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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[-] yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

I usually try push through to the end with most books, but I couldn't do it for this one.

Even after it won the Hugo I was never tempted to go back to it. Found it to be so formulaic. I read just past halfway and it felt like a novelisation of a daytime movie.

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

Agreed. Sometimes I can't understand why some books win hugo and other awards, besides politics of some sort. I mean some have been good, but not that much.

[-] pablonaj@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Same here, the first chapter is really good, then it becomes this slow story where nothing interesting seems to happen.

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