The comedic novel, The Restaurant at the end of the Universe is the sequel book to Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The series starts with your everyday normal male Arthur Dent. Who just so happens on this one particular day, to be told by his good friend Ford Prefect, that the world is to come to an end. Arthur, obviously not believing Ford soon believes him when a large space shape-like vehicle appears above his small town and declares that they will explode the earth. Luckily for Arthur, Ford happens to get his way on the ship by hitching a ride. The next thing Arthur knows he is onboard the foreign ship. While stashed in the Cargo hold, Arthur learns that Ford Prefect is actually an alien from the planet of Betelgeuse, who is spending the time on earth writing the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, an encyclopedia about the universe. Astounded to hear this, Ford and Arthur are thrown off the ship by one of the Alien species called Vogans, but not before being tortured awhile by some awful poetry. They are miraculously picked up after being thrown into hyper-space by Fords crazy friend Zaphod Beeblebrox. Who just so happened to be president of the Universe. At this moment, he had stolen the fastest ship in the galaxy, and was running away from the space cops. Apparently he had taken the ship to reach a mystical planet by the name of Magrathea, which is were Zaphod believes there will be a lot of gold and riches. So the dynamic duo decide to go along with Zaphod to learn of Magrathea. When the group finally reaches the planet of Margrathea, they find an open tunnel on the surface of the now deserted planet, and they climb down to find a crazy old man named Slartibartfast, who tells the characters that Magrethea used to make planets all over the universe. Earth, was purely made as a giant intelligent computer to discover the answer to the Life Universe and Everything. But just as the "computer" earth was about to make it's critical most anticipated outlook, it was destroyed as mentioned early in the story by the Vogans to make for a giant bypass. Shortly after hearing this from Slartibartfast, Arthur, Ford, and Zaphod are attacked by a group of mice who greatly want to find the answer to the life the universe and everything. Since Arthur is a human from earth, they figure that possibly the answer is stored somewhere in his brain. So they attempt to cut his brain out and find the answer. Yet Ford and Zaphod manage to get Arthur out of the situation, and unfortunately right into another dilemma. Waiting for them on the surface of the planet Magrethea, is the entire galaxy police force waiting to take Zaphod in for stealing the Heart of Gold spaceship. Thankfully,  Arthur, Ford, and Zaphod are able to out smart the police troops and get back on to the Heart of Gold spaceship where they blast off of Magrethea, and the dangers that awaited them there.
          The book creates a very witty funny setting. Many of the things that are written are very random, so while reading this book you have to learn to expect the unexpected. Most of the jokes can be very non-sensical and do not make complete sense. But through the funny, witty, clueless exterior of this novel is a story that is very weird and bizarre and has really made me think about what the author Douglas Adams meant for the reader to interpret.
         The first thing in the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy  that really made me wonder was how the character Zaphod decides all of a sudden to steal the Heart of Gold spaceship. He mentions to Arthur and Ford that deep down in his brain, something told him to steal it. I really felt like this was very strange, possibly what ever is hidden away deep down in his brains is going to be very crucial for the rest of the series. Maybe it is not even Zaphod who is putting the thoughts into his mind, maybe it is some one else who wants Zaphod to get the Heart of Gold spaceship for a very special reason.
         The second thing in the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy that also made me wonder was the chapter where the evil mice wanted Arthurs brain to find the answer to life the universe and everything. Could the answer actually be hidden in Arthurs brain? Whichever way, I have a feeling that it will appear somewhere along the story line for the "computer" earth data must not all be destroyed. Or is it?