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Douglas Adams
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency |
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English |
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Paperback |
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256 |
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1988-06-24 |
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0330301624 |
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Pan Books |
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0.26 pounds |
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0.63 x 4.33 x 7.01 inches |
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Hope (United Kingdom) (2007/08/13):
I think I made the mistake of reading "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" first, as a teenager, and so coming to Dirk Gently afterwards, as an adult, feels rather flat. It does not seem as funny or as amusing, and it is a little repetitive in places, almost to the point of there being book catch phrases. There were a couple of moments where I thought, ah, yes, Douglas Adams has observed that in someone or at a particular place (the tiny tiny tiny kernels of truth amongst all the fabrication) and then exaggerated it, but this is not really enough for me to want to hang on to the book!
Marianne (Australia) (2012/05/05):
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is the first in the Dirk Gently series by the late Douglas Adams. After the first few chapters, the reader may well ask: what do a faulty electronic monk with belief problems, a horse in a bathroom, a sofa stuck in a staircase, a computer programmer, a Professor of Chronology, a billionaire software company owner, a silver salt cellar stuck inside a 200 year-old Greek pot and the poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge have to do with one another? Dirk Gently, owner of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, firmly believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, and does, indeed, manage to prove that this is so. While he does so, he also manages to track down a visitor from another world and save our own. This novel is full of delicious, clever Adams humour of the same quality as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, from the first to the very last page. Some of the things Adams dreams up (like Total Reason software to support the outcome you want, music from the form of things in nature and Zen navigation) are only a step from the truly realistic. Readers will look forward to whatever Adams has to offer in the sequel, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.
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