Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

The skies still bulged with rain, but all that actually fell in the gathering evening gloom was a dreary kind of prickle. The storms of the day before, and of the day before that, and the floods of the previous week, had now abated. You can also get a copy at Barnes & Noble or Booksio, which is a charity-driven and woman-owned online book company.įor more of my writing on books, you can click here or check out the Menu at the top.This time there was just the dead earth, a rumble of thunder, and the onset of that interminable light drizzle from the northeast by which so many of the world’s most momentous events seem to be accompanied.

If you’d like to purchase a copy you can get it at and support independent bookstores across the USA. I suggest it as a palate cleanser before diving into some more serious or heart felt works. A Sherlock Holmesian Dr Whoesque sort of ladįor the most part, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is an enjoyable little ride into the comedic and absurd.At the half-way point everything speeds up, and um, happens.

You’ll likely find the first half to be a bit slow as you’re mostly reading about Richard. Um, I mean…ĭirk Gently’s features a small cast of characters, all of whom have their own strange features and behavioural eccentricities. The wilderness is vast and full of cosmic cheerios. Successfully, Adams and even Pratchett find a way to combine enough peculiarities together that people can giggle, sip their tea and turn the page. The whole point, perhaps, is how absurd something can be before you stop caring about it. Because his thing is that nothing really does fit. I like Douglas Adams’ way of incorporating the random, bizarre and new into his work without it seeming like it doesn’t fit. I’d put him into the same realm as writers like Terry Pratchett and Kurt Vonnegut, though I do think Vonnegut tries to say something with his work while the others are overall trying to have a good time writing, and give you one to boot. This story falls into the same sort of category as The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in the sense that it is absurd and quirky sci-fi. I needed a light and silly read to start off the new year, so I picked up Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams