This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only known exception to this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.” Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression ‘As pretty as an airport.’Īirports are ugly. Nonetheless, because it is contains some Douglas Adamsisms that have stuck with me through the years, it still had moments of brilliance. However, unlike American Gods, which resembles it more than a bit, it is entirely more palatable and has 100% less offensive scenes, so there is that (I may have some trouble with statistics here). There is no way easy way to say this, but despite ingredients that should be interesting, it just fails to work for me. Read 2020 Recommended for fans of Douglas Adams ★ ★Īlmost entirely, but not quite, unlike tea–I mean, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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