Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

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I'm kind of amazed at my emotional response to even thinking about this book, or any of Douglas Adams' books. It is one of deep affection and longing .. and sadness that he died so young and there are no more books to come from this brilliant, funny, creative author. I am just now reminded that I need, DESPERATELY NEED to finally get around to reading 'Last Chance to See' a book about the last chance to see ten species on the brink of extinction. (you might, accurately, imagine at this point that I have reached for my phone and ordered 'Last Chance to See' from Audible.com and that I will be listening to it this evening as I drift off to sleep). Back to the book. Dirk Gentley he has a couch stuck in his staircarse. He has an Apple Macintosh grinding away to figure out how to get it unstuck and it comes to the startling conclusion that it was impossible to get the couch in that position in the first place. But what does this have to do with the murder of Dirk Gentley's latest client? Nothing apparently, but Dirk Gentley is a rather unusual detective, he believes deeply in the interconnectedness of all things. There are no coincidences. Clues for the murder confronting him might be found in "a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza". Dirk follows all of these thing and more to their inevitable intersection with the murder at hand, and saves the entire human race in the bargain.

The book is full of Adams' patented form of silliness as well as his keen and humourous incites into the human condition. I have a deep longing to stop RIGHT NOW and go back and read every word he ever wrote and consume all the TV shows he contributed to (can you say The Pirate Planet in Doctor Who or even Monty Python's Flying Circus). I can't imagine that even the most straight laced and dour of the human race could fail to find joy and laughter in the writings of Douglas Adams. Although I CAN imagine Douglas Adams creating just such a character. RIP.