So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

The fourth installment of the Hitchhiker's series was a surprise. I really enjoyed it. Like the first two, it doesn't have much of a plot, but the storytelling is much tighter and there are fewer asides. It's not necessarily laugh out loud funny, but I often had a smile on my face. Unlike the first three, the majority of it takes place on Earth and Arthur Dent is the main character, not merely a MacGuffin (that is, a person, object, or event that is necessary to the plot but irrelevant itself). Rather than being the butt of many of the jokes, he gets to have a real plot line and much deeper character development.

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