I bought whatever I could then lay my teenage hands on, written by Mr. When I was young, I was an enormous fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. To me, it works better in wacky unreal space adventures than in a mystery. Mostly, Tea-Time contains entertaining interludes and observations loosely connected by plot.
The young woman, Kate, is quite literally, taken for a ride and had some of the general non-descriptiveness feel that I always got from Trillian. I don’t know that he ‘solves’ anything so much as stumbles unto the solution. Dirk comes across like a slightly smarter version of Zaphod and Arthur, a strange mix of lucky and clueless. Having been a fan of Hitchhikers and frequent re-listener to Stephen Fry’s reading, I couldn’t help but see similarities between the lead characters. It’s all very puzzling mostly due to the narrative breaks and confused protagonists more than any real mystery on the part of the universe.
Dirk’s own adventures further degenerate into conflicts with a large eagle and a malevolent refrigerator. Most people there are indeed tired and cross, which is why when they discover that their plane has been delayed, or cancelled, or erupted in flames, they tend to overreact.īut an airport is just the beginning of roughly three separate plot lines, give or take a young woman who is thwarted from a vacation to Oslo by a mysterious giant of a man and a fireball blowing up the check-in counter Dirk Gently, a detective who is hired to protect an unethical producer and a mysterious old man who would like to lay in bed and be gently catered to by a team of nursing staff. There is nothing about any airport that is pretty. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only known exception to this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.” Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression ‘As pretty as an airport.’Īirports are ugly. Nonetheless, because it is contains some Douglas Adamsisms that have stuck with me through the years, it still had moments of brilliance. However, unlike American Gods, which resembles it more than a bit, it is entirely more palatable and has 100% less offensive scenes, so there is that (I may have some trouble with statistics here). There is no way easy way to say this, but despite ingredients that should be interesting, it just fails to work for me. Read 2020 Recommended for fans of Douglas Adams ★ ★Īlmost entirely, but not quite, unlike tea–I mean, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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