What: Douglas Adams's other recurring hero, Dirk Gently, returns in this sequel to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Do you want Norse gods? We've got those. An exploding airport check-in counter? That, too. A hostile stray eagle? A filthy refrigerator? An I Ching calculator? Check, check, check.
Comparable to: It's all about gods on earth, like Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips or American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Opening lines: "It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression 'As pretty as an airport.'"
Representative quote: “There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
Bonus representative quote (and excellent life advice): "I don't go to mythical places with strange men.”
How to get it: It's in print and also available as an ebook.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Gods Behaving Badly was Rec. #250.
Get introduced to Dirk Gently in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Rec. #162). You can also revisit a good chunk of the Douglas Adams oeuvre in List #25.
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