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ISBN: 9780434009190

Douglas Adams

Dirk Gently is a detective - well, a sort of detective. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, howev

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Following themes of zany space exploration, time travel, and mystery, two novels that examine the dimensions of the universe and the human soul feature Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

Two Complete Novels

Kirsten Simkiss

As I have left individual reviews on the individual books, this is more a review of the two books combined as a series.

As always, I enjoy Douglas Adams's sense of humor. I truly love his funny, quotable anecdotes about the little things in society that just happen to be unspoken truths. He has a way of putting things into a particular perspective, if only for a moment, that is both so true and so funny that it really sticks in your mind.

Overall, this book series was not one I particularly loved as much as I'd hoped. Dirk Gently is almost an idiot savant, in a way, and the plots are fairly non sequitur. If you're like me and you try to predict where plots are going from the beginning, good luck with that one because these plots barely come together in the end. I found the second book's plot to be more stable, but I enjoyed the characters less in that book than I did in the first. Still, there was plenty about them to enjoy and if Adams's style of humor is your long dark cup of tea, definitely don't give this one a miss.