Astoundingly Brilliant (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams)

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Product:	The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
Date:	30/07/08 (22 review reads)
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Advantages: Insightful, Witty, Humerous, Brilliant everything

Disadvantages: None.

I was recently handed a copy of this book from my Aunt. It was my first Douglas Adams (and still is considering I just finished it last night). From the opening page I was impressed - such a fierce imagination and individual flair. The style of writing is incredibly humerous and the characters are painted with vivid and detailed srtokes. The plot is suberbly held together by the over-riding theme of 'wholism' or everything being interconnected in someway or another. Here we find Dirk Gently - a London inhabitant working, although I use the term 'working' loosely, as a private dectective (he is a Holistic Detective). He is a quirkily dressed, overwirght middle-aged man with a brilliant intellect and a fascinating way of working - he normaly navigates in his car by following the first car which seems to know where it is going, for instance. Other characters include Kate - a travel writer, Thor, the Norse God of Thunder, Odin the 'All-Father' alongside a cornicopia of characters all inter-linked. It was not only Mr. Adam's wonderfuly powerful imagination, fluent, witty and funny writing style or his three-dimensional depiction (very real characters) and development of his characters but his amazing technical control he wields over his work which I truly have not seen in all my readings as of yet, although some have come close. A brilliant book, a brilliant story and a must-have for, well...everyone!

Summary: Great. Go buy it.