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Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul | 
 enlarge | Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Category: Book
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 15656
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0330309552
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780330309554
ASIN: 0330309552
Publication Date: October 13, 1989
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Condition: Pages browning
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 Not Douglas Adams best August 9, 2008
P. Overton (Dublin, Ireland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has its moments, and the first half is very enjoyable. However, it starts to get lost about two thirds of the way through and never really recovers. The ending is not very satisfactory at all and overall this does not measure up to Douglas Adams usually very high standards.
The Hitchhikers Guide to Valhalla. July 30, 2008
Ian Wood, Author of 'Here's 2 Absent Fathers'
I first feel in love with Douglas Adams on watching the TV version of `The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' and then discovering the then Hitch Hiker novels. When Adams published `Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' I was half expecting to be disappointed assuming that it could never hold a candle up to the brilliance of the Hitch Hiker books. I was proven gravely wrong and the first Dirk Gently novel was, and indeed still is, my favourite novel of all time and so I was anticipating greatness from `The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul' when I took the day off school to buy and read it on the day of publication.
And, as before, I was totally disappointed. Where before I was disappointed by the book being fantastic here I was only disappointed. It's still a great book putting most comic writing into a cocked hat however it fails to reach the heights of its predecessor or the Hitch Hiker books.
And so Dirk Gently investigates a possibly broken contract between the Nordic Gods of Valhalla and various media moguls in our own world and although this may sound like a typical Adams scenario it pans out like someone trying to write as Adams rather than Adams writing it himself. A great book just not a great Douglas Adams book.
Good book, disapointing ending December 4, 2006
Washburn
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
That says it all. Many mysteries were in fact random stuff which will never get explined, probably because Adams is an excellent writer but a very bad scenarist.
Death of the Immortals January 30, 2006
dogbarkssome (England)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul' is Douglas Adams 2nd Dirk Gently novel, following on from 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency', and this time sees Dirk investigating the explosive disappearance of his ex-secretary and the decapitation of his latest client. In many ways 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul' is a more straightforward novel than it's predecessor, with the main storyline concerning the immortal remnants of the Asgardian gods always being to the fore, though it's still fun watching Adams tie-up the disparate plot-threads using Dirk's holistic detective approach. Sadly one thing common it has with the first Dirk Gently novel is that after a hugely enjoyable build-up the novel ends with a disappointing 'blink and you'll miss it' climax, but the crucial fact that this appears to be an original novel rather than a conglomeration of Adams old Doctor Who scripts makes this ultimately the more enjoyable of the two novels.
 This is a hugely disappointing book. September 27, 2005
R. Britain (Thailand)
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
Absolutely terrible! That is my honest opinion of this book. I read HHG and loved it, but this book was possible one of the worst I have read. If it hadn't been for Adams name on the cover I would have abandoned it after a few chapters. It read like something a school boy might write, or possibly J.K.Rowling. The humor can only be described as 'whacky', in that it tries to hard but is not actually funny, a bit like wearing odd socks and a bright dickey bow to seem funny. I feel many people have added stars simple due to the author and the fact that it was his last book. Unless your blinded by the name 'Douglas Adams' don't both with this offering.
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