A good unfinished posthumous book

I really like this book. It is a collection of some of Douglas Adams' short articles, speaches and interviews and his unfinished novel The Salmon of Doubt, another Dirk Gently book.

The short items of the book explore Adams' interests, plans for the future (which he sadly would never fulfill), funny real life stories and more. Of these watch out for:

Maggie and Trudie
Riding the Rays
Tea
For Children Only
Cookies

But those are only a few of the gems in this work and are among my favourites. It's a wonderful collection, showing his worries and loves in life. The whole thing is started with an editor's note, a prolouge, and a foreword by Stephen Fry. Out of these I love the foreword most because it chimes in with Adams' style of writing but is also a rather touching view from a friend of Douglas Adams (plus, Stephen Fry talking about running around the room giggling makes me smile).

Firstly, you can tell that the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt wasn't completed by Adams and he hadn't had a chance to polish the existing work. The introduction to the book even explains how it was pieced together after his death. What is there is interesting and puzzling and it is frustrating to know that we'll never have an original Adams answer to it.

After this the book is rounded off with a final interview and an epilogue for both Adams and the book. In the interview Adams talks about the future, and it hits you as kind of sad because we know that he would never get to any of it. I felt it was a rather touching close to a nice collection.

8/10