Douglas Adams – The long dark tea-time of the soul (03-049)

[gerbie]

Douglas Adams – The long dark tea-time of the soul (03-049)

Thank you Kittiwake, for spontaneously sending me this one, after you read I did enjoy the first Dirk Gently novel. And again I have to admit that I do like Dirk, he is a good guy, has a great sense of humour and an unconventional way of thinking. How can I not like him?

Spontaneous combustion as the starting point for a novel is funny as well. Thing with the Gently books is that it does not try to convince me that impossible things actually exist. To me, most sci-fi fantasy is still about Marsyan characters who have special powers but apart from that act like humans. Adams manages to avoid that genre all together as he just plainly states some impossibility into his story, yet describes them in a way that it could have happened. You are willing to believe him. The strange thing that happen are a given.

Therefore I found myself reading about the Nordic gods who suffer in this strange world. `You made us immortal, yet you wonder that we are still alive` I paraphrase, as I can’t be arsed to find the exact quote. Brilliant logic! Who can deny the fact that the gods must still be around. So inevitably our hero ends up visiting Valhalla. Combine these finds with a gift for strange conversations and you’ve got a good book.

This is a good book.

Comments

[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

Whee! One of my absolute favourites of all time.

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

I wouldn´t go that far, but I can imagine its appeal.

[kittiwake.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. I'm finding that Book Crossing is widening the range of what I'm reading quite a lot.

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Having signed up for several bookrings I notice that as well. Swaps like our original one helped me discover Adams. I like the BookCrossing concept. I´m still annoyed though that 80% of my wild releases never re-appear.