Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is one of Douglas Adams' best books. A highly overlooked novel, due to the Hitchhiker stardom, it surpasses many of the books in this famous series in wit, charm and Adams' brilliant humor. But this review isn't about Holistic. Nope. It's about the sequel.
This book is not a horrible piece of rubbish. I never read Holistic until I was in my late teens because my parents/siblings read Long Dark Tea-Time and pronounced it unfit to be opened. By the time I had opened Holistic, I had long forgiven Douglas Adams for writing So Long and Thanks for all the Fish and gotten over the unfunny parts of Universe. But only now could I read Tea-Time and believe in the story...more importantly, believe it was written by Adams.
The problem is that this is a good story, a good fantasy story, without the usual heart that Douglas Adams wrote with. I did enjoy the read. I found the story interesting, even the conclusion of the mystery (who ever thought Adams would be good at the genre?) to be fulfilling, but Holistic is definitely the superior of the two novels.
Oh. And another thing. Some authors, like Douglas Adams, are VERY good with the way they phrase the experiences of the world in the book. Often times, Adams is over-the-top creative in his descriptions, leading you to a better understanding of the confused world. But an author should never use this literary device when explaining important complicated action sequences. It requires the reader to re-read a passage several times and still not clearly understand what happened.
Alas.
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