Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Not another thing, please

And another thing... by Eoin Colfer

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I forget where I read it, only that it is not my own observation, but someone put my most frequent problem with fantasy and sci-fi best: the more made up words it contains, the less likely I am to enjoy the book. This is a fairly short book that is long on nonsense. My eyes just glazed over half the text for a lack of intelligible prose to grab on to. A continuation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series written by Douglas Adams, it took me twice as long to read its 275 pages than an average book […]

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5/29/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

Mostly Charmless

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

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You can get the whole idea of “Dirk Gently” and his so-called detective agency from one line. Referring to Sherlock Holmes’ famous precept that “once you eliminate the impossible, whatever’s left, however improbable, must be the truth” Dirk replies, “I prefer not to eliminate the impossible.” That’s a clever line, but also rather exasperating. That’s Dirk Gently, and this book, in a nutshell. I laughed quite a few times at some inspired bit of absurdity or an ingenious turn of phrase, but mostly I found myself irritated with the story and it’s title character. The framework around the holistic detective […]

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2/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:7 |

Lost Between a Doctor and a Towel

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

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For some, Douglas Adams is just the guy who wrote that weird book about towels, the Universe and everything else, but a few might know him for what he really is: a great sci-fi writer, working on several episodes of Doctor Who and, of course, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In Dirk Gently, we get to see, as described by the author “a kind of ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic, mainly concerned with mud, music and quantum mechanics”. It basicly sums up the idea behind the plot that revolves around the murder of Gordon Way, very rich, very powerfull and very annoying, his […]

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1/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

Better than the first one; still not as good as Hitchhiker

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

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This is not really a sequel, as it has nothing at all to do with the first Dirk Gently book. This is a totally new adventure: one that makes slightly more sense than the first one, but still isn’t as good as the Hitchhiker series. That seems unfair, though – what could possibly be as good as Hitchhiker? Kate is an American living in London who becomes embroiled with a large blond man who claims to be Thor. Why Thor takes a shine to her is kind of glossed over, but hey! It’s funny, so who cares. Dirk Gently is […]

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12/2/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:22 |

Fundamental Interconnectedness of high school flashbacks

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

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I decided to reread this before the BBC show started, which turned out to be totally unnecessary. I thoroughly enjoyed the first episode of the show, but it has nothing to do with the book, except for one line about the “fundamental interconnectedness of all things,” and maybe some passing references to pizza and Thor. Still gonna watch, still gonna enjoy the book. Dirk Gently doesn’t actually show up in his own book until page 85, and then he disappears again for a while. This is really Richard’s story, and we follow him as his life gets weirder and weirder […]

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10/24/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:19 |

“To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, Martin Freeman (narrator)

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After discovering that I had not, in fact, read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I rectified that this year, and giving the audiobook version a spin I was excited. The story I was familiar with came alive and Stephen Fry was simply delightful as the narrator. I was so enthralled that I immediately downloaded the second book in the series The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, from Audible without thinking much about it. After finishing Pronto I decided to revisit the satirical world of Douglas Adams and set out to listen to another leg of the journey […]

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9/26/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:82 |

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (Narrator)

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I swear I thought I read this book, I have not. I really honestly and truly do not know how a story I know so well, with lines I quote all the time, could have snuck past me. I blame the movie. And the television show. And pop culture? I don’t know. But this has all been solved because now I have read it. Or Stephen Fry read it to me and it was delightful.  For anyone else who may have missed this one, here’s the basic idea. Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic […]

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7/25/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:56 |

Don’t Panic

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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I have read this book so many times. I’ve also listened to the audiobook quite a bit — when I was in middle school, I duped myself a copy from the library, and used to listen to it at night and fall asleep to it. As a result, I have massive amounts of it memorized, although I tend to remember some bits more than others (probably the parts at the beginnings of each tape). I haven’t listened to it or re-read it in a while though, so when I saw it as a free e-audiobook download from my library, I jumped back […]

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6/1/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:85 |

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