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|title=42 - Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
|author=Peter Gill
|reviewer=Robert James
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Fantastic collection of trivial facts related to the number 42. Highly recommended to Douglas Adams fans and non-fans alike. Peter Gill was kind enough to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Peter Gill|talk to Bookbag]].
|rating=5
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=352
|publisher=Beautiful Books Ltd
|date=January 2011
|isbn=978-1907616129
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A common question about Douglas Adams’ famous Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is just why Adams chose the number 42 as the answer to life, the universe and everything. In a charming trivia book, author Peter Gill takes 50 pages or so to look into the story of the book and the author and another 250 to find occurrences of 42 in the worlds of sport, crime, science and a wide range of other fields.
Further reading suggestion: While this is clearly the definitive text on 42, if you’d like some facts on the 41 numbers before it and the 158 that come after it then [[Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200 by Derrick Niederman]] is excellent!
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