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The Salmon of Doubt

By: Douglas Adams
Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry, Stephen Mangan
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Summary

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.
©2002 Douglas Adams (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
Adventure Humorous Private Investigators Short Stories Witty
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Critic reviews

An astonishing comic writer (Neil Gaiman)
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)

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

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.

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