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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently was once at school at Oxford, until a mix-up with the answers to a term end final test led him to be dismissed from the school. In this first adventure Dirk helps out a former school mate wanted by the police in connection with the bizarre murder of his boss. Everything is connected in Dirk’s holistic mind, including the Electric Monk, Musical financial software, a stuck sofa, a rude Oxford porter and more than one ghost. Oh yes, and a lost cat. The cat is crucial!
There were so many moments where I was enchanted by Adams turn of phrase which brought a smile to my face. Despite only having seen the BBC series based on the character before this, Gently has firmly entrenched himself as one of my favorite characters in literature. After having watched the (way too short) Dirk Gently series, I will always picture Stephen Mangan as Gently and now reading the book I can see that he really did an awesome job in his portrayal.
One thing I would note about this particular version, it was at times hard to follow the action in this radio-play adaptation of the novel, which shouldn’t be a challenge for those already familiar with the novel, but for others it may be best to start with the novel and then listen to this audio, it’s definitely a book worth a few re-readings!
There were so many moments where I was enchanted by Adams turn of phrase which brought a smile to my face. Despite only having seen the BBC series based on the character before this, Gently has firmly entrenched himself as one of my favorite characters in literature. After having watched the (way too short) Dirk Gently series, I will always picture Stephen Mangan as Gently and now reading the book I can see that he really did an awesome job in his portrayal.
One thing I would note about this particular version, it was at times hard to follow the action in this radio-play adaptation of the novel, which shouldn’t be a challenge for those already familiar with the novel, but for others it may be best to start with the novel and then listen to this audio, it’s definitely a book worth a few re-readings!