Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Written by Douglas Adams
Narrated by Douglas Adams
3/5
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About this audiobook
From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, comes a wildly inventive novel of ghosts, time travel, and one detective's mission to save humanity from extinction.
DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime
We find the whole person
Phone today for the whole solution to your problem
(Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty)
Douglas Adams, the "master of wacky words and even wackier tales" (Entertainment Weekly) once again boggles the mind with a completely unbelievable story of ghosts, time travel, eccentric computer geniuses, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the end of the world, and-of course-missing cats.
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.
Reviews for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If this was an audiobook I would think I had accidentally skipped forward multiple times. But it wasn't and yet I'm still not sure I didn't. This was a trip, highly amusing, but difficult to follow at times. Ultimately I really enjoyed it but it didn't capture me in the same ways other works of his have.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Powerful, moving, and utterly hilarious. Join Dirk Gently (the world's most hypocritical detective) on his epic quest to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. From disgruntled ghosts to Electric Monks, this book will have you laughing from start to finish.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I actually prefer this to the hitchikers guide 'trilogy'. Telling the story of a very perculiar and sterotyped decective, the pages are full of witticism, irony and the laughs you always expect for douglas adams.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great series. Always want Pizza Hut for some reason
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Electric Monks, hypnotism, ghosts, salt shaker magic tricks, old college professors, a music magazine and then a dodo bird - what do they all have in common? I don't know - that's why I read this book. It wasn't as comedic as "Hitchhiker's" but obviously still fun. Highly enjoyable, good characters and amazingly random:)
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was an OK book, occasionally funny but not as great as I'd hoped it would be. It's been a long time since I read any Douglas Adams, and I think this might have appealed more to me when I was a teenager.