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Originally Posted by latepaul
Maybe you have to read it at the right age? I think it's a good fit for a geek teenage boy but not sure what I'd've made of it these days.
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A poster above mentioned that some of continued joy in stuff like HHGTTG may not so much that we still enjoy the material itself, but that it takes us back to when we liked it originally.
There may be a lot to that, I think.
Sort of how the MEMORY of our favorite childhood desert is always better than actually having the same desert as an adult.
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I read several Stainless Steel Rat books. I enjoyed them as light, mildly surreal, SciFi adventure romps. I was slightly shocked to find out later that they were supposed to be funny!
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They were?!? Hmm. That might explain a lot. I HATED the first Rat book.
If it was supposed to be funny, then I feel like the uncle in the James Gregory bit who saw Miss Piggy on the Muppet Show and said "Hmph. I bet that ain't a real pig."