Dinara Tengri

Title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1) Author: Douglas Adams Originally published in 1987 Source: I read the 1989 Pan Books edition that I found in the school library.  Blurb from the author's official website:  Dirk Gently is a private detective who is more interested in telekinesis, quantum mechanics and lunch than fiddling around with fingerprint powder, so his investigations tend to produce startling and unexpected results. A simple search for a missing cat uncovers a bewildered ghost, a secret time-traveller, and the devastating secret that lies behind the whole human history and threatens to bring it to a premature end. Sadly the cat dies. Dinara's Rule #1 for getting a good book rating: Never kill the cat!  For no story, no matter how captivating or fascinating, justifies the suffering and the eventual death of an animal, even a fictional one. Even if the said animal died peacefully. And especially, if Erwin Schrödinger is s...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith My rating: 1 of 5 stars Ok, so this book has been on my "maybe" list for years now and when I saw the trailer for the upcoming movie adaptation, I decided to give it a try. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is the same old story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, except in this version England is suffering from a zombie plague, and the Bennet sisters, their father and Mr. Darcy are all warriors, trained in the deadly arts and fight to protect their motherland from the army of undead. This book bored me out of my mind. I almost didn't finish it, but I'm a person of principles. How can a book that is about love and zombies be so boring and uninteresting? The pacing is slow, the action scenes lack in suspense and the characters are unlikable d-bags. The biggest problem with this book is that the zombie part is just a gimmick. You can cut out all the action scenes and still have a full story. And it would be called *...