At the outset of this short book by the author of 'The Hitch Hiker Trilogy', I was hopeful for a blissful return to the cosmic mayhem of yore. I came upon the book on a hospital shelf and it seemed like a dead ringer to lift the gloom and restore spirits and that it did. As a random choice, it did m...
I didn’t enjoy this nearly as much as Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. It started off interesting, but for some reason I became progressively less interested as the story continued and I put the book down more and more frequently. I also didn’t find it as funny. It had humor, but it didn’...
"Enter the slightly off kilter world of Dirk Gently, where Norse gods run amok in the streets of London while a holistic detective tries to unravel the beheading of a record producer. Sound confusing? Welcome to the mind of Douglas Adams. Everyone knows Douglas for his Hitchhiker's trilogy (all four...
Fun in a sadly beautiful and very British sort of way. There's a pleasing harmony between the mundane and not so mundane things that happen to Dirk and Kate throughout the book, and the juxtaposition between Kate's reaction to these events and Dirk's is enjoyable. There is also a very artful harmo...
Listening to the audiobook this time around, I have to say that I enjoyed Douglas Adams' second Dirk Gently novel just as much as the first time around. Classic stuff.
1 Jan 1988The travails of trying to order a pizza, Valhalla in London, and unexpected encounters with Thor.I loved it. 16 September, 2012Tash talked me into watching Thor, which I enjoyed enormously. And it reminded me of Adams' Thor, committing an Act of (a) God, when he can't catch a flight to Osl...
I found this second instalment of the adventures of Dirk Gently as funny as the first but in a less slap dash way. It seems that Adams has written a book with a real plot and it's a good one! It still has holes but it's just such a change to see one of his books have a real direction. I did find it ...
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