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Violence
Barely any
Some supernatural menace; a ghost with intentions; mild thriller elements
Language
Barely any
Mild language; Adams's signature British wit
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Some pub drinking in the British tradition
Emotional Intensity
Some
The philosophical comedy of radical interconnectedness; mild existential themes
What this book is about
Richard MacDuff is having a difficult evening: a sofa is inexplicably stuck in a staircase, his boss wants to know why the accounting software is writing Coleridge, and his old university friend Dirk Gently (who charges for finding his own cat on the basis that it could be connected to anything) has appeared. Adams's post-Hitchhiker's novel is less manic and more structurally ambitious—a genuine mystery plot in which everything is connected, for reasons both cosmic and absurd.
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