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D0GAMA1 t1_jdzmght wrote

The worst thing is, after you've done with the story, you start to look for similar books only to realize that the series that you finished is one of a kind and there are no similar stories or if there are they are not as good.

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Kingkongcrapper t1_je097bf wrote

Never found another Hitchhikers Guide.

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Ringosis t1_je0qh4z wrote

Terry Pratchett? If you don't need it to be sci-fi he has a really similar style and sense of humour. He frequently writes with that exact same dramatic irony back and forth between the narrator and the characters that is so good in Hitchhikers.

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sleepingnow t1_je1e5a5 wrote

I love Pratchett so much. I have never found anything to replace his writing.

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Ringosis t1_je1gbkv wrote

Douglas Adams? If you don't need it to be fantasy he has a really similar style and sense of humour. He frequently writes with that exact same dramatic irony back and forth between the narrator and the characters that is so good in Discworld.

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sleepingnow t1_je1o7rt wrote

I have read his works, but it has been decades. Time for a re-read.

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Ringosis t1_je36m9w wrote

As a less flippant suggestion for you and u/Kingkongcrapper...if you are on board with sci-fi and like that sense of humour, I could not recommend The Culture series by Iain Banks more.

It's much less explicitly comedy than Pratchett or Adams. It tends to lean more towards hard science fiction...but the series has a really similar sense of humour. The crux of the setting is a society that has become so advanced that AI run everything. Humans simply think too slowly to have meaningful input.

A lot of the plot across the series is told from the point of view of sentient AI space ships that see humans effectively as children they are morally obligated to look after. The interaction between the god like AI and the comparatively stupid organic life leads to a really similar style of humour to the narrator/character dynamic of Prachett and Adams. But rather than being a comedy space opera like Hitchhiker's Guide, it's more like a space opera that's comedic.

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anachronic t1_je2i407 wrote

Have you read the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson?

It's different, but I remember it feeling like it was in the same oddball satirical ballpark.

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armor3r t1_je3oju2 wrote

The first law trilogy for me, nothing seems to reach it.

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CptPope t1_je3p8ro wrote

Funny, the very first book that ever truly got it’s hooks into me when I was in 5th grade was The Hobbit. I voraciously read through the 300ish pages and when I finished I had this very same hangover and thought, I sure hope there is another book like this somewhere.

Imagine my delight in discovering that Hobbit was merely the prequel to LotR. That said, I recall being disappointed that Frodo replaced Bilbo as the protagonist for the series.

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Relative-Gas-9995 t1_je99gws wrote

I knoooow! I was bored one time and i found a book called Entwined, and i was literally smitten with it. But when i finished, i started looking for other books like it and there really were none. I think THAT made me depressed a bit, but also happy. It's weird. But i felt that way after Harry Potter, Eragon etc., etc.. 😁

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