Douglas Adams

I'm a fast reader, so today I read the final Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt during my little computer breaks that I take once I feel like the screen is starting to make me nauseous.

It's a good book. I really quite liked it, even though it's not really a novel or anything. More just a collection of all the things he had left on his computer when he passed away. I still found it a great read. I'll admit, I never read the original hitchhiker guide series. It was reading that I couldn't follow. It was either too funny, or two witty or just too off-the-wall for my brain to grasp efficiently so I would always find myself re-reading for the hundredth time the same sentence and getting nowhere as my eyes would be skipping like a record every time they hit something that my brain found totally incongruent.

Anyway, reading fast is like stuffing your head full of someone else all at once. I'd almost describe it like getting drunk. When I swallow a book I find I take on the linguistic characteristics of whatever I was reading, and just like getting drunk- it's can be both a really cool sensation to lose control, but can also be quite uncomfortable.