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A review by aceinit
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
2.0
I am really conflicted about this one. I wanted to like it, and I had high hopes for it given how much I loved Hitchhiker's. The characters are, by themselves, interesting...with the exception of Dirk, whose legend I loved (as described during his student days, and as he was spying on Richard as he committed the break-in) but whose actual character (once Richard met him) proved too full of himself and juvenile for me to really connect with. Sherlock Holmes, Dirk Gently is not.
I can't help but feel like this cast was thrown into a plot blender to see what could come out, as it becomes progressively more messy and incoherent as the story progresses.
Maybe I missed something. Or maybe this story was just a mess. All I know was that when I started reading, I couldn't wait to turn the page, but somewhere around the 2/3 mark, I couldn't wait for it to be over so I could move on to something else.
I can't help but feel like this cast was thrown into a plot blender to see what could come out, as it becomes progressively more messy and incoherent as the story progresses.
Maybe I missed something. Or maybe this story was just a mess. All I know was that when I started reading, I couldn't wait to turn the page, but somewhere around the 2/3 mark, I couldn't wait for it to be over so I could move on to something else.