I recently decided to re-read Douglas Adams “detective”
novels and so picked up The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. It was just as entertaining as I remembered
it being. If you haven’t read it, it
features Dirk Gently (the holistic detective), an exploding airport terminal,
hordes of disgruntled gods, and some seriously dark-souled lawyers (cue the
lawyer jokes). Reading it now I have to
think that some of the underlying ideas here seriously influenced Gaiman’s book
American Gods.
