Even though this is a bit of a mishmash of collected notes, interviews, and rough drafts pulled from Adams’s beloved Mac computers, it was sooo good to hear his voice again. Adams’s writing is so uniquely him - it doesn’t matter if he’s writing something as mundane as a shopping list, he imbues life and humor into it and it becomes suddenly clearly and beautifully connected to the world. There’s a reason that he’s known for writing about life, the universe, and everything. It was an incredibly sad day when we lost him at the young age of 49 - he’s one of my all-time favorite authors and could have created so much more. I read this for Book Riot’s 2018 “Read Harder” challenge, task #1: a book published posthumously.

I went into this thinking I was getting a 300 pg Dirk Gently story... guess I should have read some reviews of it first... cuz that is noty what this book was mostly. It was interesting but just not what I was hoping for.

Potrei scrivere un fiume di parole su quanto apprezzi l'Adams scrittore e l'uomo, quanto condivida le sue idee (a parte sulla Apple, ma se vedesse cosa è diventata credo si schiferebbe anche lui)e su quanto la sua scomparsa mi rattristi molto più di quanto sarebbe lecito aspettarsi. Ma non è il caso.

Questo libro raccoglie tante interviste, aneddoti ed idee che raccontano molto su chi era Adams; quindi se avete apprezzato i suoi libri e desiderate scoprire qualcosa su di lui è la lettura giusta.
Inoltre contiene la prima bozza incompiuta del nuovo romanzo di Dirk Gently.. e accidenti non saprò mai che cavolo doveva combinare con quel rinoceronte!

Part memoir, part random thoughts, part story ideas, and part salmon of doubt. This was quite interesting even if it didn't have a full story in it.