Science Fiction Books > Douglas Adams Science Fiction Books

Hitch Hikers wasnt Adams' only book y'know.

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 ...

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Stranger than science fiction

Advantages: very funny
Disadvantages: bitty at the outset

Imagine that you've gone to visit an old tutor at University. There's a horse in his bathroom. Then on the way home, you think you drive through your employer's ghost. On returning, you break into your girlfriend's flat to steal the messages from her answ ...

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Review of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

Thumpingly good

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

Do you like science fiction?, do you love humourous Science Fiction?, do you like really original humourous science fiction?, well then you've come to the right place! Written by Douglas Adams (and if you didn't know a writer I adore), the same author ...

seagulls-lost-horizon 03.07.2001 · Read full review
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Dirk Gently so good it hurts

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,

This book will ring a bell with any Doctor Who fans, its based in part on the City of Death script(also by Adams), but don't let this put you off, its much more than this, it is a groovy, off the wall, quirky and marvellous book that will change your life ...

Raybid 24.06.2001 · Read full review
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Impressive.

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

This is a seriously impressive work. The first eight chapters are all completely unrelated. And I mean completely - some of them aren't even set on the planet. And yet, by the end of the novel, all the disparate threads have been drawn together into a ...

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