Douglas Adams, an English writer, may in fact be one of the most spontaneously humorous writers of all time; he shows this in many unique ways, although many may overlook this and think of his works as elementary. In many ways, one could argue that aspects of his writing are juvenile, but you have to look past this aspect that he brings out and realize that there is much greater thought and meaning behind it if you delve deeper. In the truly swashbuckling novels The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (the latter being a sequel to the former), Adams incorporates the following: a pleasant, sarcastic style, an ironic theme within this style, and a set of extraordinarily diverse characters that only he could have played. One aspect of Adams' style is that he is exceptional at creating dry humor out of anything. What is dry humor? Ask.com hypothesizes that “dry humor is humor told in a “dry” manner, without emotion or seriously. It's telling a joke in a practical way. (Ask.com 1). When you read a passage in which Adams uses this type of humor, you can only think that if Adams were speaking right in front of you, he would look stone-faced while telling you about an incredibly bizarre phenomenon. In chapter 17 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Adams explains that "The next thing that happened was a shocking explosion of noise and light" (88). The next thing that happened was that, in effect, every physical object around the characters completely transformed into something irrelevantly different (including two missiles headed in their direction that transformed into a whale and a flowerpot). Many authors would have stated this very colorfully and may... middle of paper... be just an insignificant blue and green speck of a planet in a vast universe of nothingness. Ultimately, it creates a group of characters that are unmatched in terms of individuality, and the interactions they share are truly entertaining. All in all, Douglas Adams is a much overlooked author who should never be called elementary because of his style, theme and characterization and because his works are the essence of English comic writing. Works Cited Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. New York: Harmony, 1980. Print.Adams, Douglas. The restaurant at the end of the universe. New York: Harmony, 1981. Print. "Biography of Douglas Adams". Wikipedia.org. February 12, 2012. Web. February 16, 2012. Garland, Robert. "The Writing Style of Douglas Adams." Galactic-guide.com. June 13, 1996. Web. March 4, 2012. "Dry Humor." Ask.com. Network. March 4. 2012.