It is the greatest tragedy of British literature that Douglas Adams is famous for the wrong books. The Hitch Hicker's Guide To The Galaxy was a massive best seller, and subsequently the basis for a succesful movie, but his later writing, imbued with the same surreal sense of humor, was much fuller and more rounded.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the story of a private detective who is half conman and half quantum-prophet, and who sets out to prove the interconnectedness of all things by, amongst other things, convincing the old ladies of London that the whereabouts of their missing cats can best be assertained by a search of the beaches of the carribean, payed for on expenses of course.
When he bumps into an old friend who has been falsely accused of a very peculiar murder he sets out to use his unorthodox methods to save his friend. And via a whole lot of comedy strangeness involving an electric monk and a displaced 19th century poet, and with the often hilarious commentary of Douglas Adams as the narrator, he not only clears his friends name, but inadvertantly saves the entire human race from extinction along the way.
This is a light hearted read that cannot fail to make you smile at the very least, and made me laugh out loud in places.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Posted in Humor by kepher 245 days ago (http://www.amazon.com)
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