Monday, February 11, 2008

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Another Douglas Adams book where once again a million different pieces of story all fold together and leave the reader with a smile of "aha!" as they lay the book down and roll over to fall asleep at 3:30am.

Only they can't fall asleep because they are now reliving a section of Richard's life as he tumbles into an odd series of events that seem to have nothing in common. When he finds himself in the company of a fellow from his university days who was dismissed under questionable circumstances involving fore-knowledge of answers to an exam, things can only get more strange.

Is Dirk psychic, an eccentric who is misunderstood, or a complete fraud? And what of the professor who seems completely coherent one moment and a bumbling old man the next?

There are so many more questions that must be answered, and for the above and all the others, I simply recommend you find out for yourself.

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