Hitchhiker 4&5?

[Tokagima]

alright so i have all 3 books on my computer and will gladly email them to anyone who wants them for easy reading but then i have i think a 4th and a 5th that relate to it but arent actually part of the trilogy even though it says it is. anyone care to comment or request an email?  

[cant_delete_accounts]

HHGG is a trilogy in five parts.  

[Ghost Chef]

tombrend

HHGG is a trilogy in five parts.

What he said.

Do they happen to be called "So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless"?  

[Tokagima]

indeed, see when i think trilogy i think 3, but then again thats just crazy to expect something normal from Douglas Adams. was a sad day when he passed on. anyways they are and i love them. truly a masterpiece 5 part trilogy blaugh  

[Ghost Chef]

Where did you get them, if I may ask?  

[Tinnumir]

*pokes head in* 6 if you count the short story "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe"!
*runs away*  

[MST3Kakalina]

i have all 6 too, as well. or i think i still have them, somewhere.

i don't like 4 and 5 nearly as much, maybe it has something to do with the fact that DNA returned to them so much later. i can't arse myself to read "Young Zaphod," as i am afraid i will be very very disappointed.  

[cant_delete_accounts]

Its pretty good. Really random. It doesn't answer any of the things I have read that it answers. It doesnt say how Zaphod came to be president, nor anything to do with the heart of gold. It has something to do with a ship at the bottom of the ocean.  

[manta love]

From what I remember of "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe", Zaphod has some sort of regular job, and he doesn't do something horribly foolish when he could.  

[cant_delete_accounts]

It doesn't give any direct information. It heavily implies that he held the galaxy hostage. Maybe.  

[Fearless Trowa]

MST3Kakalina

i have all 6 too, as well. or i think i still have them, somewhere.

i don't like 4 and 5 nearly as much, maybe it has something to do with the fact that DNA returned to them so much later. i can't arse myself to read "Young Zaphod," as i am afraid i will be very very disappointed.

I have all except Moatly Harmless, as well as the book that has all 6  

[I Was Matuso]

I never much cared for the last two. So Long was kind of...off...and Mostly Harmless was just straight-out depressing.  

[Yuki-Onna Reed]

Well, both had their good moments, if you ask me... also, I do like the characters of Fenchurch and Random... too bad Fenchurch is forced to vanish in order to make Arthur miserable again, and Random gets *spoiler* with the others after she's only been in one book. xp  

[Pashunath]

mantalove

From what I remember of "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe", Zaphod has some sort of regular job, and he doesn't do something horribly foolish when he could.

Zaphod's running a used ballpoint pen business when a "perfectly safe" ship crashes next to his underwater shop. Then something escapes from the ship and heads towards the area where earth is and the men who come to look at the ship say that area need to be made "perfectly safe". I still don't quite understand it all.  

[Yuki-Onna Reed]

Pas

mantalove

From what I remember of "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe", Zaphod has some sort of regular job, and he doesn't do something horribly foolish when he could.

Zaphod's running a used ballpoint pen business when a "perfectly safe" ship crashes next to his underwater shop. Then something escapes from the ship and heads towards the area where earth is and the men who come to look at the ship say that area need to be made "perfectly safe". I still don't quite understand it all.

That's...not the version in the Ultimate Guide, is it? Although...is that where that business about all the ballpoint pens escaping to their own planet comes from? I'm not sure I quite remember Zaphod's shop being underwater... I thought he went along with the two guys on a ship (that is, a spaceship with underwater capibilities) to find the wreckage of another ship that had crashed underwater (I'm not entirely sure why Zaphod came along...I think he was part of a salvage company), and the driver of the ship is obsessed with lobsters (I think he dies), and the other guy's a government official or something. Anyway the ship had three prototype Genuine People Personalities on board that were really dangerous, because they had the ability to do whatever they liked and no one would stop them...and one escaped to Earth... In some versions of the story it's implied, I think, that it was Ronald Reagan (the hell?!). And Earth has to be made "perfectly safe"...implying that Earth was destroyed for this reason...but then what does this have to do with Zaphod's psychiratrist? *dizzy*
All in all, a really confusing story. You're better off ignoring it, but there are some amusing bits about lobsters and ballpoint pens in there. whee