It would be foolish to regard this a must-read. It is well known that the Douglas Adams works that best fit that description are his Hitchhiker novels, particularly the first two or three. Still, The Salmon of Doubt is an enjoyable, if bittersweet celebration of Adams as both a writer and a person. There are tributes and introductions and lamentations from his friends and colleagues bookending this collection, but once the reader reaches the real meat of the book - Adams's essays, short stories, and unfinished third Dirk Gently novel - any sense of the funereal is replaced by the pure joy of viewing the universe from his perspective. Quite often are books endorsed as "Laugh-out-loud funny", Salmon, and indeed anything Adams has written, genuinely is. The most satisfying portions of this particular volume were his essays. Reading as he describes his brilliantly silly fictional worlds is always entertaining, reading as he illustrates the brilliant silliness of the real world is unadulterated wonderment. The man was a genius, and will be missed.