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Highly rated book you DNF (lemmy.world)

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Between Two Fires by Chris Buelhman

I had heard good things about the book, and while it is fantastic, its very dense and plodding and very depressing. There are chapters that leave me in awe but then there are 4 chapters of slow depression that bring the story to a grinding halt.

I only have a third of the book left so I might finish it later but man it's rough to read sometimes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read that book after reading The Blacktongue Thief, really enjoyed them both, but Between Two Fires was a dark tale of misery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I got up to act/part 3, but decided to take a break and now it's been a couple months. I started reading some other stuff so I just haven't had the time to go back. Really well written, just also really slow to pick up steam lol