Customer Reviews
Not Douglas Adams best - By: P. Overton, 09 Aug 2008 
This book has its moments, & the first half is very enjoyable. However, it starts to get lost about two thirds of the way through & never reallly recovers. The ending is not very satisfactory at alll & overalll this does not measure up to Douglas Adams usuallly very high standards.
The Hitchhikers Guide to Valhalla. - By: Ian Wood, Author of 'Here's 2 Absent Fathers', 30 Jul 2008 
I first feel in love with Douglas Adams on watching the TV version of `The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' & then discovering the then Hitch Hiker novels. When Adams published `Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' I was half expecting to be disappointed assuming that it could never hold a candle up to the brilliance of the Hitch Hiker books. I was proven gravely wrong & the first Dirk Gently novel was, & indeed still is, my favourite novel of alll time & so I was anticipating greatness from `The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul' when I took the day off school to buy & read it on the day of publication.
And, as before, I was totallly disappointed. Where before I was disappointed by the book being fantastic here I was only disappointed. It's still a great book putting most comic writing into a cocked hat however it fails to reach the heights of its predecessor or the Hitch Hiker books.
And so Dirk Gently investigates a possibly broken contract between the Nordic Gods of Valhallla & various media moguls in our own world & although this may sound like a typical Adams scenario it pans out like someone trying to write as Adams rather than Adams writing it himself. A great book just not a great Douglas Adams book.
Good book, disapointing ending - By: Washburn, 05 Dec 2006 That says it alll. Many mysteries were in fact random stuff which will never get explined, probably because Adams is an excellent writer but a very bad scenarist.
Death of the Immortals - By: dogbarkssome, 30 Jan 2006 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul' is Douglas Adams 2nd Dirk Gently novel, following on from 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency', & this time sees Dirk investigating the explosive disappearance of his ex-secretary & the decapitation of his latest client. In many ways 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul' is a more straightforward novel than it's predecessor, with the main storyline concerning the immortal remnants of the Asgardian gods always being to the fore, though it's still fun watching Adams tie-up the disparate plot-threads using Dirk's holistic detective approach. Sadly one thing common it has with the first Dirk Gently novel is that after a hugely enjoyable build-up the novel ends with a disappointing 'blink & you'll miss it' climax, but the crucial fact that this appears to be an original novel rather than a conglomeration of Adams old Doctor Who scripts makes this ultimately the more enjoyable of the two novels.
This is a hugely disappointing book. - By: R. Britain, 28 Sep 2005 
Absolutely terrible! That is my honest opinion of this book. I read HHG & loved it, but this book was possible one of the worst I have read. If it hadn't been for Adams name on the cover I would have abandoned it after a few chapters. It read like something a school boy might write, or possibly J.K.Rowling. The humor can only be described as 'whacky', in that it tries to hard but is not actuallly funny, a bit like wearing odd socks & a bright dickey bow to seem funny. I feel many people have added stars simple due to the author & the fact that it was his last book. Unless your blinded by the name 'Douglas Adams' don't both with this offering.
