#66 in Humour
The Salmon of Doubt
- 299
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Salmon of Doubt” is a posthumous miscellany that lets admirers of Douglas Adams hear his voice again, on technology, travel and tea. Essays, columns and interviews fill most of it, and the title piece is the fragment of his unfinished novel. Some readers come away saddened at how much he still had to say. Some also find the material very mixed in quality, with little for anyone who knows Adams only in passing.
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About the book
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously published and unpublished material by Douglas Adams. It consists largely of essays, interviews, and newspaper/magazine columns about technology and life experiences, but its major selling point is the inclusion of the incomplete novel on which Adams was working at the time of his death, The Salmon of Doubt. English editions of the book were published in the United States and UK on 11 May 2002, exactly one year after the author's death.
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7.97.9 / 10 - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
7.97.9 / 10 - The Salmon of DoubtThis book
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 202 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 58% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Humour average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.7 | 30 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 172 | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Salmon of Doubt?
It has 299 pages — shorter than 81% of the ranked books in Humour.
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