Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams Reviews

This has to be the strangest book I have ever read, but is also one of the funniest. The detective appears half-way through the novel, so this should tell you what the book is like. Dirk Gently, rather than dealing with just one or two mundane murders like Poirot has to solve a puzzle which threatens the whole human race. He only ...  Read the complete review

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is described by the author as “a thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic” and certainly lives up to all of these claims, improbable as that may seem. A modern detective tale based firmly in the paranormal, Douglas Adams has created another very interesting and ...  Read the complete review

DOUGLAS ADAMS - DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY ------------------------------------------------------- So here i am, sat awake at a stupidly late hour, i cant sleep, which is pretty much how every night goes, well i thought to myself, why not read a good book, so completly at random i decided to pick up one of my ...  Read the complete review

Imagine that you've gone to visit an old tutor at University. There's a horse in his bathroom. Then on the way home, you think you drive through your employer's ghost. On returning, you break into your girlfriend's flat to steal the messages from her answering machine, are phoned by a bloke you knew at Uni, and go home to a ...  Read the complete review

Do you like science fiction?, do you love humourous Science Fiction?, do you like really original humourous science fiction?, well then you've come to the right place! Written by Douglas Adams (and if you didn't know a writer I adore), the same author of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective ...  Read the complete review

I have never read any other books buy Adams (although I have seen the TV series), and only bought it as I was in a second hand book shop and I liked the title, and I never looked at the name of the author. Moving onto the story itself (as I assume I should), it is based around Dirk Gently (hey I wonder where the title came from), and his ...  Read the complete review

I must confess that I approached the Dirk Gently stories with high expectations. As an avid fan of Hitchhikers (et al) I was expecting the same skill and humour to be in the stories of Dirk Gently. I was a bit disappointed. Douglas Adams is a man capable of subtle (and not so subtle) humour, the forerunner of Terry Pratchett but he did ...  Read the complete review

*** The following review was written in September 2000. I have left the review untouched but have placed an update at the end to cover any changes since it was written. *** I must admit I came across this book somewhat by accident. I had heard of Douglas Adams for his 'Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy' books (a ...  Read the complete review

When I read this I had already read the first four books of the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy trilogy and must admit that I did enjoy it. But it is a long way from being the best book I have ever read. The story line does get a bit difficult to follow at times and Dirks motives do not always seem to have been thought out properly by ...  Read the complete review

I waited for this one with baited breath, coming as it did from my favourite author at the time. I even managed to get my copy signed. But I think I was waiting for more Hitchhiker's Guide, which this isn't. Dirk Gently runs a detective agency which is holistic in the sense that he assumes a link between everything in the ...  Read the complete review

I came to this book with very high expectations. After all, Douglas Adams is the man behind the Hitch-Hikers guide to the Galaxy, one of the funniest comedys of all time. Moreover, he had had years to produce this book - how could it not be god-like comedy? Naturally, it isn't. Hitchhikers evolved over a long time, first on the radio, ...  Read the complete review