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The Salmon of Doubt

Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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The Salmon of Doubt

By: Douglas Adams
Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry, Stephen Mangan
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Read by Stephen Mangan (Green Wing, Dirk Gently) and featuring an introduction written and read by Stephen Fry, and an epilogue read by Richard Dawkins.

The Salmon of Doubt is Douglas Adams's indispensable guide to life, the universe and everything. It includes short stories and eleven chapters of a Dirk Gently novel that Douglas Adams was working on at the time of his death, and features an introduction by Stephen Fry.

This sublime collection dips into the wit and wisdom of the man behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, uncovering his unique comic musings on everything from his school-trousers to malt whisky and from the letter Y through to his own nose, via atheism, hangovers and fried eggs.

These hilarious collected writings reveal the warmth, enthusiasm and ferocious intelligence behind this most English of comic writers; a man who was virtually an unofficial member of the Monty Python team.

Douglas Adams on his passion for P. G. Wodehouse, The Beatles and the perfect cup of tea alone make this a must-have collection and a remarkable sign-off from one of the best loved writers of all time.

Start from the beginning of the surreal Dirk Gently series with Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

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Critic reviews

A pleasure to read
Few recent writers have had such an infectious prose style as Adams. With his fondness for paradox, his galactic perspective on things and his wonderful way with meaningful nonsense his are the books which have launched a trillion quips (Robert McFarlane)
All stars
Most relevant
Mr Mangan is once again just perfect.

Still after all this time "I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
Douglas Adams,"
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Heartfelt stuff

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So good to hear this collection, super sad that the dirk gently book was unfinished as it was, as ever, laugh out loud.

A sad sad loss. Wherever he may be, I hope he has his towel with him

Wonderful and sad

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A posthumous collection of writing recovered from Douglas Adams’s various Apple computers, plus 11 chapters of an unfinished Dirk Gently novel. I preferred the earlier essays and fragments. But the Dirk Gently stuff is quite interesting because it’s a sequel to “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”. It has provided me with further oxygen and direction for my Douglas Adams deep-dive.

Posthumous essays and an unfinished Dirk Gently novel

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This should never had been written as a Dirk Gently book. A random collection of the work Douglas Adams would have been so much better. I came away from the actual Gently part of the book lost and dissatisfied with the outcome. This may be a bad version of the book as there is no forward and Stephen Fry is no where in the book and only mentioned once by Stephen M. at the end in the acknowledgement.

Disappointed

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It is a mish mash of stuff the DA didn't want to publish. I love his stories and his writing style. This has no story and is very disappointing.
I skipped through the early chapters and gave up half way through.

clearly not something Douglas would have published if he was still alive

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