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Title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Adams ISBN: 0-671-74672-3 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.49 (61 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than HHTTG
Comment: I finally found a used hardcover edition in pure mint condition at a used bookstore, nowhere else having it. And then I finally read it.
Very slow at first, I almost gave up on reading it, but it builds slowly. Slowly. Dirk doesn't even appear until 5/8ths into the book, but that's okay. All that matters is that this book is simply incredible. I tend to catch things very quickly (like movies that say you should see it twice to get it, I get it the first time), so I got the entire book and story immediately and loved it.
Not to mention it's extremely witty and well informed, where Douglas Adams got all the music ideas and fractal stuff from is of no clue to me, but it amazed me also. Just get this book for the fact that Douglas Adams' intelligence will frighten you after you read HHGTTG.
Douglas Adams' has written something I'd never expect from the writer of the HHGTTG series. A very deep thinking, yet rather humorous, book. In his very remarkable comedic style.
Time to read the sequel!
Rating: 4
Summary: I Listened to the Audio Book
Comment: The Audio version of this book was definitely a treat for me. Listening to the story read by the author, hearing it the way Douglas Adams intended it to sound was great. I really enjoyed listening to his wonderful accent as he told this story. The story has all of Adams' amazing British humor, but also is liberally dosed with astounding intelligence. It is mostly a mystery story, with a bit of sci-fi thrown in for good measure. Dirk Gently is a detective that believes in the total interconnectedness of all things. It starts out with several seemingly unrelated story lines. These story lines are all intricately interwoven and the book ends with a satisfying... well... interconnectedness. Those of you that did not like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series because it was "too silly" should give this book a try. It's anything but silly. Adams' logic can be astounding. Also, the bit with the couch being stuck in the stairway is intriguing. Adams challenges the reader to figure out how this couch is mysteriously stuck, defying all rules of physics.
Rating: 3
Summary: A ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic
Comment: This is a very strange book. Adams himself has described it as a "ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic, mainly concerned with mud, music and quantum mechanics." It's hard to know who the main character really is. The title character, Dirk Gently, doesn't even appear in the story until almost a hundred pages into the book, and until that time, it seems that the story is really about computer programmer Richard MacDuff. But there are also ghosts involved, an Electric Monk from another world, an over 200-year old professor of chronology, and much else.
The story is a murder mystery, of a sort, and the plot gradually begins to centre around Dirk Gently's holistic concept that all things are fundamentally interconnected with each other. Gently himself is a very amusing and talkative character, and the highlights of the book is whenever he appears. The concept of the Electric Monk, and its purpose for existing, is also very entertaining.
Several elements of the story were salvaged by Adams from earlier ideas he had had when he was writing a few scripts (Shada and City of Death) for the "Dr. Who" show on BBC. And the story also reflects Adams's increasing interest in computers. Another bit of noteworthy trivia is that the publishing rights for this book, and its sequel, before either of them had been written, were sold for two million dollars.
Adams stays true to form, and the book is at times very funny. The solution to the mystery is unusual, to say the least, although the ending, suddenly involving quite a bit of sci-fi, is confusing and abrupt, and it's not exactly spelled out in detail how the world was saved. It is an entertaining read, although I can't help feeling it's not quite what it could have been.
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Title: Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams ISBN: 0671742515 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Last Chance to See by Mark Carwardine, Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine ISBN: 0345371984 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams ISBN: 1400045088 Publisher: Harmony Books Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones ISBN: 0345368436 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams ISBN: 0345418778 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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