Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Not Up to Usual High Standards
  • Not as good as Mankell's others
  • Linda Wallander's debut
  • A Cerebral Detective Novel
  • Wallander Series Jumps a Generation
Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery
Henning Mankell , and Ebba Segerberg
Manufacturer: New Press
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Book Description

The internationally acclaimed crime writer introduces a new, young heroine with a familiar father.

Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. Meantime, she is living with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are driving each other crazy. Nor will they be able to escape each other when she moves out. Her father is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a veteran of the Ystad police force, whom she will have to work alongside.

Linda's boredom doesn't last long. Soon she is embroiled in the case of her childhood friend Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared. As the investigation proceeds, she makes a few rookie mistakes. They are understandable, but they are also life-threatening. And as the case her father is working on dovetails with her own, something far more calculated and dangerous than either could have imagined begins to emerge.

Already an international bestseller, Before the Frost inaugurates Henning Mankell's new mystery series about Linda Wallander, and also features Stefan Lindman of The Return of the Dancing Master.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Not Up to Usual High Standards.......2006-07-29

When Henning Mankell is in form, he is one of the best writers working in the crime novel genre. His book, "One Step Behind" is one of the finest crime novels I have ever read. On the surface, Kurt Wallander is not the most appealing of heroes. He is a middle aged Swedish detective with a gloomy disposition. However, his remarkable intelligence and driving energy make him a pleasure to know.

In this novel, the center of gravity switches from Kurt to his daughter, Linda Wallander. Linda is about to join the Ystad Police Force and becomes involved in her own mystery when a childhood friend dissapears. Linda Wallander has a lot of the negative aspects of Wallander's gloomy personality and none of the charm. For a crime novel to really work, the reader needs to sympathize with the protagonist. In the final analysis, I did not like Linda Wallander or her difficult relationship with her father.

3 out of 5 stars Not as good as Mankell's others.......2006-06-16

Having read about eight of Mankell's previous novels, I was anxious to get my hands on this one. First I'll give a plot summary and then I'll explain my disappointment in this book.

Linda Wallander, daughter of Kurt Wallander, is eager to get her police uniform and begin her new position. Having just completed Police Academy she is sensitive to what goes on around her and when she is unable to contact her friend Anna, who has stood her up, she begins to fear for her friend's safety. Her Dad dismisses all of this as poppycock until a second friend, Zeba also goes missing. An event in Zeba's past offers a possible connection to two murders the police are currently investigating. Though she's not officially a police officer, Linda's Dad allows her to participate in the investigation.

And this is where things begin to go awry. Some of Linda's amateur tactics such as peeping through windows and going off on her own in a time of great danger seemed just plain dumb. I kept wondering why Mankell had chosen a plot in which his new heroine was not yet on the police force, and despite her training at the Academy still a rank amateur. And why at this late date make Kurt Wallander out as a complete jerk (in some ways) unless to invite sympathy for his daughter. Didn't work for me. I miss the old Kurt.

The book is very well written as are all of Mankell's earlier works, but this time I felt that the plot dragged a bit. Still, I look forward to Mankell's next book in this new series, and hope it will be better than this inauspicious start.

4 out of 5 stars Linda Wallander's debut.......2006-01-07

Linda, daughter of the infamous Kurt Wallander, star of several Mankell novels, has just graduated from the police academy, and is a few days away from starting her job at the police station her father works at when her friend Anna disappears.

As she tags along with her father on an investigation, it soon becomes obvious that Anna's disappearance and a woman's murder could be linked, but the problem is in figuring out what that link is.

This well written novel is fast-paced and will keep you turning the pages late into the night. It shows us the tensions that exist between father and daughter, as well as the deep love that they have for each other. Also, the reader can see just how similar they really are: stuborn and determined. It is also clear from this book that Linda Wallander is here to stay, and should make an appearance in future Mankell creations.

5 out of 5 stars A Cerebral Detective Novel.......2005-07-12

In this the ninth of Henning Mankell's detective mysteries about Police Office Kurt Wallander, his daughter Linda has just finished policy academy when this extremely-well written novel that appeals equally to both the head and heart begins. It has so much going for it: a very complicated plot but one that is very timely, characters you care about deeply, good writing, thoughtful commentary on relationships, mortality, religious cults, and finally-- without giving away the story-- a tribute to the U. S. and the tragedy of September 11, 2001.

Unlike many detective mysteries, this one is solved by police officers instead of, say, hairdressers or journalists or college English professors, making the story much more realistic. How many hairdressers in real life, for example, take time out from dyeing roots to avenge the dead?

There are beautiful passages here on a variety of subjects including death: "You only have so many races in your life. You just have to try to win a many of them as you can." And "Births and death are going on all around us all the time. But the dying seems more pronounced when you reach the front of the line. Now that my father [Kurt Wallander's] is dead there's no one ahead of me anymore."

This fine novel certainly rises about the genre of detective fiction. It is reminiscent of such first-class novels as Janette Turner Hospital's OYSTER and Margaret Atwood's THE HANDMAID'S TALE, just to name two.

5 out of 5 stars Wallander Series Jumps a Generation.......2005-06-23

This novel begins with a short opening chapter in which a nameless narrator describes how he escaped from the bloodbath that culminated Jim Jones People's Temple cult in Jamestown, Guyana in 1978. The action then switches to southern Sweden in late August 2001. Inspector Wallander has to investigate an odd report of burning swans on a local lake. Soon afterwards in another strange incident a calf is burnt alive. Meanwhile Wallander's daughter, Linda, is in town, recently having completed her training to be a policewoman and now at something of a loose end until she starts up officially as one of her father's colleagues. Her old schoolfriend Anna surprises her with the news that her father, who had disappeared when she was a very small girl, has reappeared. Then Anna herself vanishes and Linda, unable to convince her father to take the matter very seriously, goes off to investigate by herself.

After eight instalments of Wallander Mankell seemed to get a bit fed up and gave us the engaging `Return of the Dancing Master' in which a new protagonist Stefan Lindman goes chasing fascists around rather more northerly parts of Sweden. Here we come back to the familiar territory of Ystad but the focus shifts somewhat to the next generation. Indeed `Dancing Master's apparent departure from the series is now worked in as here is Lindman newly transferred to Ystad after recovering from his cancer and maybe Linda starting to fancy him a bit...

The story resembles `Dancing Master' again in the way the main protagonist's life is complicated by a lack of clear official status. In `Dancing Master' Lindman was on sick leave, away from his home turf, offering the local cops some outside assistance they weren't particularly keen to receive. Here Linda is a rookie whose first day as a proper cop is imminent but hasn't quite arrived.

As we now expect with Mankell, it's a great read, intriguing and beautifully plotted with believable vivid characters. As again is usual for him the story is perhaps a bit to grandiose in its large global political themes to be altogether credibly foisted on this tiny rural police precinct. As always it's all such terrific fun we forgive him instantly and look forward keenly to the next instalment. (Though I did feel that Mankell's studied timing of his story of murderous religious fanaticism to end neatly on September 11th, 2001 was decidedly contrived and most definitely overdoing it.)
Before the Frost (Linda Wallander Mystery)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Interesting But Lacks Mystery: Mostly A Compelling and Entertaining Light Read
  • Great mystery, great characters
  • A family affair-- the introduction of Linda Wallander
  • I hope he keeps writing Wallander Thrillers
  • Like father, like daughter
Before the Frost (Linda Wallander Mystery)
Henning Mankell
Manufacturer: The Harvill Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Interesting But Lacks Mystery: Mostly A Compelling and Entertaining Light Read.......2007-03-10

As a brief point of reference, I have purchased and read seven of the nine Wallander novels and I am roughly familiar with the plots of the remaining two, i.e.: Firewall and The Fifth Woman.

The present novel is average in that series, i.e.: good entertainment but not a great novel. It is well written and it is a compelling read. It is similar in length to his later novels - about 500 pages - and it is well written with interesting characters. There is a very minor international element to the story. It is interesting to read about Linda but her role and the plot stretches the imagination to the breaking point.

I thank fellow reviewer Leonard Fleisig for bringing this author to my attention. The writing is superb and if for example you like Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series you will love this book.

In the following comments, I have excluded elements of the plot that would reveal the story.

For Wallander fans, this is novel # 9 where Linda moves onto center stage replacing her father as the protagonist. The story is set in Ystad, in Southern Sweden, and it takes place just days before Linda joins the Ystad police force. In many sections Kurt Wallander plays a secondary role or no role. Linda takes the lead while her father reluctantly follows, often after a few shouting matches and the throwing of objects onto the floor or at each other.

The murder mystery element is minimal because the story is a third party narrative where we follow two parallel stories: the story of the killers, and a second story that follows Detective Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda. So, the reader follows the crimes as they take place and the reader knows what is happening; there is no mystery with regard to "who did it." The only "mystery" here is when will Wallander and his daughter solve the crime? As we reach the end, the two stories converge and of course we can assume the Wallanders will solve the case. To find out whether they do or not you will have to read the book.

I thought that the novel was good but less than perfect. There are fewer murders than in some prior novels, which are good, and there is a lot written about the thoughts of Linda - including flashbacks to her childhood. If you are not familiar with the Mankell style, the standard Wallander formula is a story set in Southern Sweden, with a series of gruesome murders used to tie the story all together. In the other novels, Wallander works around the clock with other police officers including Chief Holgersson, Högland, Martinsson, and the crime scene investigator Nyberg. Wallander is usually in the station smoking and drinking coffee pulling all night sessions until they find the killers. That is mostly gone here but a bit remains. That technique and all the killing is mostly missing here, although some animals are killed and one person is murdered in the first half of the book. Now it is about Linda and her girl friends and how she solves the murder case almost by instinct.

The novel is not as good as Faceless Killers or as good as One Step Behind. Those two are still the best in the series.

5 out of 5 stars Great mystery, great characters.......2007-02-09

I have read nearly all of Mankell's novels and this is one of the very best - the character development is great and the story consistently surprises you. Mankell is tops and he does not resort to overly detailed descriptions of horrific events, but rather focuses on his characters' reactions which is much more effective. If you are new to his writing, you are in for a treat - read them all.

5 out of 5 stars A family affair-- the introduction of Linda Wallander.......2006-12-02

It is becoming nearly standard to add some life to a detective series by introducing a child of the main character (usually a daughter) as someone to follow in the footsteps of the parent. Most writers are not able to make it work (the failure of Cindy Decker in the Kellerman novels springs to mind) but Mankell makes it looks like an easy thing to do. Before the Frost succeeds remarkably well, and is one of my favorites in the Wallander series.

Mankell has a unique knack of dealing with criminals and subjects that would be too far-fetched in the hands of a lesser writer. In Before the Frost, he explores the subject of religious extremism and cults carried to criminal length. It is an interesting plot, and fits well with the general project that his books seem to have of exploring the changing state of Sweden.

Very highly recommended, either for established series readers or for people new to Kurt Wallander.

5 out of 5 stars I hope he keeps writing Wallander Thrillers.......2006-10-05

I read all of Mankells Mysteries with Inspector Wallander and this one as well is just mesmerizing and fascinating. Mankell spins a net out of actions and hints you just can't wait to find out why and how.... I missed my train stop 3 times because I couldnt stop reading! Love Love Love - please more!!!

5 out of 5 stars Like father, like daughter.......2006-08-12

Chief Inspector Kurt Wallender of the Ystad police force is back, but he's not the protagonist this time. That role goes to his daughter, Linda, who was often in the background of the previous novels in this excellent series. Nearly thirty years old, having attempted careers in furniture restoring and the theater, she's finally settled on becoming a cop. Personality-wise, she's very much like her father -- which isn't always a good thing -- but she also seems to have his basic investigative instincts. However, being just out of the academy -- she doesn't even officially start her job for some weeks yet -- she's also prone to all the rookie errors as she becomes involved in the disappearance of a childhood friend who has only recently come back into her life. Dad is working on the brutal murder by beheading of an inoffensive old lady in a forest shack, and (naturally) the two cases creep closer together until everyone is embroiled in a fundamentalist Christian terrorist plot, the roots of which go back to Jonestown. (Mankell has a nice sense of irony, setting all of this in the weeks preceding 9/11.) Linda is an interesting character and I look forward to watching her professional development. Oh, and Stefan Lindman (from The Return of the Dancing Master) has transferred to Ystad, so you know Linda will be seeing some action in her personal life, too.

Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Do not buy the CD set!
  • Not Free SF Reader
  • The Not Long Enough, Not Dark Enough Decaf Tea Time of the Soul
  • typical wit, but ending lacks steam
  • Adams typical wit
Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
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When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this to do with Dirk's latest--and late-- client, found only this morning with his head revolving atop the hit record "Hot Potato"? Amid the hostile attentions of a stray eagle and the trauma of a very dirty refrigerator, super-sleuth Dirk Gently will once again solve the mysteries of the universe...

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Do not buy the CD set!.......2007-10-01

I love Douglas Adams, and I love to hear his recordings of his books.
I like The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul well enough to have worn out my audio tapes.
I bought the CD version, but disk 6 is a messed up recording. It starts repeating parts and pieces of the same chapter over and over and never gets to the end of the book. The end of the story is not included on the last disk. I am not the only one to have found it so. You will be left hanging.

3 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Still odd, this private investigator.


This is much of a muchness with the last book, but the act wears thing after having it done the first time around. Dirk still has dodgy fridge hygiene. The plot if you want to call it that this time has to do with a possible deity, some blowing up of stuff including people, and an annoying album also features.


3 out of 5 stars The Not Long Enough, Not Dark Enough Decaf Tea Time of the Soul.......2007-08-13

The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul is a mostly enjoyable book in Douglas Adams typical style, but it is uncharacteristically soul-less. The book begins, as books are wont to do, by introducing us to a cast of seemingly unconnected characters living seemingly unconnected lives filled with seemingly unconnected events. As the book progresses, these characters, their aforementioned lives, and the aforementioned events come together in strange and mostly interesting ways. The story moves along well enough until near the end. As I read, I eventually reached a point where there were very few pages left to read, and there was still a great deal of explaining left to do. At this point I suspected that the book would end with either; A) A less than adequate explanation for the plot points, or; B) A great deal of explanation jammed into the remaining few pages. Sadly, it turned out to be both. I would like to be able to recommend this work based on the first 7/8ths of the book. But, the final 1/8th of the book goes a long way toward overwhelming the preceeding pages with a hurried, splotchy, and unsatisfying climax. I rarely feel that any book could benefit from actually being longer, but that is indeed the case with Adams' TLDTTOTS. It seems as if the author reached a certain point in the writing process, then lost interest in the project, and wrapped it up as quickly as possible, throwing quality to the wind. If you like Douglas Adams other works, you will probably like this one. If you're not an Adams fan, the ending will leave you feeling decaffinated.

3 out of 5 stars typical wit, but ending lacks steam.......2007-07-25

About the first 75% of this book was full of typical Adams' unpredictable wit, peculiar characters and the most unusual situations ever drempt of. This is why I read Adams' - refreshing to read something which isn't so cold and lacking subplots, which are typically hilarious.

However, the last 25% seemed to be lacking everything one expects from an Adams' novel. The first Holisitc Detective Agency book was much better in regards to cover to cover wit. Long Dark Tea-time just lost all of its steam once it came to the three-quarters point. It was too descriptive and at the same time lacking any humor in the description. It would have been easy to hack out a few of the ending chapters.

Disappointed.

4 out of 5 stars Adams typical wit.......2007-06-10

A good yarn with a sprinkling of wit and attention to detail in linking everyone together and tying up loose ends by the end of the book. Not his best but a good read as long as you like a spot of fantasy and intrigue.
Long Dark Tea Time
Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
  • What No Ending???
  • Brilliant reading ruined by bad mastering
  • Beware, this edition of the audiobook contains mastering errors!
  • A Brilliant Voice. A Brilliant Author!
Long Dark Tea Time
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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars What No Ending???.......2007-04-17

The book itself is typically entertaining except for a horrendous glitch with the recording meaning that the last CD repeats the first few tracks ad nauseum and the book never ends. ARRRRGH. Basically it should be withdrawn from sale and rectified. Don't buy it!!!

1 out of 5 stars Brilliant reading ruined by bad mastering.......2007-03-25

Douglas Adams' reading of The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is truly engaging. The problem with this audio book is two-fold:
1. None of the tracks has any text-encoding. This means that devices that read this information cannot use or display the CD names or track names. So, an iTunes won't read any CD or track names. Nor will any CD player that can show track names.
2. CD #6 of the set repeats the same scene over and over, without ever reaching the ending.

New Millenium Audio destroyed a perfectly enjoyable performance with its poor mastering of the CD.

1 out of 5 stars Beware, this edition of the audiobook contains mastering errors!.......2006-12-25

This is a great book by Douglas Adam's - a work of certifiable genius. My one star review is not for the book itself - which is excellent - but for the poor release of this CD set. Read on for an explanation...

Beware when ordering this 6-CD edition by New Millenium Audio. There is a problem with CD 6 - something went wrong with the mastering process and some of the passages are repeated 2 or 3 times (the bit where Thor & Kate meet the old lady in a shack) - which means that you end up missing the last couple of chapters of the original book!

This is a terrible mistake by the publisher and ruins the ending, because the whole of it is missing thanks to an error which should have been spotted.

I have 2 copies of this set, and they both have the same mastering problem, which leads me to assume that it is not an isolated case.

Buyer beware!

Hopefully, a new version will appear eventually which sorts this out.

5 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Voice. A Brilliant Author! .......2006-08-17

A fortune teller too accurate for his own good, a refridgerator full of loathing, a god with an identity crisis and a dead record company executive... There's no doubt this book has it all! And this audio version even has the voice of the master author himself.

Douglas Adams was a brilliant author who upon his death not only left us with a brilliant body of work, but a body of work he'd read into audio form. As a BBC veteran, Douglas' reading style adds to the listening experience since you're not only listening to a brilliant oration, but an oration with all the author-intended pauses and inflections. This audiobook is one such example of Douglas Adam's read-by-author brilliance.

Considering that in addition to the radio play versions, for some reason the Hitchhiker's audiobooks are being re-released read by a different narrator, I'd snatch up this read-by-author CD version while I still can. At least that's what I did!

SPECIAL NOTE: IT'S UNABRIDGED!!! If you're like me, you did a view of the box cover and heart sank when it said "Abridged." Fortunately, that is not the case! So you get the full unabridged glory of this Douglas Adams masterpiece.

SPECIAL NOTE II: I too just ran into the problems with the last CD. Having listened to the audiobook on cassette years ago. it never occured to me that such a mistake could be made. Fortunately, if you contact Phoenix Books of Beverly Hills, California, you can have the problem rectified. They sent me a replacement CD that WORKS!! Like so much in life success and entertainment belongs to the persistent!
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul & Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • One Amazing Book, Another Pretty Boring
  • Not the Hitchhiker's Guide Series,.. but still good
  • Adams reads some of his best work
  • The long dark rambling of the boredom&dirk gentlys confusing
  • The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul and Dirk Gently
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul & Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One Amazing Book, Another Pretty Boring.......2005-12-27

Dirk Gently is probably Douglas Adam's best written book and has an extremely well defined plot. The humor as good as ever, I laughed out loud on many occassions. The notion of "fundamental interconnectedness of things" that Adams introduces in this book is quite powerful and yet quite humorous. The problem of the stuck couch in an impossible position, missing cats, ancient professors in universities, an electric monk - a multiple set of oddities all fall into place into a great pattern.

I found Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul a bit boring. It is interesting in parts but on the whole there's much new stuff in what Adams says.

On the whole the book is a great buy - if you liked Hitchhiker's series at all, you would most certainly love Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Guaranteed.

4 out of 5 stars Not the Hitchhiker's Guide Series,.. but still good.......2005-02-09

A previous reviewer has noticed that this work is really nothing like the Hitchhiker's Guide books. While this is true, this does not make this a bad book. It is just that it is almost in a different genre.

If you were expecting the hilarity that is the HGTTG series, you may be surprised. But if you enjoy detective stories that make you think, you'll love these books. Just realize that Adams often doesn't expressly tie up all the loose ends: he expects the reader to be able to reason well enough to figure it out.

5 out of 5 stars Adams reads some of his best work.......2001-08-24

After reading the five (!) books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, I turned to his two books featuring Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective. Although it took me a bit of time to warm to these stories, I wound up liking them even better than the HhGttG trilogy, much to my surprise. This audiobook version of these two excellent books is everything you would want in such a thing - unabridged and read by the author. On the downside, it is slightly pricey, and on the way far downside, it is out of print, and therefore a little hard to find. (Here's hoping that is remedied soon.) The late and much lamented (by me in any case) Douglas Adams was a writer of rare talent. He could write books about great subjects such as the origin of life and the meaning of existence, and make them riotously funny and entertaining. I believe that the only thing that will keep him from being recognized as a major writer is that he wrote science fiction. Too bad, because science fiction or not, his stuff was superb.

1 out of 5 stars The long dark rambling of the boredom&dirk gentlys confusing.......2001-01-17

... agency.

Well,I love his other books, you know. hhgttg (hithchikers guide to the galaxy) trilogy, In fact it's my favorite book. But this one SUUUCKS!! I can't remember how many times I fell asleep while tring to read this monstrosity. I still haven't figured out why the horse was upstairs to begin with, and now,I really don't care.

5 out of 5 stars The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul and Dirk Gently.......2000-03-26

Being a long-time fan of Douglas Adams and his "Hitchhiker Series" doesn't automatically mean you will fall in love with Dirk Gently, but...

If you have any love of Norse Mythology, and enjoy a great Detective story...you will love these stories immensely.

Lurking refrigerators, redheaded housekeepers, Odin, Thor, jets, the birth of new Gods, Valhalla, cripsy linen sheets, exploding desks at airports, missing passports, pregnant cats, Coke machines, time warps, hot potatoes, rock groups, soothsayers, strange horoscopes, greed, history, mythology, and of course at the center of it all is the humor of Douglas Adams.

These are two of the most thoroughly enjoyable stories to be found on tape, and I give it 5 stars, it never flags, it holds your attention to the last paragraph of the last page. And it is especially nice to hear them read in the author's own voice, unabridged. Every little jewel is included, nothing is lost in the transition from print to spoken story.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    Douglas Adams
    Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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    Binding: Hardcover

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    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • Adam's Best Work Yet
    • Duff, duff, duff.
    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

    Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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    Binding: Hardcover
    ASIN: 0671929267

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Adam's Best Work Yet.......1998-04-24

    This novel marked the beginning of Douglas Adam's career as a Serious Writer - but I mean that in a good way. Unfortunately, it was also the end of his career - at least of books that he personally approved.

    This is the story of the Norse gods among us, one trying to cope with the ambitious mediocrity of the modern world while the other seems to be the cause of it.
    Read this if only because your lit profs have probably never heard of it, but wouldn't like it if they had.

    1 out of 5 stars Duff, duff, duff........1998-01-23

    After the appalling "Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency", (mostly recycled from an unfinished Dr. Who script Adams wrote), we have the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Possibly the worst novel Adams has written, (although the last two HitchHikers books are pretty bad), it has no redeemming features whatsoever. Duff, duff, duff.
    3 Douglas Adams HBs: Starship Titanic, Complete Hitchhiker's Guide, Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
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      3 Douglas Adams HBs: Starship Titanic, Complete Hitchhiker's Guide, Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
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      3 Hardbacks, The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide includes Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for the Fish, Young Zaphod Plays it Safe.
      Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul 1ST Edition Signe
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        Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul 1ST Edition Signe
        Douglas Adams
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        Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul Signed 1S
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          Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul Signed 1S
          Douglas Adams
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          THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL
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            THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL
            DOUGLAS ADAMS
            Manufacturer: PAN BOOKS
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            ASIN: B000S34FA0
            The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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              The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
              Douglas Adams
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