Douglas Adams: Two Complete Novels

by Douglas Adams

Book Overview

Two quirky detective stories from Britain's best sci-fi writer and author of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams. Dirk Gently is a detective - well, a sort of detective. There is a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517119129
• ISBN13: 9780517119129
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

One amazing novel, Another a little boring

Dirk Gently is probably Douglas Adam's best written book and has an extremely well defined plot. The humor as good as ever, I laughed out loud on many occassions. The notion of "fundamental interconnectedness of things" that Adams introduces in this book is quite powerful and yet quite humorous. The problem of the stuck couch in an impossible position, missing cats, ancient professors in universities, an electric monk - a multiple set of oddities all fall into place into a great pattern. I found Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul a bit boring. It is interesting in parts but on the whole there's not much new stuff in what Adams says. On the whole the book is a great buy - if you liked Hitchhiker's series at all, you would most certainly love Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Guaranteed.

Literary slapstick in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut

Douglas Adams, the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, followed up with the most whimsical character I have "met" since reading Vonnegut, and like Vonnegut, creates a slapstick creation for mankind. There are an alien or two, eccentric college professors, a Electric Monk, and many other labor-saving devices to be found in the two books. Roaring funny - if you like slapstick characters - the Dirk Gently books poke fun at everything from Apple Computer to Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity. Since these books were originally published, some of the jokes have aged, but their recent re-discovery was worth the trip all over again.Dirk Gently is a detective who thinks nothing of charging his clients for a spontaneous trip to the Bahamas, because of his "holistic" approach to investigations. Everything is connected, you see, so he - well, investigates everything. The ride is fast, daring, and you won't anticipate what will happen around the next turn. Adams has penned a carnival ride that approximates the best of Vonnegut, and a joy these many years later.Having not read the Hitchhiker's Guide books for some time, I will confess that I actually enjoyed the Gently books a bit more, as the writing is much faster paced, the lunacy a little more looney (with the possible exception of "So Long and Thanks for All The Fish"), and the names much easier to remember.One of my favorite books.

Best book ever

Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency is my favorite book EVER. You cannot read this book once for a start, and each subsequent read gets better! Funny to the point of hysterical at times, these books are the best comedy sci-fi you will find.

MODERN DAY MIXED WITH MYTHOLOGY, I LOVED IT!

I ENJOYED THE STORY LINE AND PLOT. I LOVED THE INTERACTION BETWEEN GODS AND MODERN LIFE. I TRUELY ENJOYED IT.

DOUGLAS ADAMS THE MAN THE MYTH

MY FAVORITE ''sci-fi'' WRITER OF ALL TIME FROM HITCHHIKERS TILL' NOW ADAMS' HUMOR AND, HONESTLY PUT,WIERD TRUISMS CAUGHT ME FROM THE WORDS ''in the begining'' . AND SINCE I'M NOT HUMAN THAT SHOULD BE A PLUS FOR ALL OF YOU SMALL UNSIGHTLY CREATURES WHO CALL YOURSELVES ORGANISMS WHY, YOUR ALL NO BETTER THAN THAT PROSTENTIC VOGON JELTZ!!!! ANYWHO THIS BOOK IS THE STUFF THAT MAKES THE UNIVERSE GO ROUND.