Twisty plot, good fun, but you do have to pay a little bit of attention. It takes quite a while to find out what exactly the problem is going to be, and then you have to deal with the old trope of the innocent person being thought to be the murderer and needing to prove their innocence (which doesn't last too long, thankfully). At the end, it's a bit abrupt and takes a bit of thinking about it (hard to do since it involves some odd logic) but the world ignores any paradoxes and just goes right on existing. ( )

I was a fan of the first few Hitchhiker Guide books so I thought I'd check out this one. It is very much a Douglas Adams book with extremely intelligent lunacy throughout the entire book. Stuff so crazy that it just might actually work. However as others have stated this book isn't as chock full of this stuff as the Hitchhiker Guide books were. I found it to be interesting and a fairly easy read, but it left me kind of lacking at the end. ( )

This is a typical murder mystery. The owner of a corporation dies and the one due to inherit looks guilty. Did I say typical, it was written by Douglas Adams, so it isn't. This story involves a software program that converts business data into music, a detective who is in denial of his psychic abilities, a dead guy, a horse, an electric monk, and - as is typical for Douglas Adams, a perfectly ordinary sofa. Now add a 4 billion year-old spaceship and the British phone system, and I think you have it. ( )

Oddballs, including the private investigator.

Yep, I tried this book because I liked the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and probably needn't have bothered, as it was only ok. Some more of the odd sort of things happening, but not in a funny way, really, as the titular character looks into the bizarre actions of a friend, and the strange goings on that may tie everything together.

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Sweet storyline. Not as heavy a satire as the Hitchhiker series. I felt this was more adjusted to the genre that his other novels. ( )