Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

DOUGLAS ADAMS - DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY ------------------------------------------------------- So here i am, sat awake at a stupidly late hour, i cant sleep, which is pretty much how every night goes, well i thought to myself, why not read a good book, so completly at random i decided to pick up one of my old favourites, Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency. This is the first book in a trilogy which sadly never got finished ...
...fans didnt really take to Dirk Gently quite as well, this is a shame because there is actually a much more balanced storyline running through these books. The main reason most didnt take to this is that it didnt contain any of the Hitch hikers crew, or happen in space, but what it does have is great writing and an interesting if a tad confusing storyline. The story is about Richard Macduff, and a lot of strange things that occur around him, such ...

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...police on his tail, and Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency pressing its case. To complicate matters, there's an electric monk riding round on a horse randomly believing in things (for a while he believes everything is the same shade of pink, which makes moving about rather tricky.) There are strange Cambridge dons with weird secrets, and a threat to the wellbeing of the plant, oh, and some ghosts, a spaceship, a time machine, and a dead computer ...
...Detective Agency" starts out as a very bitty piece of writing, and proceeds to make only limited sense for a long time, before eventually all the threads pull together. It is however very witty (more so since the rise of microsoft) and very easy to read. Well, it is easy to read if you have any idea what Mr Adams is talking about. Douglas Adams likes to borrow ideas from elsewhere, which only works for the reader if you know what he's talking about. ...

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...Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is almost more of the same, but not quite, however it is just as good. It was due to my love of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy that I came to read this book, and with great sadness that I’ve just read it again in respect to Douglas Adams who died recently. Its described on the back cover, and by the author as ‘A thumplingly good detective-ghost-horror-who ...
...good description. Dirk is a detective, a holistic one, and his idea of detection is not by looking for fingerprints, following clues and the silly things that the police usually do, but believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things to solve the problems that people bring to him. Which means that all things are connected to each other, and only by looking at the whole crime can it be solved. This pretty well sums up the plot because ...

seagulls-lost-horizon 03.07.2001 (30.08.2001) · Read full review
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...backwards? The main character Dirk is a role model for all oddball misfits with attitude out there, he uses holisitic (apparently unconnected acts all have some significance, chaos theory that sort of thing) methods and dextrous wordplay to come to some absolutely great conclusions, for example when lost he picks a car at random and follows it, in the sure knowledge that even if it is not going where he initially wanted to, it may well be going ...
...works. The book is as funny as all of Douglas Adams stuff is, (VERY) , and is one of the few books that I have read a number of times and has a special plot on my bookshelf. So if you loved the hhgttg series, get this, read it, buy an I Ching calculator and live your life a different, more holistic way... ...

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...about Dirk Gently, who runs a strange (holistic) detective agency. He's taken on by an old friend of his, who is accused of murdering his boss. This is when things start to get strange.... I found this hard to put down - certainly one of Douglas Adams' better works. ...

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