Dirk Gently's Holistic Approach to Solving Mysteries

Cliente Amazon: I have never laughed this much reading a book. I love reading D.A.

Italy on Mar 08, 2023

Chuck H: Unfortunately Douglas Adams was taken from us after just two books based on his Dirk Gently character.

That is a loss humanity may never fully appreciate.

I would consider this one my lesser favorite of the two Gently novels with “The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul” being my fave and at or near the top of my “deserted island ten” book list for years now.

But this is our introduction to Dirk Gently. The very antithesis of Sherlock Holmes.

His zen method of driving. His cigarette coughing him awake first thing in the morning. His Jaguar built during those magical years when Jaguars needed more maintenance than petrol.

Adams will forever be loved for his Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy series but had he more years on this little blue green marble the world may have came to have loved Dirk Gently every bit as much as Arthur Dent.

United States on Dec 21, 2022

G. John Smith: Great book. Interesting read.

Canada on Feb 19, 2022

Constant Reader: Four Stars minus, because while I can admire this book, I could not quite enjoy it. I doubt that I will read any more of the books in the series. What a very quirky, strange book this is. All of it is clever. And much of the time that cleverness is entertaining. But some of the time, it is chaotic and borderline irritating. Our story begins with multiple threads that are not yet woven together. We have the Electric Monk and his horse wandering around what seems to be an alien setting. We leave them and jump to Gordon the corporate mogul driving in his Mercedes and about to be murdered and turned into a ghost who will pop up from time to time. Then the narrative jumps briefly to Susan (Gordon’s sister and Richard’s girlfriend) before the reader meets Richard, our main character, at a Coleridge dinner at Cambridge with his old college don. And I haven’t even mentioned the themes with music, mathematical equations, or Michael’s story line. All this time, we have no idea what will be important, very little idea about what is actually happening, and we have not met Dirk Gently. Finally, Dirk arrives on the pages. You might think as a detective that his focus will be to solve...

United States on Oct 29, 2020

Lucía H: GOOD

Spain on Jun 11, 2019

Hélio: Assisti à série na Netflix e fiquei apaixonado! O livro é excelente, leitura cativante e envolvente! Recomendo a todos. Leitura imperdível

Brazil on Apr 13, 2018

ojedamazo: Buen libro, el detalle es que viene en inglés completamente y yo no me dí cuenta, pero me sirve para animarme a aprender.

Mexico on Mar 16, 2018

Barkingmad: There are a few minor word substitusions that vary from the original paper text. Some one who is a Douglas Adams die hard should proof read this Kindle version and take some notes to the publisher but other than that I could not be more thrilled.
I AM AN ENTHUSIASTIC FAN OF DOUGLAS ADAMS
I have read all of his books an embarassing number of times and probably always will . . . until I am so old all that comes to mind are memories of smells and earrings . . . (read the book).
I am greatful for the low price of these two Dirk Gently books I must say.
I wanted these two books on Kindle so badly that for years, every week, I would click the "I want to Read This On Kindle" button" as I went about my other explorations on Amazon. I have no Idea if it helped. I like to think I single handedly caused these great reads to become available on Kindle. Probably not. I probably only got one vote.
Because of the puzzling and bloody minded way the universe works, the interconnectedness of all things as it were, probably what had the most effect was my bloody minded photographing each page of a hard bound copy of this book so I could read it on my iPhone. Dambed if I didn't get...

United States on Mar 31, 2013