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	Dirk Gently - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A dirk is a type of knife, and the verb "to dirk" is an archaic synonym for "to stab"; therefore a literal translation of the name "Dirk Gently" would be the odd phrase "stab gently".
		Dirk Gently is actually not this character's "real" name; it is presented early on in the first book that it is a pseudonym for the much less memorable "Svlad Cjelli." (This may not be his "real name" either; it is simply the name by which Richard MacDuff knew him at St. Cedd's College.
		Dirk Gently is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dirk_Gently (331 words)

	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dirk Gently (also known by a number of other names, including Svlad Cjelli), the perpetually broke operator of the title detective agency that operates based on the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things." He specializes in missing cats and messy divorces.
		Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency has been compared to Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid because Dirk Gently is actually based on the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things"—which is virtually the same thing as the chaos theory.
		Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a novel by Douglas Adams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dirk_Gently's_Holistic_Detective_Agency (844 words)

	MRB: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
		Dirk Gently is an example of a breakthrough work: An attempt at something quite artistically new, which is all the more amazing because it actually succeeds.
		Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a novel by Douglas Adams.
		This is a similar to Dirk Gently, who also has a gift bordering on the supernatural, but is more its victim than anything else because his talent is not at ALL within his control.
	www.medical-research-books.com /mrb-books-reviewed/0671746723.html (1525 words)

	Dirk Gently
		Dirk Gently's holistic approach to detective work means that he believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
		Dirk Gently's Holistic Detetective Agenecy was put on by the Abingdon Old Gaol Theatre Company in the Unicorn Theatre, housed within the Abbey buildings in Abingdon.
		It comes as no surprise then, that when Dirk Gently becomes involved in investigating the murder of Gordon Way - his old Cambridge room mate's employer - that he is far more interested in an old tutor's conjuring trick than the details of the murder.
	users.breathe.com /kingkarlos1/gangweb/Dirk/Dirk.html (311 words)

	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
		Dirk is a slightly overweight and poor detective a bit off the deep end.
		The cases he solve he much to do with the supernatural.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Vault/9112/dirk.htm (34 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul/Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
		This production includes two of Adams's Dirk Gently novels.
		Look for books like The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul/Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by subject:
		Dirk is one of the odder creations in detective fiction, although he isn't odd by the standards of his creator, who also wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0787122807 (461 words)

	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
		Dirk Gently is an example of a breakthrough work: An attempt at something quite artistically new, which is all the more amazing because it actually succeeds.
		Dirk Gently as a character in particular is a truly original creation.
		This is a similar to Dirk Gently, who also has a gift bordering on the supernatural, but is more its victim than anything else because his talent is not at ALL within his control.
	mo-server.no-ip.biz /indian-larry-death-video.html (854 words)

	Blogcritics.org: The Dirk Gently Omnibus
		There's the wholly eccentric Dirk Gently, who only discovered his skills by accident when he was at university (and subsequently had to pull a disappearing act), an electric monk, a very old university professor, Thor (he of mythology), a greedy lawyer and his wife, and an eagle with nasty claws, amongst others.
		Two books in one (Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul), this is a not-so-sci-fi-but-at-least-as-strange offering from the much-loved and much-missed Douglas Adams (of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy fame, for those of you in the dark).
		Dirk, Thor and the nice woman who takes him in are followed more than the characters in the first book.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/02/17/112326.php (1139 words)

	Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
		Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a ghost story, sci-fi thriller, romantic comedy, buddies-on-the-road novel which reexamines the creation of our world through literary allegory, and -- as a bonus -- takes the reader inside the thought processes of a hilariously bored horse.
		Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a delightful book that's even funnier the second, third or fourth read.
		But it's the quirky characters such as Dirk's belligerent ex-secretary and the Electric Monk, whose ability to believe is a big hit in Cambridge -- with or without his horse, that bring Adam's delightful chaos to the novel.
	www.rambles.net /adams_dirk.html (387 words)

	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
		However, I was disturbed by the daunting style-parallels between Dirk Gently and The Guide.
		It seemed to me that Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was highly influenced by that book.
		Personally, while I really loved the Guide series (yes, even Mostly Harmless), I find Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency to be Adams' best work so far (of those I've read, at least).
	www.forum2.org /tal/books/dirk.html (723 words)

	Douglas Adams. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
		Dirk's regular name changes suggested to Richard that he wasn't alone in being treated like this.
		It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!" "Good heavens...!" Reg suddenly seemed to awake with a start from the light doze into which he had gently slipped under the influence of the wine and the reading, and glanced about himself with blank surprise, but nothing had changed.
		At first he waved aside enquiries as to what it was that was bothering him, but eventually he let slip that his mother was going to have to undergo some extremely expensive dental work which, for reasons that he refused to discuss, would have to be done privately, only there wasn't the money.
	www.odessa.net /moshkow/win/ADAMS/dirk1.txt (21252 words)

	Random House: Book Details for The Dirk Gently Omnibus
		Dirk Gently is a detective - well, a sort of detective.
		There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it.
		Random House: Book Details for The Dirk Gently Omnibus
	www.randomhouse.co.uk /catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0434009199 (115 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
		Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is yet another example of the genius that brought us the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
		There is something endearing about Dirk Gently, perhaps it's his oddness that most of us can relate to in some way.
		Most people see the Dirk Gently novels as secondary to the Hitchhikers series, but in my opinion they approach, and in some places exceed, Hitchhikers.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330301624 (941 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
		And the character of Dirk Gently really grows here---he's much more concise and focused, and he doesn't ramble on and on about his philosophical views and methods of detective work as he did in the first book.
		This book, and its predecessor "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", are heavily under-rated due to the major success of the Hitch Hiker "trilogy" by Douglas Adams.
		Here, sleuth Dirk Gently investigates a lawyer and an advertiser who possess the soul of the god Odin.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671742515?v=glance (2264 words)

	DNA/Dirk Gently
		Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a ghost/horror/detective/time travel/romantic comedy epic.
		The Dirk Gently ending explanation in the FAQ
		The Ultra-Complete Index to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
	www.douglasadams.com /creations/dirk.html (67 words)

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	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Book Review)
		For the record, Dirk Gently and the rock band Starship have nothing in common.
		Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency takes Adams’s wit in a whole new direction (no pun intended).
		This may sound odd to you, but since Dirk has built his agency on the principles of quantum mechanics, a system in which everything seems, on some level, to be linked to everything else, it really all makes sense.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/6513/41835 (611 words)

	Dirk Gently Review
		Although the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series is better known, the Dirk Gently series is better written.
		Douglas Adams has gained considerable skill in his craft over the years and reading the two series back to back really shows this to be true.
	science-fiction-reviews.com /book-series/Dirk-Gently.html (44 words)

	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
		Dirk Gently attempts to solve a number of mysteries (including how that couch got stuck on the landing) using holistic methods.
	www.kermanenterprises.com /books/1.htm (42 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
		Clearly, Adams' enjoyed writing about Dirk, and his audience enjoyed reading it, because the following year came The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, in which Gently finds himself answering the question - "if that was an act of god, which god, and what was it doing in the departures lounge of Heathrow Airport".
		Most intriguingly, the character of "Professor Chronotis" is very clearly the same professor that Gently came to meet later - and it makes a lot of sense that he should be a Time Lord.
		That was in 1979; in 1992, the existing footage was released on video for avid Who fans; then, in 2003, the BBC and Big Finish adapted the script, entitled Shada, as an audio series and animated webcast.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A2774649 (838 words)

	Dirk Gently
		This makes Dirk's investigation a trifle complicated, but the semi-intrepid Dirk Gently has never been one to let a few odd circumstances get in the way of his holistic detecting...
		And in 2002 there was a new Adams collection called The Salmon Of Doubt, which features (among other things) a story fragment that's the beginning of a third (and now-never-to-be-completed) Dirk Gently novel.
		C) left no instructions on how to proceed with whatever it is that he (or she) wants Dirk to do.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /eyes/dirk.html (458 words)

	Biblio: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Adams- Douglas: Details
		Fans of the British television series DOCTOR WHO will find DIRK GENTLY of interest, as it borrows plot elements from two scripts that Douglas Adams wrote for the series: "City of Death" and "Shada" (the filming of the latter was never completed due to a labor dispute).
		DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY was followed by a second Dirk book, THE LONG DARK TEATIME OF THE SOUL.
		Although DIRK GENTLY has never reached the same popularity as the HITCHHIKER'S books, it has a certain cult classic status.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/23975424.html (388 words)

	Dirk Gently's Holistic I-Ching Calculator
		This I-Ching calculator is based on that Dirk Gently uses in the book 'The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul', by Douglas Adams.
		Dirk was not certain if this was a programming error or an insight beyond his ability to fathom, but he was crazy about it anyway, enough to hand over £20 of ready cash for the thing.'
		First click on the link to Open the Calculator in a new browser window (you'll need a frames capable browser with Javascript enabled).
	www.thateden.co.uk /dirk (369 words)

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	Tech Support Guy Forums - View Profile: Dirk Gently
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	forums.techguy.org /member.php?u=63303 (55 words)

	Galaxy Bookshop - Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #01)
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	www.galaxybooks.com.au /items.asp?id=7250 (46 words)

	Holistic - Welcome Your Madness
		Welcome to Holistic, the only Fanlistings approved fanlisting for the two books that make up the Dirk Gently series: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul.
		I know there must be many questions swirling around in your head just now--who is Dirk Gently?
		Well, the answers to most of your questions can be answered in the FAQ.
	fans.left-untold.net /dirkgently (91 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - bethany - dirk gently's cousin - U184011
		my favourite dirk gently book is the long, dark teatime of the soul.
		bethany - dirk gently's cousin hasn't added any friends to their list.
		If so, this is how it'll appear to other Researchers who visit your Personal Space.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/U184011 (239 words)

	FictionPress.Com Profile : Dirk-Gently
		Ahem, Yes, anyway...soon you shall have more dirk than ever before...and i might actually finish something this time around...sorry folks but as my old stories go...i dunno if im gonna be able to continue em.
		Tod is seeing a psychiatrist because he is believed to be criminally insane.
		Oh my god, I cant count that high!
	www.fictionpress.com /~dirkgently (281 words)

	Mark A. R. Kleiman: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
		If you found the Hitchhiker series too juvenile, and are curious what an Umberto Eco story would sound like as told by Mark Twain with an Oxbridge inflection, I urge you to try the Dirk Gently books.
		So I'm re-reading Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency instead.
		Mark A. Kleiman: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
	www.markarkleiman.com /archives/000080.html (168 words)

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