Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Too many not fully expanded ideas The concept of putting as many ideas as possible in as less book space as imaginable worked well for the hitchhiker, but in this case, it was too much, no I mean, less. It could have been an epic milestone like the ingenious hitchhiker series, but it is simply too s......more

I last read this when I was really young and was shortly getting off a fantastic kick of HHGttG wanting MORE, as, I assume, most people do when they get on a Douglas Adams kick. Like the other series, every page is filled with wonderfully witty and fascinating and wise (crack) quotes that will deligh......more

Is it an audacious thing to say that Mr. Douglas Adams is hit or miss? Yes. (Well, & "audacious" not really.) Good. Here is a fun (and I mean FUN) book, rife with what is absurd and comical in certain sciences that dictate what the world is--I know my math teacher in high school was mad about him. And......more

In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn A science fiction book decree With plot purloined from Doctor Who A cross between a witches' brew And a nice cup of tea. So several chapters serially were wrote Until the text was finished, good and whole A sovereign remedy or antidote Against the long dark teatime of the soul And th......more

I discovered Douglas Adams by coincidence. I found his book Last Chance to See, co-written by Mark Cawardine, about animals near extinction and Douglas' and Mark's trip around the world to see some of them, in a box with "Mängelexemplare" (old books, sometimes not in top condition that are therefore......more