The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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4.1 • 93 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Beloved, bumbling Detective Dirk Gently returns in this standalone novel from Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
When a check-in desk at London’s Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the event is said to be an act of God. But which god? wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently. And how is this connected to Dirk’s battle with his cleaning lady over his filthy refrigerator…or to the murder of his latest client? Or are these events just another stretch of coincidences in the life of the world’s most off-kilter private investigator?
Douglas Adams, “one of England’s top exporters of irreverence” (Chicago Tribune), continues the implausible adventures of supersleuth Dirk Gently in his quest to solve the mysteries of the universe.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
``The British author of the Hitchhiker trilogy and other immensely popular lunacies, Adams permits no whiff of common sense to spoil his new novel, which combines fantasy, hilarity and creeping horrors,'' remarked PW . Here, sleuth Dirk Gently investigates a lawyer and an advertiser who possess the soul of the god Odin. ``The plot's ramifications are marvelous, bloody and irresistible.''
Customer Reviews
Mostly harmless
The universe was concerned that the reviewer was putting too much thought into his review and simply made him right "mostly harmless"
Typographical error spotted
I'm still in mid-book so I cannot provide an accurate rating. But in order to submit this, I am forced to give a rating.
Chapter 17, the paragraph starting "He felt suddenly elated": "who would career out into the road to explain to the oncoming traffic about the Day of Judgement,"
Without having the original text on hand I'm afraid I cannot say with any specific sense of authority being that I am neither the author nor anyone with anything better than a familiarity with language, traffic and the Day of Judgement but generally speaking the verb careen would make more sense then the noun career.
Less than the sum of its parts
I felt like I should like this book. You pick up a book you’ve heard of from an author whose work you like, and you think you should like the book. And if you don’t, maybe it’s actually you and not the book.
So maybe I just didn’t get it.
But the constant funny little scenes and wry-but-true observations and absurdities add up to somewhat of a boring story with an unsatisfying ending.
It’s like watching a movie trailer where all the funny parts have been pulled out, except the trailer includes the last few minutes of the film and there isn’t any film, just the trailer.
I enjoyed reading this book while I was reading it, but now that it’s over, I can’t say I liked it.