Here is my embarrassing list.
=Noteworthy
1984 by George Orwell Catch-22 Joseph Heller Dune by Frank Herbert East of Eden by John Steinbeck Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
=Less Noteworthy
Black Sea Gods by Brian Braden Mythos by Stephen Fry Smallworld by Dominic Green The One by John Marrs The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The colour of magic isn’t highly rated by anyone. Most discworld fans will tell you to skip the first two books and don’t really count them. I hope you didn’t skip discworld based on that. If your willing to give it another go, most fans suggest starting with Guards Guards! as the feel of discworld is well established by this point and the Watch sub series is a fan favourite.
There are 5 main sub series; the Witches, Death, the Watch, Industrial Revolution and Rincewind. Rincewind is the least rated. You can read them in pretty much any order but each sub series is recommended to read in the reading order:
I found the humor in the first several chapters of the first book to be juvenile. The kind of humor you can see coming from a kilometer away so it’s just too obvious and not really funny.
Every discworld fan will agree. The first two are terrible. They are straight parodies of the fantasy genre in the 70–80s. The rest of the series are more adult satire of real world issues and institutions and the stories have actual characterisation and pathos.
Huh, maybe I should give the others a go then. I read the first two last year and thought they were awful
Well, I don’t feel so bad now that I’ve never finished Dune. My mom raved about that book, and I tried… I really did.
I’ve read half, I’ll read the rest in time for part 2.
Grrr… I guess I need to work on formatting. Let’s try this again
1984 by George Orwell
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Dune by Frank Herbert
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
LESS NOTABLE:
Black Sea Gods by Brian Braden
Mythos by Stephen Fry
Smallworld by Dominic Green
The One by John Marrs
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
I couldn’t finish Dune either. I’m sure the story is great, but the writing IMO is terrible.
Grrr… I guess I need to work on formatting. Let’s try this again
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Catch-22 Joseph Heller
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
LESS NOTABLE:
- Black Sea Gods by Brian Braden
- Mythos by Stephen Fry
- Smallworld by Dominic Green
- The One by John Marrs
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
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1. Ordered listDanke schoen.
I was also bested by Dune. I never finished “To Kill a Mockingbird” in high school, and have never had any desire to pick it back up. The most embarrassing/shameful is… “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” I love the movies, and I love learning about the lore on YouTube, but I just cannot make it through that book. “The Hobbit” was such a fun and silly little story, and I loved it! Fellowship just reads like those chapters in Genesis that you tend to skip over.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
I heard so many good things about it but I could not make myself read it.
Awe. Sorry it wasn’t for you. I enjoyed it. Very touching for me. I just checked out the follow on book from my local library. I heard it’s pretty emotional too.
What’s the most emotional book you’ve read?
Infinite Jest
Dune
I’ve started infinite jest several times, the last time I thought I’d try on my kindle to make the constant footnotes a bit easier to get back and forth from. Still only got 100 or so pages in. One day I’ll get there.
@Confuzzeled @nandeEbisu highly recommended. So funny
Infinite Jest as well. I just don’t get it 🤷♂️ I don’t get the hype, or the humor, or the plot—I feel I’m missing something in order to ‘get’ this book.
Need more byzantine erotica
Interesting. I to almost abandoned Ove. The guy was too much of an asshole. Just over the top. But for some reason I stuck with it and finished the book.
I mean I’m a grumpy, foul mood person most of the time, but I’m not an ass about it. I’m still nice and kind to people.
Haven’t read any others by the same author.
I searched the annals of the books subreddit way back when and could quite literally only find one other user besides me who couldn’t stand A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. I tried two separate times to read that book and just couldn’t do it. I understand the premise of crusty old guy is soft and mushy on the inside, but ffs he is SUCH a massive prick in the beginning I just could never get past it. I also read Anxious People by him and couldn’t stand it, so I think maybe this author just isn’t for me.
Super noteworthy wise I quit A Tale of Two Cities on like page 4 lol, but that was more because I didn’t understand that style of English than anything else.
Interesting. I to almost abandoned Ove. The guy was too much of an asshole. Just over the top. But for some reason I stuck with it and finished the book.
I mean I’m a grumpy, foul mood person most of the time, but I’m not an ass about it. I’m still nice and kind to people.
Haven’t read any others by the same author.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has never finished Good Omens. I’ve picked it up several times. What I’ve read of it, I enjoyed. But I never felt compelled to finish it. Put differently, I guess it’s just not engaging…?
I’m pretty stubborn when it comes to finishing books generally, unless they’re just generic trashy NYT bestseller stuff.
One on my list bugging me though: Three Body Problem. I got it on audiobook, but its too dense for that format. I need a physical copy.
I just finished the three body problem on audiobook a few days ago, it definitely would’ve been better to read a hard copy of it but I still found it to be absolutely amazing. As a huge space nerd, certain parts of that book created amazing visuals in my head that fascinate me, I’ve gone back and reread certain scenes multiple times just because they amaze me to think about.
Almost done the 2nd book and it’s a lot more boring than the first but the end picks up quite a bit at least and I hear the 3rd book is great.
Piranesi: I could not get into the book, got to around 80-90 pages in. Just was not for me probably, might retry another time though.
Quiet the power of introverts: the beginning was informative and relatable but after that it become to much historical which wasn’t for me.
Just out of curiosity what was it about Piranesi you didn’t like? I’ve heard it recommended on the books subreddit so many times so I’m curious.
Uncertain to be honest, it’s been a while. But I remember, I just couldn’t get into the story.
Perhaps I was not in the right mood or it just wasn’t the kind of book for me. Could be the genre as well. Honestly can’t remember.
Might retry it a long while later.
For example, I prefer to read quite the emotional books such as:
- The Words We Keep
- The Midnight Library
- Before The Coffee Gets Cold (currently reading)
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It’s not that complicated at all. It has a decent pacing and the description of the world is beautiful. The one thing that bugged me is the way they handled inner monologue, it was a little too much for me at times.
Orwell was a snitch anyway.
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