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Highly rated book you DNF (lemmy.world)

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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[–] NotThatKindofDoctor@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've thought about reading Dune but it seems really daunting. I'm not like averse to big books (usually I'm the opposite) but it just seems like it's dense. And if something is too complicated I have trouble getting sucked into the book. Then I get frustrated...then I give up hahaha!

[–] passepartout@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] JoeClu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I gave up because I had to keep looking up every apparatus with a foreign name to see what the hell they were talking about. It just got to be too much and was no longer enjoyable for me.

Loved the recent movie though! I mean like a lot!!