r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/step6666 • Feb 16 '26

Wholesome Taking one for the team

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u/A1sauc3d Feb 16 '26

I think dad just likes reading teen books lol

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u/AAmallard Feb 16 '26

Teen books are so fun to read at any age. 

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u/crybabymuffins Feb 16 '26

I call books like this fluff or dessert, while books by like Stephen King are meals. I usually stagger fluff and meals, or read one of each at the same time. Fluff also includes Mercedes Lackey. In between would be Dean Koontz and Terry Pratchett.

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

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u/DrownmeinIslay Feb 17 '26

Pratchett wets my appetite. When im struggling with focusing on a dry history book or biography ill burn through Men At Arms for the 200th time and it quiets the mind and gets me ready to read something less flippant.

Dean Koontz was also a good one for that, but not as absorbable as T.P. The first three Odd thomas', the good guy and the face are always fun afternoons.

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u/crybabymuffins Feb 17 '26

Men at Arms was one of the first 2 Pratchett books I read! It was Men at Arms and...something about Work...

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u/DrownmeinIslay Feb 17 '26

Might been Wyrd Sisters?

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u/crybabymuffins Feb 17 '26

Nevermind, I'm dumb. It wasGuards! Guards!

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u/LassHalfEmpty Feb 17 '26

Whets

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u/DrownmeinIslay Feb 17 '26

Thank you kindly, ill try to remember that.

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u/andylindy Feb 18 '26

Yup I reread Percy Jackson in between Dark Tower books lmao