Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams

The thing I most admire about Douglas Adams is his ability to use nonlinear storytelling within a story that progresses chronologically (linearly) through time. That statement’s a bit of an oxymoron considering that a time machine features prominently in this book, but the scenes still proceed chronologically as the characters experience it. However, the story itself emerges nonlinearly — every page is filled with whimsical, seemingly random events that all end up linking with each other, a vast matrix created of many patterns. Like Dirk Gently, we must believe in the fundamental interconnectivity of all things.