![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The new character, Kate, just wants to get a pizza delivered in London and makes some hilariously fortuitous bath soap purchases. In this second book, we get more on the idea that all things are interconnected, which is a hilarious idea if you think about it. Dirk himself is an absent-minded savant versus the everyman ordinariness of Arthur Dent funny things happen to Dent, but Gently is often the source of the humor in these books. While I still think the Hitchhiker's Guide books are my favorites, there are some great things about the Dirk Gently books. This is typical inspired zaniness from Douglas Adams. ![]() There was apparently an earlier adaptation several years ago on regular BBC, er, I guess, BBC Britain, which I have not seen). You might want to read them soon, since BBC America debuts a Dirk Gently series starring Elijah Wood on October 22 (See a weird trailer here. You could easily read the second without having read the first. Despite this theme of holistic connection, there's little explicit connection between The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the first Dirk Gently book, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. This is Adams's second book about Dirk Gently, a "holistic detective" who solves mysteries based on his belief that everything is connected to everything else. ![]()
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