Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

from Dickon.Edwards

Slight spoilers! Not quite as stuffed with jokes and dazzling flights of the imagination as the Hitchhiker's Guide novels, but there's still plenty to enjoy here. There's the brilliant idea of the Electric Monk, the simple comedy of a bored horse found in unlikely places (an idea later used by St...

from keristars

This has always been my favorite of Douglas Adams's books. I'm not entirely sure what makes it so much better than the popular Hitchhiker series, at least for me, but for imagery and jokes that really stick in my subconscious and remain with me as more than pop culture touchstones, it's Dirk Gent...

from deslni01

Douglas Adams brought something unique to the detective novel most are familiar with by infusing Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency with quantum mechanics, time-travel, ghosts and aliens. The result is a fairly entertaining, quick read wrought with puzzles and quirky British humor - that and...

from bookworm12

Time travel, a detective agency, Dodo birds, ghosts, Electric monks; this book is a hodgepodge of sci-fi elements and the bizarre, which is to say it's a novel by Douglas Adams. I'm a huge fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and so I've been looking forward to this one for years. T...

from ElectricRay

A very, very, stripped down dramatisation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - it would have been unrecognisable had not Stephen Mangan made such an excellent Dirk - recently showed on the BBC. It prompted me to go out and re-buy a book - the same edition, no less - that I last owned twen...