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* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'': This book heavily influenced geek humor during the 1980s but now the humor seems too cerebral to today's audience. Also, Douglas Adams' humor doesn't translate well from the written page to the spoken-out-loud format due to his verbosity and the lower attention span of the modern audience. That would explain the 2005 movie which either didn't include most of the iconic lines from the book, altered them to sound more American, or substituted visual humor.

** Notwithstanding that the book was originally an adaptation from the Radio series.

* The ''[[Shannara]]'' franchise, particularly ''[[The Sword of Shannara]]''. People today tend to look at it and see a blatant rip-off of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. At the time, people wouldn't have, due to Brooks' other innovations, including Elves that were human and fallible, a [[Mentor]] who was a whopping example of [[Good Is Not Nice]], the aversion of [[Exclusively Evil]], and of course, the twist ending ({{spoiler|The Sword convinces [[The Big Bad]] of his [[Dead All Along]] status}}), and the [[After the End]] setting. Nowadays all those things are so common that modern readers tend only to notice the flaws and the similarities to ''Lord of the Rings'', instead of the differences.

** Tolkien's Elves were fallible, plenty of his characters (including mentor types like Gandalf and especially Thorin) exhibit [[Good Is Not Nice]], he subverted and deconstructed [[Exclusively Evil]], and LOTR has two twist endings. There might be bits buried in the Shannara books not ripped off from Tolkien, but those aren't among them. The [[After the End]] setting cropped up years later due to [[Canon Welding]] rather than any particular piece of creative insight.

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