Reading for Enrichment

This week, I’m reading the second in the Hitchhiker’s trilogy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I’m just going to take a brief moment to say that reading this book is making me dumber. Granted, I have been called a book snob, and a movie snob, and probably other kinds of snobs, but I don’t think it’s too much to ask for a little intelligence in my media. (ie Gwen Stefani’s “Holla Back Girl” should be sent to solitary confinement.)
I just finished G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare. Although this book was also a fantasy/adventure novel with less than 150 easy pages. However, I got the impression from the writing that Chesterton had read a book before. In comparison, Douglas Adams’ books are mind-numbing and surprisingly repetitive. (I don’t think I can stand to read the phrase “large, friendly letters on the cover” one more time.) Maybe I’m old-school, but I don’t think that one writing a novel should ever use copy and paste. Additionally, I may be overreacting just a bit to Adams’ attempts to use mathematics and logic within the context of his [science] fiction.
Anyhow, since I don’t like quitting, (and this book is hardly a challenge) I’m going to try to finish this book as quickly as possible so I can move on to something with a little more substance. This is in no way a indictment of the movie. The screen adaptation of the book/series deviates considerable from the original novel and either because of or in spite of this turns out to be mostly enjoyable. It probably helps if you’re a fan of British comedy and/or science fiction, though. Still, I could have done without the theme song: probably worse than Stefani’s song.