The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul

Every single book is yet another inconceivable adventure conceived by Mr. Adams. This one pits the troubles of norse gods against the wits of our favorite private detective. When you try to boil away all the fun ways that he constructs sentences, the plot almost seems logical. But then you realize that there is simply no way that any normal person could have contemplated the circumstances under which these events could occur. What's also neat, is that in most of the mysteries that I have read, the authors builds to some crucial and incredible point and then starts a downward sequence of relatively credible events to get you back to the beginning. With Adams, he gets to that incredible crucial point, and then continues to move in the direction of incredible to get you back to the beginning. I'd also like to give him props for taking the time to mention his less from exploring the earth. For example, this time he took a couple sentences to describe how the noise in the oceans made by ships has literally blinded the echo location of sea faring mammals. It was a random pair of sentences, but like all of his random sentences, they make you think.

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