Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul

, #2

Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages

English language

Published Feb. 15, 1991 by Pocket.

ISBN:
978-0-671-74251-5
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4 stars (13 reviews)

Douglas Adams for those who may not be familiar with either him or his books writes rather tangentialy than linearly, this consideration may help those, possibly especially Americans who don't seem to fathom his humour. This thought may also help explain the rationale behind the eponymous hero Svlad Cjelli the Holistic Detective, with a zen approach to driving, who's as likely to follow a vehicle which seems to know where it's going, it may not lead where he thinks he has to go, but he invariably finds the journey worthwhile. Here in the UK there has finally been radio versions of both Holistic Detective novels, tragic that the BBC had to wait until Douglas Adams had died before they commissioned them. They featured the English comic Harry Enfield, and worked after their fashion, especially if you heard them before you read them. They also took a more literal approach to …

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Great for Adams's fans, a bit stretched for the normal people.

4 stars

Surreal, but a bit jumbled. I liked it, but could have been a short story.

The topic discussed the most was the topic of cheating the systems' constraints and the backlash of consequences.

It's somewhere between 3¹/₂ and 4, but I'm giving it 4 because it is seriously underrated. Of course, it's less of a banger compared to the first book, but there's no need to go Gentle Giant fan on it.

Gentle Giant was a British progressive rock band that released a number of albums so novel and captivating, almost nobody have understood them. But those who did, at least to a degree, got very upset when they have started making music that was just good, if not a little poppy. It led to the bands eventual demise.

Granted, Douglas Adams neither cares, nor cared for the people calling his works "rambling" or his thinking too shallow (or indeed …

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