false 357 25 When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this to do with Dirk's latest--and late-- client, found only this morning with his head revolving atop the hit record "Hot Potato"? Amid the hostile attentions of a stray eagle and the trauma of a very dirty refrigerator, super-sleuth Dirk Gently will once again solve the mysteries of the universe... 1096 book 1987 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2) total:7339|5:2120|4:2855|3:1965|2:358|1:41| 7339 28672 8950 234 5 4 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Aug 12 17:18:11 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 17:36:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Oct 09 21:13:13 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 21:32:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Sep 05 07:31:38 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 06:54:07 -0700 2007
The story opens with Kate Schechter attempting to catch a flight to Oslo, even though Fate seems to be conspiring against her. An explosion, deemed ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Aug 05 16:15:49 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 16:45:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Sat Jun 30 14:54:31 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 15:09:13 -0700 2007 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency isn't as tightly-written as its predecessor. On the sentence level, Adams is still writing furiously funny jokes, but The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ends up feeling like first-class humor wrapped loosely around second-class...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 13 16:57:28 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 17:13:24 -0800 2009
"It can hardly be a coincidence that n...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 22:47:06 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 02:25:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 14:29:18 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 14:30:53 -0700 2009 "An 'act of God.' Merely a chance, careless phrase by which people were able to dispose conveniently of awkward phenomena that would admit of no more rational explanation. But it was the chance carelessness of it which particularly appealed to Dirk because words used carelessly, as if they did...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 04 09:36:44 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 08:35:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Sep 08 07:25:28 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 12 07:20:49 -0800 2008 Twice But this being the second Dirk Gently novel, it's not that simple. For starters - which God? And why did Gently's ex-secretary disappear at the same time? And who is the bi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Sat Mar 01 15:35:28 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 22:28:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 31 06:26:11 -0800 2008 Thu May 07 08:18:53 -0700 2009
In this story, Dirk is contracted to meet a client one morning at 6 AM, and play bodyguard. The time is vital. The client has made it a point that Dirk absolutely, p...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 18 11:13:55 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 21 18:24:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 22 12:24:02 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 26 02:35:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 16 11:31:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 08:31:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 18:20:57 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 18:33:40 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 30 22:36:30 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 22:41:08 -0700 2009 act of g...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 31 18:11:04 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 18:21:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 26 12:57:30 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 13:00:43 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 08:54:39 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 08:54:59 -0700 2009 more...]]>