I'd give it a 6 star rating if I could!!! | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Yet another great Adams book | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams

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	• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams Pocket, 1991 - 306 pages average customer review:based on 97 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very Good Book

Douglas Adams' "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" is an old book, but still a very good one. I'd last read it about 20 years ago and, with this reading, found that it's weathered the intervening decades very well. It's a well-thought-out book with very good humor in the vein of his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What also strikes me is how similar the writing style is to Terry Pratchett's and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. If you like either of those books, you'll definitely like this one. I rate it a Very Good 4 stars out of 5.

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I'd give it a 6 star rating if I could!!!

"Dirk Gently" is a combination of ghost, horror, detective, time-travel, and romantic comedy.

His Detective agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies, but then is stumbles into a four-billion year old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction.

This audio is a BBC 4 full cast dramatisation and is BRILLIANTLY done.

I am giving this audio a 5 star (but I would give it a 6 star if I could). I will be listening to more of his works.

Yet another great Adams book

A must read for anyone in the computer business or just loves an extremely well written comedy.

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Not Adams' best, but fun nonetheless!

"Today I got you to tell me every last detail you knew about what happened last night, and already, as a result, using my intellect alone I have uncovered possibly the greatest secret lying hidden on this planet." (Excerpt)

Fans of Adams' Hitchhiker series knows that Adams loves taking things to epic proportions. The Dirk Gently collection follows that vein.

This book was written after Adams' fourth book in his Hitchhiker trilogy (yes, fourth). By then Adams has a clear style (quirky characters, silly yet smart humor) and a noted cynicism of religion (thus the Electric Monk character who "believes all kinds of things, more or less at random").

This wasn't my favorite Adams book, but it was still clever, funny and engaging. Dirk Gently is bizarrely fascinating (though we don't really meet him until halfway through) and his holistic agency (focusing on the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things") shows Adams' incredible range of knowledge.

Overall, it was a fun read.

ONE IMPORTANT NOTE:
I was not familiar with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" before reading this, and I was left slightly confused in parts as a result. It plays a role in the story. You will miss much of the book's nuance if you don't know the poem (and maybe its background) beforehand.

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There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.