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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency  - Douglas Adams

1988
The plot gets a bit muddled at the end, but I dearly love this book. And the sofa.

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Sept 10, 2012
This may be one of the few books that is more rewarding to re-read. Now all those random scenes make sense.

In fact, my reading pal at the mini mart and I were talking yesterday about how hard it can be to read Adams the first time. That you have to just stick with it, and hope it makes sense at the end. [It won't, it'll still be muddled nonsense, but it'll be funny nonsense]

This reading what I particularly enjoyed were all the bits about music and computers and cats. These may have been my favorite bits before, but I failed to record that.

I also particularly noticed the idea of extinction, echoed in Last Chance to See.

And the sofa issue.

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