Having never read this and the many pop culture references to these books, I finally plopped them on my Kindle before a long flight about a month ago. It’s been quite some time since I actually laughed out loud reading a book, but it happened many times throughout this series. I suppose like many I was a bit disappointed with how the series ended; the last two parts and the final one in particular seemed to diverge a bit from the initial 3 parts in that it was a bit more gloomy. Even with the ending I am happy to have read them and would highly recommend it to fans of sarcastic science fiction.