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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Paperback)

by Douglas Adams (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan; New edition edition (24 Jun 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330301624
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330301626
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,662 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fully realised comic masterpiece, 20 Sep 2007
Douglas Adams' underated masterpiece leads Dirk Gently from a search for a missing cat to unlocking the secrets of time travel and saving the human race from total extinction.
I thought no-one could write a better comic novel than 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' until I first read this. I've subsequently re-read this novel countless times and it never fails to entertain, I'm still finding references to literature and popular culture that I've previously missed.
That a novel can be re-read despite the reader knowing what is about to happen is a testement to any novel but this one can be re-read with a suspition that something different will happen this time!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Thank goodness he called himself Dirk, 14 Aug 2004
By aceadrian (Cumbria) - See all my reviews
Hitch Hiker fans. Weird twisted fiction fans. Fictional literature fans with taste. Buy it one and all!

We follow the life of Richard as he gets helped along his way -through the perils of sofa/staircase interactions, swimming in polluted canals for no reason at all and of course being plagued by a ghost - by Reg (his old director of studies) and Dirk Gently (who thankfully changed his name from something utterly unpronouncable that looks like Adams fell asleep on the keyboard!

It is typically brilliant and well worth the read, some things you see coming - but then what would be the point of books of this sort if you dont have the pleasure in being right sometimes! But others you dont see coming.

I have to admit that I thought the ghost of a Dodo was going to use the main characters to establish its race as the dominant one on earth for a good few pages.

Fortunately I was wrong. For all our sakes - ruled by Dodos???

Buy it!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!, 15 Dec 2003
Absolutely fantastic! Very similar style to Hitchhikers Guide, with Dirk being very similar to Ford. Very imaginative and full of Douglas Adams' witty humour!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant fun
loved this audio. I've never listened to an 'audio book' before but really this was a dramatisation. Read more
Published 1 month ago by SRA Fisher

5.0 out of 5 stars "I BELIEVE" this is brilliant
This is brilliant, harry enfield does a fantastic job of dirk gently, and so does billy boyd as Richard MacDuff, it is a very funny and interesting story, if you liked the hitch... Read more
Published 5 months ago by C. Burrows

3.0 out of 5 stars funny detection
Funny detective story, a bit of nonsensical mix of everything, with an ironic touch about english academic life, black novel detection, spiritism, corporate finance, informatics,... Read more
Published 6 months ago by RAMON

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than the Guide!
This Dirk Gently novel (I have yet to read/hear the long dark tea time) is much in the same vein as the hitchhiker's guide novels, in that they are unmistakenly written in the... Read more
Published 7 months ago by M. Ooijer

4.0 out of 5 stars Do not go Gently into that good night...
I have to admit to being a little disappointed by this long-awaited audio version of Adams' peerless (unless you count the sequel 'The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul') late 80s... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Barney McGrew

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
Like many others I was less than convinced about the casting of Harry Enfield, but with persistence I grew to love him. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2007 by Mr. D. Holder-twomlow

5.0 out of 5 stars This was always going to be difficult ...
While H2G2 III-V had it's key characters and central cast for continuity, Dirk (both of them) had to work from the ground up for this outing. And they do. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2007 by Matt Wills

3.0 out of 5 stars "Shada" does the better job
It's fairly common knowledge that some parts of the storyline and some characters were first used by Adams for his Doctor Who script of "Shada", which is available both from the... Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2007 by Aloisson

5.0 out of 5 stars The sleevenotes say it all
"A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-whodunnit-time-travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic".

This just about does it justice becasue, possibly even more than... Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2007 by ds

4.0 out of 5 stars A mixed bag but not all bad
On the strength of the Radio 4 broadcast I've heard so far, this is something of a mixed bag. My initial misgivings about the casting of Harry Enfield have only been confirmed; he... Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2007 by ds

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