The Diary, I mean Education, of Henry Adams

Aside from the fact that The Education of Henry Adams is not much of a lazy day at the beach read, I am getting something out of reading the novel. I struggle with his vocabulary some but am familiar with many of his historical (mostly the American ones, not so much British) references. The trends that I find throughout reading it sometimes frustrate me and other times excite me.
The first trend that I've noticed is that Henry constantly says something to the affect of "And this is the end of my education." and goes on to talk further about his education while later calling the end something else. A classic example of this (though there are MANY) is on page 79, "...and there, in fact, the young man's education began; there it ended." I kept saying things in my mind like "You sure Henry?", "Done this time?", or "Again?". I just got so annoyed with it. Despite that fact that he used the word education in about a hundred different ways and contexts and then talks about its beginning and end constantly just suggest chaos.
Getting past all that annoyance, I am enjoying the novel so far because I find that it reads very much like a diary. I've kept a diary for many years (since I was 11) and have finished up 12 of them working on the 13th. I know that when I write, I write for a selfish purpose and not much else and I write it all down quickly and unorganized, usually ranting, and don't ever worry about technical things. I try to sound as intelligent as I can without fearing repetition and I feel that Adams does this as well. He will go on and on telling the same story a hundred times. A great example of that is how he drug on that story of diplomacy regarding Russell, Gladstone, Palmerston, etc. and whether or not he believed them. I thought he explained the same story and situation from many different view points and as a diary, that is more than acceptable for me. He also comes off to be incredibly biased and yet at the same time trying really hard not to be. I have the tendency to the same thing when I write. I write it thinking I sound so open-minded but if I read it later I just sounded like a jerk. Adams' writing style came off to me in this way quite often.
I also love the way he is so quote-worthy. Whoever wrote the summary on the back of the book noticed the same thing so I don't attribute any amount of clever thought to all of the quotes I keep pulling from his text BUT you all should write some down. That Henry Adams is one sensitive guy, really.