Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

by Douglas Adams

307 pages

English language

Published Feb. 27, 1991

ISBN:: 978-0-671-74251-5
Goodreads:: 357

(13 reviews)

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Adams had intended to follow it with a third such novel, The Salmon of Doubt, but he died before completing it; an unfinished draft is included in a posthumously published collection of the same name. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul has been adapted for radio, and several plot lines appear in the 2010 BBC TV series.

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johanna reviewed Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

4 stars

Both Dirk Gently books were gifted to me upon request on Christmas 2021. This second book, while not as good as the first one, is definitely worth checking out because it is just as funny. My 'issues' (which is a big word because there's not exactly anything I could point to and say "this was bad", it's just not as good as the first one) are with the plot and not the quality of the humor which is the same.

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5 stars

I've always preferred the Dirk Gently novels over the hitchhiker novels. His theories are funny and how everything is connected is genius. Mr Adams at his best.