Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

By: Douglas Adams

Narrated by: Douglas Adams

From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction classics of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, comes a wildly inventive novel of ghosts, time travel, and one detective’s mission to save humanity from extinction.

DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime.
We find the whole person.
Phone today for the whole solution to your problem.
(Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty)

In this novel from the legendary Douglas Adams, quirky and bumbling Private Investigator Dirk Gently stumbles upon a million-year-old ghost, wandering the earth and disturbing all its people. What he uncovers is the ghost’s desperate plot to go back in time to prevent its own death. But this ghost was no ordinary person, and helping it save itself just might change the modern world as we know it. And not in a good way.

Funny

Not a perfect story, the ending is kind of rushed, but makes me laugh out loud a lot so I love it. If you enjoy it to there is a second book in the series that is also great.

As Read By The Creator Of "The Book"

I found it to be a real tr8eat to finally get to hear the voice of Douglas Addams, The Creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide himself, You get the real feel for his work through his voice and his expressiveness...
This is a true treat for all those who have followed Arthur Dent through his trip through and to the end of the Universe....
I will leave you with the answer to the ultimate question to the Universe...
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enthralled and confused

I'm a little confused what happened in this book but it was most enthralling and exciting. worth a second listen. love that Douglas narrated it him self.

Amazing!

What did you love best about Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?

I love the blending of absurdness into a coherent book, I would go so far to call it art

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

I would compare this to the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. In fact, it would appear to me to be even better due to mystery involved. I absolutely adored this book

Any additional comments?

the beginning bangs on a bit, but if you can over come that, then you are subject to the most elegant book I have read in a long time

Abridged, but still absolutely worthwhile!

I was initially quite distraught to find that this audiobook is abridged, and while honing my vexation to unleash upon some poor Audible representative, I decided to listen to a bit first. I went from "How dare they lessen something written by Douglas Adams!" to "Hey, Douglas Adams himself is narrating this!" in about thirty seconds, and then enjoyed myself immensely for next three hours. If you want a way to defuse your anger, have a lot of yard work to do in heat and humidity, or just want a great book full of really funny British humor read by DNA himself, then this is the book for you. I have personally tested it and it works amazingly well in each of these situations. I can't wait to mow the lawn tomorrow while listening to The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”