Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Do yourself a favor and listen to the audiobook which is narrated by Douglas Adams. This dude just gets me. ( )

His boss is griping
girlfriend is getting fed up
then, there's this sofa... ( )

Benim için okuması zor bir kitap oldu bunun nedeni hem kitabın çok küçük puntolu olması hem de kitapta çok fazla sayıda baskı hatası olmasıydı. Aynı zamanda espriler çok güzel olmasına rağmen çeviri sırasında çok düz bir şekilde çevrildiği için komikliğini kaybetmiş.
Okuyabilirseniz İngilizce okumanızı veya başka bir yayınevinden çıkmasını beklemenizi öneririm.

Kitaba gelecek olursam kitabın başı çok sıkıcıydı ama Dirk Gently'nin adı geçtikten sonra kitap haraketlenmeye başlıyor, Dirk ortaya çıktıktan sonra ise kitabı elinizden bırakamayacak hale geliyorsunuz. İkinci kitabı da kısa bir süre içinde okuyacağım. ( )

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 delight and amaze and generally blow most writing away by the sheer audacity.

To think that Douglas Adams never considered himself a writer! Truly amazing. And of course us fans just snicker at that and keep reading.

I admit to really liking this but not loving it as much as the Hitchhiker series. I don't know. Maybe I just wanted more of the idiot and less of the incomprehensible mystic in systems-theory sheep's clothing.

What can I say? As an adult, I'm doing an about-face and saying that this might be better by far. It's still wacky and zany and full of oddball moments, but it's closer to Earth... mostly... just not always in the same time-zone. :) And on top of that, it was fun as hell getting into all the old computer stuff and getting into the poetry and the music and ESPECIALLY the problem of the couch.

The couch stayed with me all these years and it was such a wonderful character. It almost reaches the same heights as a certain fridge in the next book. Of which I'm doing a re-read next. :)

Now, to be sure, I probably wouldn't have done a re-read at all if it hadn't been for the BBC tv production of the same name, and even as I was watching it I was going... "Is this remotely the same?"

Definitive answer: SOME. lol. Not all that much. Characters, some. Situations, hints. Zany? That's full-tilt. :) All said, no complaints on either side of the tv screen. )

I'm glad to be doing all of the above. :) ( )

DNF @ 20%.
I enjoyed tv-adaptation (season 1 at least, before all the drama about producers), but this book was so hard to get through. I read at least 100 pages and don't care about any of characters or the story itself. Maybe it's lost in translation (I'm reading this in russian), but I didn't get the humor.
Not for me, unfortunately:/ ( )