Well now I'm doubtful of salmon or is it something else, a brilliant book by the master himself. Dirk Gently is a fabulous character construct as is the interconnectedness of all things. A holistically great book - Read it!!

I bought this book as soon as the paperback edition was published and it lay unread for well over a year. Robert Louis Stevenson said that, “to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,” and I felt to have one last Douglas Adams book to look forward to would be better than to actually read it. If you are holding back from reading this book for the same reason then you really are missing out. Every week I wasted by leaving this great book on the shelf unread could have been better spent in anticipation of looking forward to reading it again!

I have read and reread this book now and like all of Douglas’s writing it never fails to make me roar with laughter. Broken down into three sections - inevitably titled Life, The Universe and Everything - by Peter Guzzardi it contains speeches, interviews, magazine articles as well at chapters from the unfinished book that shares the title.

The Salmon of Doubt itself stops abruptly and contains many ideas that had not been fully developed, but there is enough material there to satisfy any fan of Douglas Adams and his work. It is clear that Douglas’s world famous procrastination was not the reason he struggled with this book; but the fact there are at least two books mixed in there. Parts of the text are quite clearly a Dirk Gently novel - not surprising considering the fact he is the main character - and other parts have the feel of Hitchhikers, which Douglas was about to rectify just weeks before his untimely death at the ridiculously young age of 49.

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I liked Adam’s short stories & essays better than the actual detective plots of this series. That said, I really admire his ability to weave science, the universe, fiction & literature into vivid storylines.