The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams: No Hot Potato! (916 words)
by FairyWBO - written on 10.11.03 (Very useful, 103 readings)
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For a long time now I have been meaning to get myself a Dirk Gently book... as a long time fan of Douglas Adams I couldn't understand how these had slipped me by, so when I saw this sitting on the 40p shelf in a local charity shop I snatched it up! Having grown up with Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (H2G2) in both TV and book format (missed out on the radio show) and generally being impressed with Adams in general.... I mean this man worked on Dr Who, invented the best name in the universe ever for a character (Slartibartfast) and was generally a normal bloke with a wicked sense of humour! I knew I was in for a treat. So I settled down to read a bit of my ...

Dirk Gently Returns (553 words)
by Nomad - written on 15.09.00 (Very useful, 193 readings)
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*** 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. *** It's not easy being a Norse god. Thor is having a particularly hard time coming to terms with the fact that Norse gods simply aren't required any more and instead of accepting it and moving into a comfortable retirement home, he is trying to do something about it. Taking control of Asgard, the home of the gods, would be a good place to start. But being the god of thunder doesn't cut the mustard these days. At least not with the staff of a check-in desk at ...

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams: Vallhalla and the exploding check-in desk. (341 words)
by Azurel - written on 07.04.02 (Useful, 131 readings)
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This book is the second that Douglas Adams has written about Dirk Gently (the first was Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency). It was written after the 5 part trilogy(?) of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and although the humour is similar its definitely not the same sort of idea. Kate Schechter first meets the rather angry, not to mention lost, Norse god (Thor) at the check-in desk at Heathrow Airport. Kate then misses her plane to Oslo and just as she is about to leave the airport the check-in desk she and Thor were at explodes, leaving her in a bruised heap on the floor and the Norse god no where to be seen. Of course no one realises that the god ...