Coming Soon: Dirk Gently

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Coming soon to BBC4:

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Dirk Gently is by far my most favoritest Douglas Adams book. I would even go so far as to say that it is perhaps the best time travel story ever written. This is quite exciting!
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Holistic Detective Agency?
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I tried reading it in high school; couldn't get my head around it. I'll try it again.

Is this one with the couch that got stuck in the stairway that physics said could not be removed?
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Yes. Well, physics said it could not be there in the first place. Or more exactly the geometry of the building; it was like the building was built around the couch, but clearly that couldn't have been what happened.

I like how many subtle little side things there are in this book that all tie together perfectly in the end. That's what's so brilliant about it. If you enjoy it you really should read it a second time because then you'll be saying things like "Oh! I didn't even notice that before, that's why X is Y! Of course!"
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Maybe they can get Keanu Reeves to be the electric monk.
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No no. That would be all wrong.

The electric monk shouldn't be stoic. He should be played by someone that can pull off wide-eyed wonder. When he believes something it fills him with quiet joy and he is stunned in amazement by the existence of that thing ... even when (usually) it isn't so.

He's a bit stoic when he's not in the midst of such shenanigans, sure, but that's few and far between for him.

I think Kenneth Branagh would be an excellent choice, but I doubt he'd to a BBC4 show like this.
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