The two attend the annual Samuel Taylor Coleridge dinner at St Cedd's College where the poet's famous works are read, igniting a series of literary allusions and historical visits redefining civilization as only Adams can concoct it. Richard MacDuff, a gangling computer software developer with a Chesterfield sofa trapped in his stairway, visits his former college mentor, the perennially retired Professor Urban Chronotis, called "Reg" for his title, Regius Professor of Chronology. But what a fun ride it is even without the spaceships! Unlike the characters in Douglas Adam's epic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, these characters are (almost) all Earthbound, lacking extra appendages and only holding (mostly) internal dialogues with themselves. Rambles.NET: Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams,ĭirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a ghost story, sci-fi thriller, romantic comedy, buddies-on-the-road novel which reexamines the creation of our world through literary allegory, and - as a bonus - takes the reader inside the thought processes of a hilariously bored horse.
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