submitted 1 year ago by JoeClu@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

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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

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[-] JoeClu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] billstickers@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] happyOutsider@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Huh, maybe I should give the others a go then. I read the first two last year and thought they were awful

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