Dirk Gently: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Paperback)

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 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 Justatrekkiedrwhogirl

Thought I was ordering the series but that was my bad. I'll enjoy the book.

from TheDivineOomba

I read this a book a few times a long time ago as a teenager and I figured that I would revisit it. Its a fine book, fun, random, but on reading it this last time, it wasn't quite as magical. I think that its a fairly shallow book - its entertaining, the solution to the salt cellar, as provided ...