Very funny. Very fun. Do spend some time with this other character of Douglas Adams'. If you enjoyed Hitchhiker's Guide, you'll like this too.

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This is a great book and definitely a good read if you like any of Douglas Adams other books.

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It's refreshing to read Douglas Adams and his bizarre sense of story. From seemingly random story lines in the beginning, they all come together in the end...sort of. I'm not sure I understand it all, but time-travelling tends to do that to you. Anyway, a nice, funny, Douglas Adams read.

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This is a highly entertaining book by the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There is a lot of similar humor in this book, covering a lot of new material.

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A great fun read from the guy who brought you Hitchiker's Guide to the Universe!

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a fun read

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This was a fun and yet, very weird book. I enjoyed the British humor. Doug Adams has a wild imagination!

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I you think that the Hitchhiker series is far out, you havent read this book. Its so far out no one knows what it really is. Step aside, Twilight Zone this is the most convoluted sci-fi tale ever dreamed up. Adams makes Ray Bradbury seem like a novice. Im not sure who is the madder, Adams, or his publisher. This book has everything that makes no sense. The last page contains an ominous warning. Rather than say The End, it says to be continued. Makes the reader shudder, doesnt it?

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A must read. Really out of the box.

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What a fun book!
I spent the first few chapters trying to figure out how it all connected; the robot, the poetry dinner and the title character. But about halfway through (around the time Dirk entered the story) I was enjoying the story so much I stopped worrying about the haphazard plot making sense. Adams even managed to include the bit with the couch into the ending. Bravo!
The second book is already on its way here.

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After all the sad stuff I've been reading, I needed something funny. I didn't like this as much as the Hitchhiker series, but it was kind of funny. It took awhile for me to get the characters straight, maybe that was the big difference. I already knew the Hitchhiker crew from the Commodore 64 computer game! Now that I know the characters, I will probably order the second book at some point.

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Another Douglas Adams insteresting book!

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From the back cover: There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time-traveller, AND...the devastating secret of humankind!

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Excellent detective story from one of my favorite sci-fi authors. A great book for anyone that finished the Hitchhikers series and still needs that Douglas Adams fix.

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Interesting when paired with The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, seeing the character of Dirk Gentley evolve. It's an easy, fun read.

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Honestly, I didn't enjoy this book at all. I have read the entire Hitchhiker's Guide (loved it!) as well as The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (pretty good), but just could not get into this one at all. It does end up having a decent plot, but the book just drags on and wasn't worth the time it took to read.

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