The first Dirk Gently is pretty incomprehensible to the mass market. You need at least a passing knowledge of Coleridge to understand it. The second Dirk Gentl

The first Dirk Gently is pretty incomprehensible to the mass market. You need at least a passing knowledge of Coleridge to understand it. The second Dirk Gently is pretty weak, plot-wise. Dirk wanders around for a bit, figures out that the Gods of Asgard are walking the Earth, and barely plays a role in the actual story at all. Given the mess that was the HHGG movie, I'm happy to leave Dirk Gently in the book where he belongs.