Review: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I'll never not love this book. I have listened to the author-narrated audiobook several times now, and this time I started it simply because I was struggling with another book, the end of a trilogy, and I needed something delightful to bring me joy. Unfortunately, this book brings me so much joy that I couldn't bring myself to return and finish the other. Oh, well.

I'm not about to properly review this one today, but I'll note that I had forgotten that we don't actually meet Dirk directly in this book for about the first dozen chapters. Actually, now that I've been reading quite a bit, compared with the first few times that I read this story, I'll add that the way this is structured would usually frustrate me but for some reason it doesn't. I mean the way Adams drops very vague hints right at the end of a chapter before switching to a seemingly unrelated but typically bizarre topic in the next. I think maybe it ends up working because of the nature of Dirk's working philosophy. Maybe.

Anyway, I do love it. And I'll probably review it one day. And I'll definitely read it again soon.

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