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| Original Title: | The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul |
| ISBN: | 0671742515 (ISBN13: 9780671742515) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dirk Gently #2 |
| Characters: | Dirk Gently, Thor, Kate Schechter |
| Setting: | United Kingdom London, England |
Douglas Adams
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 307 pages Rating: 4.06 | 74309 Users | 1814 Reviews
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When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this to do with Dirk's latest--and late-- client, found only this morning with his head revolving atop the hit record "Hot Potato"? Amid the hostile attentions of a stray eagle and the trauma of a very dirty refrigerator, super-sleuth Dirk Gently will once again solve the mysteries of the universe...
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| Title | : | The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently #2) |
| Author | : | Douglas Adams |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | February 15th 1991 by Pocket Books (first published October 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Humor. Mystery. Comedy. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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Ratings: 4.06 From 74309 Users | 1814 ReviewsAppraise Out Of Books The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently #2)
Lots of hilarious moments, though the pacing's not quite up to the level set in the first Dirk Gently book. The ending especially feels rushed - he spends a long time building up this fantastic web of complexity, and then rips it down with a climax and ending that together are barely longer than "But it all worked out okay in the end."But, as a math student working through too many proofs right now, I really love Dirk's way of thinking! ...especially his reversal of Sherlock-Holmes-style logic:If this title does not speak to you, then perhaps this book is not for you. I loved it.
How do you describe Adams' Dirk Gently books? I have a hard time not because they can't be genre-classified but because they don't fit any novel form out there. Stream-of-consciousness on the part of the author? Is Gently the main character? Who is the main character? What is going on? There's one thing going on, though--Adams does a lot of describing. It's a wealth of description. Plot? Pish-tosh! We don't need no stinking plot! That's not why you read an Adams novel anyway. So just let Adams
20,000 ratings, 500 reviews? Why bother to add another one to the masses? You don't need me to tell you to read this book, if you've gotten this far you're either already a fan of Adams or like me you picked it up because of the moody title and should have now found out that it's a sequel to the original Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Fear not, you don't really need to have read the other one to enjoy this additional piece of absurdity from Douglas Adams. Instead I'll make five points
[Short review from memory until I re-read at a later date](Memories of this is that it was extremely funny and very enjoyable. I can't imagine why I only gave it three stars, but there must have been a reason. In my head Dirk will always look like Stephen Mangan now.)
Unlike his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series (a collection of humorous vignettes without much of a plot, continuity, or character development), Douglas Adams Dirk Gently series (two novels and some sketches for a third one, included in the Salmon of Doubt) is in fact literature of the first degree. In the second novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Dirk Gently, a private holistic investigator (an eccentric slob, perpetually broke, capricious, silly, and wonderfully insightful), while
This is one of my favorite books of all time. I will re-read or re-listen to it at least once a year and even though I know the story backwards and forwards, it never fails to entertain me.
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