The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

          This novel is the sequel to Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The story continues as it was left off. Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and Zaphod Beeblebrox have just narrowly escaped the planet Magrathea and those on it who want to catch Zaphod for fleeing the position of President of the Galaxy. Once a fair distance away from this hostile planet, Arthur Dent, main character, and his gang decide to go and get  something to eat at the restaurant at the end of the universe. But before they are to go any further, they are suddenly under attack from a Vogan ship. Vogans are some of the most vile, dangerous aliens there are in the universe. As the reader, we understand from the Vogans view that they are being paid to conduct the elimination of these three beings, yet we are not to sure why. Onboard the ship, Zaphod summons his great grandfather to help him escape the evil grasp of the Vogans during a seance. His witty great granddad, agrees to help him by using his super dead powers. The next thing we as the reader know know in the story, Zaphod mysteriously finds himself  far away from his spaceship, in a completely different world, only with the slightest notion that he is to find a person named Zarniwoop.
         Like most of Douglas Adams novels, they are mostly utterly confusing on purpose in order to create a comical setting. But underneath it's funny outside exterior, there is a slight sense of the unknown, a feeling of not knowing where the characters are going to do next, or what they are going to do. One reason for this is in the character Zaphod Beeblebrox. Often in the story, the narration will focus on Zaphod, and his thoughts, one example of this is when Zaphod repeatedly claims that there are thoughts locked away in his brain. What are these thoughts? The reader does not know, but they are the driving force of the story, for there is a strong possibility that the quest of these three people revolve around them, for often the narrator stops to talk about them. Due to this, we never know what next will appear within Zaphods mind and how that effects the story line.