The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Holistic detective, Dirk Gently is back to solve another case. An airline ticketing counter at Heathrow Airport blows up and is considered to be an act of God. Gently wants to find out just which god is responsible. Of course, as happens in Gently's life and as his philosophy works, everything is connected and Dirk looks into the connections, because somehow he manages to be connected to everything in the universe, too.
He discovers gods, his missing, and very surly, ex-secretary and Valhalla in the course of his investigation. How many people have that in them?
Douglas Adams wrote some of the wildest stuff I've ever read. He managed to be thought provoking and smart and ridiculous and hysterically funny all at the same time. His death was a great loss to the literary community and the world at large. Who knows what else he had to share with us?
It's been so long since I read this, I barely recall it, but the title has
always been one of my favorites, and when my husband and I read and enjoyed
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, he commented that it was an homage to this
Adams book.
