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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
3.5 Star Review
This book is interesting to say the very least. Adams somehow manages to fit in every random twist and turn a story could possibly go into a 260 page book. It was quite brilliant, but I didn’t understand what was going on about 60% of the time.
The humor of the writing is entertaining (and who doesn’t love their dose of British humor?) but comes in short bursts, after long narratives that left me bored. In the end almost all of it comes around again, nearly every detail is important — to the point where I wanted to go back and read the first 6 chapters again.
However, my biggest shortcoming in reading this, was that I failed to understand the ending because I wasn’t familiar with Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poetry. I’m sure after reading his work and specifically, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” much of the book would make more sense to me. But alas I didn’t realize I needed to go into this read having done some homework.
The “fundamental interconnectedness” of the story was brilliant and fascinating to go through. It made me laugh out loud quite a bit. Yet, it took me much longer to read than I had initially expected for a medium length chapter book.
It may warrant a re-read eventually after I familiarize myself more with the poem, but for now it stands at 3.5 stars and I’ll happily move on to my next read.
This book is interesting to say the very least. Adams somehow manages to fit in every random twist and turn a story could possibly go into a 260 page book. It was quite brilliant, but I didn’t understand what was going on about 60% of the time.
The humor of the writing is entertaining (and who doesn’t love their dose of British humor?) but comes in short bursts, after long narratives that left me bored. In the end almost all of it comes around again, nearly every detail is important — to the point where I wanted to go back and read the first 6 chapters again.
However, my biggest shortcoming in reading this, was that I failed to understand the ending because I wasn’t familiar with Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poetry. I’m sure after reading his work and specifically, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” much of the book would make more sense to me. But alas I didn’t realize I needed to go into this read having done some homework.
The “fundamental interconnectedness” of the story was brilliant and fascinating to go through. It made me laugh out loud quite a bit. Yet, it took me much longer to read than I had initially expected for a medium length chapter book.
It may warrant a re-read eventually after I familiarize myself more with the poem, but for now it stands at 3.5 stars and I’ll happily move on to my next read.