The one hundred and fifteenth book: #1187 The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
Quite early on, I made a note about how much the early book felt like an adventure game at times - find item, solve clue, move to the next puzzle. It makes sense - protagonist Dirk Gently approaches the world that way, fully convinced it will make sense and link up eventually. At the same time, knowing Douglas Adams did love his adventure games - and wrote some of them - has that make that much more sense. It doesn't hold up, with the second storyline avoiding the tropes entirely, but there was something interesting about that observation. It also shows how Dirk's adventures are more interesting to follow, with him being more of a driving force in this world, but even so a lot of it is a lot of figuring out what's going on, rather than being driven by them as much. It's still the second best Douglas Adams series for me, but the speed at which this gets going means I do prefer the sequel.