The dark tea time of the soul6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Though the idea of humans and gods sharing a world in a strange symbiotic relationship has legs, Adams’ at times appears to be running on fumes. If the above-mentioned were more compelling character studies, this would’ve been an acceptable arrangement however, the thing is that Adams’ Norse gods sound woefully out of place, and not in the same sense as was seen in Thor. ![]() Perhaps those fruitcakes didn’t take to the eponymous Dirk Gently, given most of The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul is devoted to Kate, Odin, and Thor, Dirk merely happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time on occasion. And no one can honestly think its plot gels to a greater degree, the story seeming, by Adams’ standards, cobbled together, its many disparate elements never quite coming together, in addition to it having some rather inconsistent pacing. To them, I ask, in what way? Surely they’re not speaking of the quality of Adams’ prose, which was arguably at its best in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, nor the frequency with which laughs are had. Over on Goodreads, there are a couple users with the gall to claim that The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul is superior to its predecessor. ![]()
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