The characters and main plots could have been used for one much longer or two short books and it would have been a masterpiece again. It could have been an epic milestone like the ingenious hitchhiker series, but it is simply too short and too densely packed at the same time, it´s a miracle how this is even possible. The concept of putting as many ideas as possible in as less book space as imaginable worked well for the hitchhiker, but in this case, it was too much, no I mean, less. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.'". Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer.
'So obvious that the only thing which prevented me from seeing the solution was the trifling fact that it was completely impossible. "'Don't you listen to anything you say? The whole thing was obvious!' he exclaimed, thumping the table. 'Anything else we have to take our chances with.'" 'The light works,' he said, indicating the window, 'the gravity works,' he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. He waved a vague hand around the tatty surroundings. "On the wall was a Duran Duran poster on which someone had scrawled in fat red felt tip, 'Take this down please.'īeneath that another hand had scrawled, 'No.'īeneath that again the first hand had written, 'I insist that you take it down.'īeneath that the second hand had written, 'Won't!'Īnd there the matter appeared to have rested."
Lots of little synapses deep inside his cerebral cortex all joined hands and started dancing around and singing nursery rhymes." His brain began to buzz gently and suck its thumb. "Richard stood transfixed for moment or two, wiped his forehead again, and gently replaced the phone as if it were an injured hamster. 'You say there's a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?'" 'Wait - ' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate - 'Let it be. Instead, I'll just share some quotes from this book that I especially loved, because Douglas Adams is the only author in the history of the world who is capable of creating them. It won't b I still don't really understand how the ending of this book worked, and trying to describe the plot would be like trying to build a submarine out of cheese. I still don't really understand how the ending of this book worked, and trying to describe the plot would be like trying to build a submarine out of cheese. ‘A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-whodunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy epic.’ The author. To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it, then read it) – or contact Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common?Īpparently not much until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza – not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge).
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