Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica

Too many not fully expanded ideas The concept of putting as many ideas as possible in as less book space as imaginable worked well for the hitchhiker, but in this case, it was too much, no I mean, less. It could have been an epic milestone like the ingenious hitchhiker series, but it is simply too s Leggi tutto

I last read this when I was really young and was shortly getting off a fantastic kick of HHGttG wanting MORE, as, I assume, most people do when they get on a Douglas Adams kick. Like the other series, every page is filled with wonderfully witty and fascinating and wise (crack) quotes that will deligh Leggi tutto

Is it an audacious thing to say that Mr. Douglas Adams is hit or miss? Yes. (Well, & "audacious" not really.) Good. Here is a fun (and I mean FUN) book, rife with what is absurd and comical in certain sciences that dictate what the world is--I know my math teacher in high school was mad about him. And Leggi tutto

In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn A science fiction book decree With plot purloined from Doctor Who A cross between a witches' brew And a nice cup of tea. So several chapters serially were wrote Until the text was finished, good and whole A sovereign remedy or antidote Against the long dark teatime of the soul And th Leggi tutto

I discovered Douglas Adams by coincidence. I found his book Last Chance to See , co-written by Mark Cawardine, about animals near extinction and Douglas' and Mark's trip around the world to see some of them, in a box with "Mängelexemplare" (old books, sometimes not in top condition that are therefore Leggi tutto

“He instituted this Chair of Chronology to see if there was any particular reason why one thing happened after another and if there was any way of stopping it. Since the answers to the three questions were, I knew immediately, yes, no, and maybe, I realised I could then take the rest of my career of Leggi tutto

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 Leggi tutto

I am a firm believer that a bit of British humor is good for the soul... And I am quite American, in case you did not know... “Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters