Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams > Reviews

Advantages: Great funny read. Nice charactures.
Disadvantages: Not as well known as Hitch-Hikers.

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 ... Read review

Advantages: very funny
Disadvantages: bitty at the outset

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining and fun
Disadvantages: Not quite what it seems

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Douglas Adams wrote it, very clever plot, satisfying coming together of diverse oddness
Disadvantages: it is a finite experiance, as are all books, shame really,

...was written 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 ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent plot, amusing characters
Disadvantages: Hard to understand the plot first time through.

...together. Nominally, the story is 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. ... Read review