Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

By: Douglas Adams

Narrated by: Douglas Adams

Length: 3 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

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 traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.

©1991 Douglas Adams (P)2004 Simon & Schuster

Douglas Adams wit prevails

If you could sum up Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in three words, what would they be?

Adam's Funny Satire

What was one of the most memorable moments of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?

Searching for the cat

Have you listened to any of Douglas Adams’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

good

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

When on long drives, I like to listen to Douglas adams

Properly irreverent.

maliciously rational and absurd.
everything is connected no matter how seemingly innocuous and other $5 words

Abridged

Quote enjoyable, but be aware that this omits some things from the book. It's old enough that number of tapes/CDs was probably still a concern. when it was made Still enjoyable to hear it as read by Adams himself (he's not perfect, but he does quite a good job), but I was a bit disappointed by the omissions.

Classic and brilliant Douglas Adams

You really get sucked into the story just like any other Douglas Adams book. For those of you who are already complexly imaginative people, you'll be transported to a world that only he could put into words so vividly or eloquently.

a must read! or listen in my case...

Yup, that was Awesome!
finished it the day I got it.
witty and entertaining, very well written and narrated by the author!

Loved hearing the story told my Douglas himself

Tragic that Douglas Adams died so young, but it's fantastic that we have books like this to enjoy.

Douglas Adams Rulz

So clever!!I will listen and read this again and again! Learned about this book from a comedian Jordan Holmes and Am just pleased as punch. Story kept me laughing and on the edge of my seat.

lively wit and excellent reading

I love the writing. I found it quite witty and lively. The reading is very enjoyable.

So Amazingly Amazing!

This is my favorite book of all time. It wasn't the first time I listened to it because it was a little confusing with a lot of odd plot threads. The second time I listened to the book it was like looking at a silhouette of two heads looking at each other and seeing a white candlestick. I think I might have stolen that analogy from something else Douglas wrote. I will admit that I was listening to a different version that was abridged and that I didn't know that Samuel Taylor Coleridge never finished his poem Kubla Khan. That may be considered a slight spoiler, but I think he wrote the book thinking the reader should already know that.

But it all comes together, so so well. Re-listening to it I found all sorts of little clues in the details that I had glossed over and not paid attention to the first time.

Now on top of all that, the writing is so clever, well done and absolutely hilarious.

Douglas Adams strikes again!

Dirk Gently is another great Adams character, and the situations (though set on Earth) are as absurd as anything in The Hitchhiker's Guide. I give it only four stars overall simply because it's abridged - I want more!

Normally, I wouldn't even think of buying an abridged audiobook, but this is Douglas Adams - read by the author. So for me that makes all the difference.