Douglas Adams
1988
Around 260 pages
Another Douglas Adams to coo over! I love all my Dougy novels, but I actually enjoyed the main mystery of this novel more than its predecessor. And it also contains one of my favorite opening lines in all of literature: "It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'As pretty as an airport.'" So true, especially for the Pittsburgh airport.
Dirk Gently is back, and once again he is solving the mysteries of the universe. The main mystery concerns Dirk's decapitated client, an explosion at Heathrow, and a mad eagle. Usually, I don't enjoy novels described as "surreal" but this was definitely a surreal, madcap adventure.
Sunday afternoons are a pretty gloomy time, and he captures that despair well. It's a strange talent he has, that he can be so outrageous and philosophically accurate at the same time. Unfortunately, that was the last Adams novel on the List. So what's the point of going on?
Oh yes, John Irving.
RATING: *****
Interesting Facts:
Interesting Facts:
Adams had intended to follow it with a third such novel, The Salmon of Doubt, but he died before completing it.
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1 comment:
This sounds like just what I need for some change in my reading. I like silly and madcap sounds just right!
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