Ways to win at reading books everyone else has already read:
Step 1. Have an abysmal mental visual capacity, challenged perhaps only by your own declining eyesight.
Step 2. Watch The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, starring Martin Freeman.
Step 3. Forget absolutely everything about it, sans the fact that it starred Martin Freeman, in the 5~7 years since seeing it.
Step 4. Read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Resulting mental associations:
1. Arthur Dent : Martin Freeman
2. Ford Prefect : "'Ginger'? But I only know of one ginger with which to visualise."
Proceed to envision Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch as the aforementioned characters while reading.
Step 2. Watch The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, starring Martin Freeman.
Step 3. Forget absolutely everything about it, sans the fact that it starred Martin Freeman, in the 5~7 years since seeing it.
Step 4. Read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Resulting mental associations:
1. Arthur Dent : Martin Freeman
2. Ford Prefect : "'Ginger'? But I only know of one ginger with which to visualise."
Proceed to envision Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch as the aforementioned characters while reading.