Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency |
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 | Like many others I was less than convinced about the casting of Harry Enfield, but with persistence I grew to love him. I liked Dirk Gently as a character because, like Ford Prefect, he had an infuriating habit of appearing to know everything without ever having gone through a learning process - despite knowing that Dirk went to Cambridge too my mind seemed to brush it aside almost as a formality!
Something about the way Harry Enfield delivered complex lines in an almost simplistic way reinforced the idea that, like Ford, he was several steps ahead of everyone, one felt guilty needing to hear them again and it was clear that Dirk Gently had a very sharp mind indeed.
I loved the odd homage to Douglas Adam's magnum opus, for example, the sound of the lift opening in the last episode, which was taken from the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I only wish Adams had lived to hear it. He would have adored it. I did. read more.
Written by Douglas Adams.
Published 24 June 1988.
Published by Pan Macmillan.
rrp £7.99.
256 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0330301624
ISBN-13: 9780330301626 | |
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