This book was billed as Dirk Gently 3, but that is not the case.

There are a handful of chapters of wha would have been the third book, however the great man passed away before completion.

If I wanted to read a book of DNA's interviews or writings I probably would have given this a higher score.

A good send-off for Douglas Adams.

This book is pretty skippable. I love Douglas Adams, and there are a few small gems of his in here, but there's a lot that's distracting and even the excerpt of the (unfinished) Salmon of Doubt was unsatisfying since it lacked context or an actual story.

I am a bigger fan of Douglas Adam's musings than his outlandish fiction style. Sorry Hitchhiker fans

Just finished listening to the audio version (read initially immediately after the ink was dry). Two things come to mind:
1. This is not Dirk #3, and
2. I miss DNA.
3. I was wrong to originally only award this a 4
42: I may have mentioned #2 before

(Numbering system courtesy of DNA)

First read shortly after publication, I vaguely remember being disappointed that there was so little Dirk Gently there. Upon rereading, I have the same disappointment.

Contains some nice bits and bobs published elsewhere, from reviews to anecdotes, and 10 chapters of what would likely have coalesced into a third Dirk Gently novel. Like earlier installments, it starts as individual unrelated fragments, unlike those, we never get to see the whole.

I’ve been putting off reading this book for a while, because I knew the Dirk Gently story was unfinished and I knew not having a conclusion would bother me. And I was correct. But I’m still very very happy I read it, because it was very very funny. I like reading stories about Dirk.

Even though the 11 chapters of The Salmon of Doubt was at the end of this anthology-type book, it’s what I read first because it’s what I was most excited about, I still really enjoyed the rest of it when I read it. I wasn’t actually expecting myself to, but Douglas Adams was an incredibly funny man with some seriously hot takes and questionable opinions that I sometimes agree with and sometimes don’t. A lot of the content in this is utterly ridiculous, and some of it really thought provoking.

Anyway, I have laughed out loud reading this book, and if you are a fan of Dirk Gently and/or Douglas Adams this is definitely worth reading.

I resisted reading this for a long time because I was under the misapprehension that it was merely a presentation of the sections of the Dirk Gently novel Adams was working on until his untimely death in 2001. Having seen multiple references to it in Neil Gaiman's excellent Hitchhiker's companion, Don't Panic, I finally broke down and got it from the library, and I was glad that I did.

The last third of the book does indeed contain the unfinished Salmon of Doubt, but that was to my mind the least interesting part of the book and could (and perhaps should) have been left out. Adams didn't yet know where he was going with it, and in fact, he was apparently thinking of changing it from a Dirk Gently novel to one set in the Hitchhiker's universe. The first two-thirds of the book comprise many different writings by Adams on topics ranging from computers (his beloved Macintoshes) to how to make tea to his atheism, as well as speeches, letters, and interviews with Adams. It's really an eye-opening look at the wide-ranging intellect and knowledge that underlies the seeming frivolity and true hilarity of his books.

A posthumous collection of writing recovered from Douglas Adams’s various Apple computers, plus 11 chapters of an unfinished Dirk Gently novel. I preferred the earlier essays and fragments. But the Dirk Gently stuff is quite interesting because it’s a sequel to The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. It has provided me with further oxygen and direction for my Douglas Adams deep-dive.

Otostopçunun Galaksi Rehberi'nin son kitabı olarak pazarlanan Kuşkucu Somon'u severlerine tavsiye etmem. DNA'nın gazete yazılarından oluşuyor 3/4'ü. Son hikaye olan Kuşkucu Somon ise DNA'nın Dirk Gently karakterine ait bitmemiş bir hikaye. Devam kitabı denmesinin tek nedeni ise DNA'nın bu hikaye daha çok Otostopçu'ya benzedi ona evrilebilir diye bir açıklaması olması vakti zamanında.. Anısına okumak isteyen okusun tabii.

What a delight to revisit the mind of Douglas Adams. I like that this is a collection of emails, speeches, one-liners, and rants. Yes, there's the start of a novel in there, that he may or may not have intended to call the Salmon of Doubt.
The result is so much better than it sounds like it's going to be: Douglas Adams died, but his buddy knew his password and emptied his Mac onto a CD, the various unfinished writings were lightly edited and printed as this.
But gosh, am I ever glad that they did, because there's some exceptional writing in here, hilARious, as he always was, and glitteringly insightful. His projections on the future of technology, from the 90's, are pretty brilliant, and the piece de resistance is the speech to Cambridge on the purpose of God.

Eulogies, interviews, and some unfinished pieces from Adams. It does make you sad about the loss of a brilliant mind.