HILARIOUS. Great writing. FUNKY plot. Crazy

I have a funny history with this book. When I was young, my mom got the audio of this book on tapes from the library (yup I guess I’m getting old). Well, some how the first tape got lost and my mom had to the huge fine for a new tape. As these things all ways happen, we found the lost tape (uhhh why it was in my back pack in my room I don’t know). So we had the first part of this book on audio and I would listen to it while cleaning my room (the things kids growing up with loaded phones with internet will never understand). I have so much of this part of the book memorized in Adam’s voice from that tape. Every single time I walk in to an airport I say to my self “as pretty as an airport..”.

Later, in late junior high or early high school, I loaned a boy I had a crush on my paperback copy I’d owned at that point (hey! I couldn’t just live on the first couple chapters forever!) and that boy ended up losing my crappy paperback copy and bought me a hardback copy in return. I got upgraded! Thank you random boy crush! Anyways, read the book or better yet find the audio read by Adams. It’s a load of fun.

Der zweite Band ist auf jeden Fall etwas leichter zu durchschauen, wobei am Ende wieder viel miteinander verknüpft wurde auf die typische Douglas Adams Art. Manchmal würde ich mir wünschen, dass diese Erklärungen etwas länger wären, da es auch hier wieder sehr konfus wurde. Aber das Buch hat mir trotzdem gut gefallen. Wer den Erzählstil von Douglas Adams aus Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis mag, wird auch an den Dirk Gently Romanen Freude finden.

The second volume is definitely a little easier to understand, although a lot of things were linked together at the end in the typical Douglas Adams way. Sometimes I wish these explanations were a bit longer, as it got quite confusing again. But I still enjoyed the book. Anyone who likes the narrative style of Douglas Adams from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will also enjoy the Dirk Gently novels.

[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.)

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Adams' bizarre book is more of an adventure than a mystery, and more of a picaresque than an adventure. It's true, this plot wanders and is flimsy at times, but Adams always makes up for it with clever insights and hilarious jokes. Minor events mushroom at the end to unexpected relevance, a very bold literary move that would be a sign of laziness if these moves didn't work and we didn't recognize Adams' competence as a writer from the execution of his humor throughout. Fantasy readers and Adams' fans will have an easier time with some of the leaps in logic (such as what happens to a god when nobody believes in it), and most readers shouldn't expect a hardline plot after the first hundred pages of inaction and wild action. You go along with Adams because of his creativity, exhibited in such things as derogatory horoscopes, depressed deities and a philosophical calculater. His writing style is so absurd that, unless you don't hitch onto the entertainment value and profound ramifications, you ought to appreciate the absurd plotting that works as its product.

A crazy adventure...but a bit crude at times.

Adams addiction to mocking the every day mundane and inane just really tickles me. Like, every single time, I'm laughing at simple irreverence. I feel like Adams was the type of man that you really wanted to avoid slightly annoying because you would end up in one of his books, in a section about bistro math, or how no culture has the term "pretty as an airport."

LDTTS is a quick read, its hilarious, its probably the light-hearted thing that you are looking for that you dont even know you want.

Also, Britain, do you seriously not get pizza delivered? I mean, really? What century is this even?

Funny, but not as good as the Hitchhiker series!

Che non ci sia nemmeno un pizzico di buon senso (ma fantasia, comicità e orrore strisciante) risulta chiaro già dalla copertina (grazie Publishers Weekly), ma comunque non è abbastanza per preparare il lettore all'assurda possanza del delirio che attende tra le pagine. Memorabili i personaggi, tra cui uesto Dirk Gently, che oltre ad essere a mani basse il vincitore del premio per l'investigatore più strampalato ed inutile della storia della letteratura (l'ho già detto riguardo al libro precedente, vero?), riesce ad essere anche più assurdo e inadatto del suo omonimo della serie TV, il che è tutto dire.
Peccato che alla fine, la generosa dose di assenza di senso si sia ritorta contro Adams stesso ed ha tolto qualsiasi parvenza di possibilità per un'interpretazione semi-seria che si potesse fare sul finale o sul caso in se. In sostanza, non ci ho capito niente, e non sono nemmeno sicura che non facesse parte del piano...

After having read/struggled through hitchhikers guide and the next few of the series I was sure that Douglas Adams was just too much for me to handle. So, after having an insistent friend assure me that this book was not as hard on the mind, I decided to forsake my very morals and read a sequel before the first book

Entertaining, but not as good as the first one.