Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Mass Market Paperback, 306 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 2002 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-0-671-74672-8
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OCLC Number:
806295684

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4 stars (182 reviews)

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time-traveller, AND the devastating secret of humankind! (back cover)

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4 stars

I'd wanted to read this one for a long time. Enjoyable, if not as effervescent and sublimely funny as the first few Hitchhiker books. I will say that it struck me as very odd that Douglas "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too" Adams would be trucking with ghosts, and I expected him to really skewer the "holistic" end of things as well... but there you have it. Having most of the story set in the ordinary humdrum world, aside from the flashes of... well... other stuff... was a bit of a disappointment as well- it made things much more serious for me, which wasn't really what one picks up Adams for. Or perhaps I should say that the balance of funny and serious leaned much more heavily to serious here than I would …

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