The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams

Jul 2006 · Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Book 2 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Martin Freeman

About this audiobook

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!

“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.

Among Arthur’s motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who’s gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food speaks for itself (literally).

Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that The Hitchhiker’s Guide deleted the term “Future Perfect” from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!

“What’s such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adams’s sardonically silly eyes.”—Detroit Free Press

Ratings and reviews

The story, as with all 5 of the books in this series, is great. Not as tight a tale as the first HGG, but still a lot of raucous fun. Martin Freeman's reading is... ok. After listening to Book 1 read by Stephen Fry, it was acutely obvious that Fry can read them as jokes, while Freeman just reads them as... sentences. It doesn't land, and many of the cleverest moments and descriptions are passed by without a moment's reflection. Fry was so good it overshadows Freeman by so much that it loses some luster. Still a good 4/5 star read, through!

Fully engaged in listening to Martin Freeman read this book. Douglas Adams i such a talented author to relate what we know into imagination and creativity.

Amazing narrator. But the story was greatly lacking.

About the author

Douglas Adams was the bestselling author of many works including The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, recently released as a major motion picture. He died in 2001.