DIRK

"Six by nine. Forty-two."

"That's it. That's all there is."

"I always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."

The phrase above is from one of the most popular books ever written, at least in our part of the universe. Douglas Adams wrote the book "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", which was published in 1979, and it is from this book I've extracted the quotation. A computer designed to come up witht the answer to "Life, the Universe and Everything" delivers the answer "42", which is not met with gratitude from the people who made the computer. Another gigantic computer is made to figure out what the question is that can fit to the answer, which life itself is part of, but unfortunately this computer is destroyed just before the question is ready.

The computer is Earth.

Douglas Adams died in 2001 only 49 years old, which is a tragedy for all good story-writing. Before he died he also wrote two books about the worn-down private detective Dirk Gently, who is thrown into several more or less crazy happenings. You always laugh when you read Douglas Adams' books. I often choose to read one of his books when I want a break from the boring books and texts I have to read at the University. They often combine norse Gods, time-travel, smart girls and the stupid guys who are in love with them.

Adams was a very smart man, with lot of crazy ideas, and his followers are mostly geeks and nerds, which isn't that weird, seeing that he uses lot of facts that are a bit scientific. But you don't really need any background information to enjoy his books. They are incredibly detailed and everything is explained at least one time, and as long as you keep an eye out for the detailes, the reading experience is awesome!