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The investigations of Dirk Gently, a private detective who is more interested in telekinesis, quantum mechanics and lunch than fiddling around with fingerprint powders, produce startling and unexpected results.
Douglas Adams spins a tale of a detective's case that involves aliens, ghosts, electronic monks, time travel, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It's also very funny. The story originated with a plot Adams wrote for Doctor Who as well as his own experiences at Cambridge but evolved into something that defies expectation. I enjoyed this book very much but I think I'm going to have to read it again to pick up on all the details. ( )
This book was such a wild ride I’m still not sure what to think of it. The ending confused me so I looked the references up, and after that I loved it. I’ve decided I will not only read a Douglas Adams book, because they are such hard reads that don’t hook me fast enough. I ended up in a book slump (not reading cause i did in fact keep reading for months, just no the book) ( )
I read this book because I watched the series. I really liked the series.
The only thing the book and the series had in common were a character called Dirk Gently (but this is a completely different character than in the series), the fact that he had a Holistic Detective Agency (but that means something else in the book than in the series) and the title.
That's it.
There were some interesting things in this book. It wasn't bad. It was just.. so entirely not what I expected. There sure was a LOT going on. All the computer science stuff is now rather outdated, but that makes it sort of cute. The time travel stuff was weird, but I don't think time travel can ever get outdated, because... well. I felt bad for the horse.
Won't read again, won't read the sequels - but I should pick up HHGttG again one of these days. ( )
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A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic -The author
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To my mother, who liked the bit about the horse
Janet Thrift
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Den här gången skulle det inte finnas några vittnen.
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Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
'Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see?'
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.
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