Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Kindle Edition

The first book in what promised to be a fantastic series, stands on its own as a fine example of what a good writer Douglas Adams was. It's plotting and characters are memorable, and there are moments that are laugh-out-loud funny. The problem is not with this first book. It's a more mature piece of writing than Hitchhiker was, and more cohesively done--but it really didn't have as good a follow-up.If you want to see anything that even resembles the two television series that are available, you won't find it in this book. Whoever produced those apparently only read the jacket blurbs and not the actual novels. Which is too bad. Because the books ARE better than both British-made and American-made films. The books will startle you by how utterly divorced they are from both.They did Adams a real disservice by doing that, but don't miss this novel because it isn't like the movie. This one is very, very good.

I love all of Douglas Adam's books so it will come as no surprise I enjoyed this one too. As with all his other novels, the central character in this one is a bit of a wacky, eccentric sort who has a few gifts and has decided to play detective in order to capitalize on the gullability of his clients.I just loved reading this book and the other "Dark Tea- time Of the Soul". They are just great, easy to read, funny, enjoyable and light fun reads that make me wish so much that Douglas Adam's had remained alive longer so we could have had even more pleasure enjoying his unique way of constructing a good yarn.I wont go into the plot here, many paople know this book backwards as do I. I have read it a multitude of times over the years and intend to carry on doing so every couple of years.Just enjoy it, it is an utterly unique style of book, juts like all the others in the Hitch-Hikers series. Thanks for reading my review!!

Douglas Adams' brilliant detective novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency is brought to life in the same spirit as his Hitch Hiker's Guide series.However where with HHG we have a radio series transformed into a novel, in Dirk Gently we have the opposite. It's an entertaining romp using borrowed plot points from the unfinished Doctor Who story "Shada". Combining Time Travel, murder, possesion, and the interconnectedness of all things the novel and audio play create an enjoyable story to read and/or listen too.I found this production actually easier to sit through then the book itself. Having been streamlined and reaaranged a bit to better fit the format of an audio drama. The cast is brilliant, special praise for Billy Boyd. A choice for Richard Mcduff I wouldn't have expected. I guess in my head he sounded different when I first read the book, but Billy Boyd takes the character well beyond anything I imagined.Great overall if you can find a copy.

There’s no doubt that the writing here is Douglas Adams. Clever and quick dialogue mixed with strange happenings. Dirk was a very fun character. But the first third of the book before he was introduced took me forever to get through. I really barely knew what i was reading. The payoff is good in the end when you see what the purpose of that first third was, but even still, the writing, to me, was dense and slow going. I might read another in the series just because I’ve always loved the other Douglas Adams that I’ve read, and I’d like to see if I’d like this more now that dirk has already been introduced, but I’ll wait a bit before I do.

There are a few minor word substitusions that vary from the original paper text. Some one who is a Douglas Adams die hard should proof read this Kindle version and take some notes to the publisher but other than that I could not be more thrilled.I AM AN ENTHUSIASTIC FAN OF DOUGLAS ADAMSI have read all of his books an embarassing number of times and probably always will . . . until I am so old all that comes to mind are memories of smells and earrings . . . (read the book).I am greatful for the low price of these two Dirk Gently books I must say.I wanted these two books on Kindle so badly that for years, every week, I would click the "I want to Read This On Kindle" button" as I went about my other explorations on Amazon. I have no Idea if it helped. I like to think I single handedly caused these great reads to become available on Kindle. Probably not. I probably only got one vote.Because of the puzzling and bloody minded way the universe works, the interconnectedness of all things as it were, probably what had the most effect was my bloody minded photographing each page of a hard bound copy of this book so I could read it on my iPhone. Dambed if I didn't get twenty or so pages in to this mad project and during the same week the Kindle version came on the market.Never underestimate the power of harmless crazy behavior. ( and or the interconnectedness of all things).PS: viewing this Kindle book on a color capable device, iPad etc., the publisher has done an exemplery job of reproducing the original cover graphics; the book cover looks great ! Thank you. That is a pet peive of mine. I pay for a book and usually they provide some generic and ugly stand in.

Great book. Interesting read.

I have never laughed this much reading a book. I love reading D.A.

Assisti à série na Netflix e fiquei apaixonado! O livro é excelente, leitura cativante e envolvente! Recomendo a todos. Leitura imperdível

Buen libro, el detalle es que viene en inglés completamente y yo no me dí cuenta, pero me sirve para animarme a aprender.

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