This book is just hilarious! I loved the style of writing, the characters, and the plots. My favorite book would have to be the second one since it is about Norse mythology.

Now whenever I go to a hospital, I look a little for Odin and get all excited when I find a room labeled 'Linen'. Mr. Adams did a marvelous job and I loved these books.

Enjoyable writing style and great humor, but the endings were neither satisfying nor did they make any sense. Some segments went on for too long. (I didn't need three entire pages of Thor throwing his hammer around and making noise, to no effect.)

The First Novel (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) - ***:
Funny in parts, but never draws you in. The interconnectedness of all things makes for seamingly unconnected chapters and characters. Only when the mystery is solved is it clear how everything is connected. Nowhere near as good and funny as the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.

The Second Novel (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul) - **:
After the first Dirk Gently novel you know what you are getting yourself into, and that things will make some sort of sense at the end even though things are weird and unconnected. In this one some of the connections are a bit more clear. There is less humour, at least for me. And the 'resolution' is not as satisfying as in the first novel, especially since I am not fully sure there was a full resolution.

Quirky but very entertaining!!

I adored the first two books in the series [as audiobooks] but was unable to get the third in the same format from my wonderful library. I have been lugging this heavy book with me for several days, but by Odin it was worth it.
Odin, Thor and several other gods are on earth and not adapting well. This leads to lots of mayhem for Dirk Gently and others.
I found myself giggling away on public transport while reading this book.

I really have no idea what happened in this book. The story was all over the place. I feel like I'm going to have to revisit this one just to make heads or tails of it.

Меко казано съм впечатлен . Изключително забавни и същевремено смислено безмислени случки и в двете части на тази уникална книга . Определено ще прочета още от Автора .
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For the first time, again.

There is nothing, or mostly nothing, that can't be seen again after a considerable passage of time as if seen for the first time. It's not that it's startlingly new,because there's the lingering image from the first encounter,although faint and growing fainter by the day. The fainting image forms a weak template so that the reader.or at least this reader, has an interesting experience such as "funny, I didn't notice that before" or "so that's how it worked" to "nah, not this time." So you keep reading and wondering if you'll finish these books before more are published only to realize that the only time machine outside your mind that would allow you to think about Adams's future is in Reg's rooms at Cambridge and it broke at the same time as British Telecom fixed the phone.

I'm quite a fan of Douglas Adams, but I thought that both of the stories in this collection were quite weak. They bumble along good-heartedly, then the end happens, with no real solution to the problem presented, just a sort of "It happens offscreen" feeling.

I suppose it's some of the ideas that I have enjoyed most in Adams' books. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency the ghost leaving a voicemail message, the sofa stuck in the stairwell, the professor using his space and time travel machine to try and amuse a child at a formal dinner.

At best the ideas can be so funny that you can ignore the plot which can become safely incidental  or an allowable weakness as I might say if I was feeling unaccountably technical one fine day , purely a device for delivering jokes and tall stories.

Here though I can't help noticing that the plot depends on one person telling another to 'shoot off'. But as that's not idiomatic the whole thing falls apart, and more importantly, I noticed the author trying to stick his story together badly.

The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul I found less amusing than the first Dirk Gently book, still however a nice read that has some fine moments including a fridge as the battleground of wills between Gently and his cleaner. The business of the Norse gods living in reduced circumstances reminded me of Heine's story about the gods in exile except stretched out to become the backdrop to an entire novel. Oddly enough when I remember reading the Heine story I recall the feeling that the story was even then too long and it might have been better just as a very short joke...

I don’t like this book as much as I like his other books, and the story felt really incomplete with no resolution. But as usual Douglas Adams is fun to read which at the star rating.

I really love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and couldn't put that book down. While this book is just as weird and wonderful - I definitely still prefer Hitchhiker's. I also absolutely love the Dirk Gently TV show which I must admit is nothing like the books which might have clouded my judgment a little. Overall, I thought the book was funny and quirky like Adams' other works but not my 100% favourite.