When all the questions of Life, the Universe and Everything have been resolved, only one question remains: "Where shall we have dinner?" Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, provides a sophisticated gastronomic experience whilst watching the universe around going to its end.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe written by Douglas Adams is based on BBC radio programmes first broadcast in 1978-80. It was first published as a book in 1980. The book is the second volume of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - the trilogy of five. It continues the story begun in the previous book. To understand everything it is better to read the whole trilogy so that you do not waste time in getting familiar with the characters.
The book is about four friends travelling through the Milky Way, seeking the man who rules the universe - and a place where they could have dinner. We get to know Arthur Dent and Trillian, the only humans in the book; Ford Prefect, the hitch-hiker; and Zaphod Beeblebrox, the President of the Galaxy. During our voyage with them we also meet a lot of different races, cultures, and religions.
The plot of the book is not as important as the creatures we meet. The story, however, is well-made and takes us from place to place so that we see the whole colourful spectrum of life in the universe. Every little detail in the story affects the others, and the book has an unusual way of first telling the results and a little while after that showing the cause.
The fascination of the book is based on all the slightly human-like creatures we meet. Adams has succeeded in imagining cultures in some way just like humans but in others completely different. Imagining those creatures he has noticed, and used, all their ablities - I specially liked the scene where Zaphod Beeblebrox slaps both his foreheads with two of his arms and one of his thighs with the other.
Personally, I love science fiction and creations of imagination, therefore this book was tailor-made for me. Writing a book like this is a great dream, though today light-years away. All this, added with some verbal acrobatics, and some absolutely wonderful products of imagination, mixed with the enormous storytelling, is possible only for Douglas Adams.