2.Qe2. Nothing to memorize and is a shocker otb. But if you're not into any positional stuff then don't bother.

2.Qe2 has always seemed pretty junkie to me. After 2...c5 white just gets a closed sicilian where the queen has been prematurely developed to a less than optimal square. White can't get much of anything in the closed sicilan at the best of times, so I don't know how this could be desirable.

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White can play a King's Indian attack with 3.g3 instead of a going into a Sicillian.

learning openings is about understanding, not memorizing "10+ moves"

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Sure, but the king's indian attack and closed sicilian are the same thing.

Call it what you like, white has wasted a tempo with Qe2.

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Sure, but if you can understand AND memorize...isn't that ideal?

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http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1269062

Black didn't play in closed sicilian style. He could have done a kingside fianchetto and ...e6 and ...Nge7 when e5 would be hard.

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how do you always know that book moves are correct?

 happy memorizing