Books

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:

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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.

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.

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.

Red Rising. Felt like a ham-fisted, beat-you-in-with-the-class-warfare-moral imitation of Hunger Games, complete with a manic pixie dream girl. I still don’t understand how it’s so highly rated.

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

Infinite Jest

Dune

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 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.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

I heard so many good things about it but I could not make myself read it.

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.

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.

Orwell was a snitch anyway.