Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Steve finished the second book in the Hitchhiker trilogy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, so I had to read it too. He found this one silly but I think it was always one of my favorites. The Total Perspective Vortex, for instance, and the cow that wants to be eaten are pure genius. And one of my favorite quotes is “I get weirder things than you free with my breakfast cereal.”
Then there’s the whole bit about the man who rules the universe. “Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?” Steve tells me that was originally Socrates or Plato or someone but all I know is I heard it from Douglas Adams first.