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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
Because of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I really wanted to love this book as much as I loved that series. I will say, Dirk Gently had a lot of Adam's humor and writing style, it was a complex story from a unique mind, but I didn't think the story worked. It jumped around way too much from different 3rd party points of view that were hard to tie into the whole of the story. I was hoping they would all flow together at the end but they only partially did that. What was really strange was the name sake character of the book, Dirk Gently, did not even show up until page 114 of a 306 page book.
This is a book I have been wanting to read for a while, had picked it up a few times and started it, but it didn't catch my interest. I recently watched the TV series and absolutely loved it so, I thought the book was going to be even better. The TV series is based on the character but not based on the book. There is a totally different story line. This is one of the few times the TV show (or movie) was better than the book.
This is a book I have been wanting to read for a while, had picked it up a few times and started it, but it didn't catch my interest. I recently watched the TV series and absolutely loved it so, I thought the book was going to be even better. The TV series is based on the character but not based on the book. There is a totally different story line. This is one of the few times the TV show (or movie) was better than the book.