Your favourite novel series

[Eternalknight]

If you could pick one series of novels, or single, stand-alone novel, as your all-time favourite, what would it be? For me, I have a toss up between two... one is the one I've recently read and one is the series I read that got me interested in D&D... but to choose one, it would have to be the Riftwar Saga by Raymond E Feist. Mainly because it's the first series in ages I haven't been able to put down!

 

[reutbing0]

If narrowed down to fantasy (and forgetting Tolkien for a moment) I would say Riftwar saga as well. Even though it may not be the most original fantasy-series, it is at all times entertaining, vibrant and exciting. Midkemia is actually the campaign world Feist played in. I'm stilll hoping for a nice RPG-translation of this setting. It would rock !

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Oh man this is a tough one as their are so many novel series that I love. Let's see first I will start by narrowing it down to a few:

• The Thrawn Trilogy
• Anita Blake Series
• Dragonlance Chronicles
• Dragonlance Legends
• Worldwar/Colinization by Harry Turtledove
• The Great War/American Empire by Harry Turtledove
• X-Men: Mutant Empire by Christopher Golden

Ok so thats not really narrowing it down much. Hmmm. Ok. Now I will narrow it down to three or four.

• The Thrawn Trilogy
• Anita Blake Series
• Dragonlance Chronicles
• X-Men: Mutant Empire

Ok. Now I will break it down to just one. I'm going to have to go with the Anita Blake series despite my not having liked the last couple of books. I can still sit down and read the first 5-6 books almost anytime.

 

[jonesy]

It's too hard trying to come up with a clear favourite series:
-Asimovs robot books.
-Adams' Hitchhiker series.
-Sprawl series by Gibson.
-The Dragonlance Saga.
Much much easier when you have to choose just one book:
-The Hobbit

 

[Tsyr]

The Velgarth series.

 

[Mark]

LotR is it for me. If I had to pick a second, that'd be tough, too. The Thieves World series is mighty fine but I am a big Asimov fan, also.

 

[Assenpfeffer]

I'd be hard-pressed to limit myself to just one series. Series worth considering:

LotR (Tolkien) - Obviously.
Riftwar (Feist) - Still am not motivated enough to finish books 3 and 4 of the plodding Serpentwar series.
Mars (Burroughs) - An old-time favorite.
Mars (Robinson) - A mucvh newer favorite. I devoured these.
Belgariad (Eddings) - The Great Bubblegum Fantasy Series. Lots of fun. Emphatically not including any of his other series.
Earthsea (LeGuin) - Great series, astoundingly well-written.
Hyperion (Simmons) - Great sequence, especially the first two. I've gotta re-read these soon.
LeGuin is probably, I think, the greatest living writer of F/SF.
Elric (Moorcock) - Not incluyding the much more recent additions to the series.
Foundation (Asimov) - Original trilogy only.
Conan (Robert E. Howard only) - I am a Conan Nazi.
Gor (Norman) - Ha! Just kidding. Still, better-written than Dragonlance.

If I had to pick one series, it'd probably be Conan. Or maybe LotR if I could include the Hobbit, Unfinished Tales and all the other ancilliary material - you could spend a lifetime going through that.

Now, if I had to pick one book, and one book period, it'd be Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light, my all-time favorite F/SF novel (yes, even more so than LotR or Dune.)

 

[Eternalknight]

Interesting to see a few people site Dragonlance. That was my second choice, as noted above.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Discworld.

 

[Ghostwind]

I don't really have a favorite series, but I do have that stick out in my mind as extremely good or interesting:

*Incarnations of Immortality (Piers Anthony)
*The Dragonriders of Pern (Anne Macaffery)
*Any of R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books.
*First Flight trilogy (Chris Claremont)
*Silverglass trilogy (J.R. Rivkin (sp?))
*Raven series (Richard Kirk)
*James Bond 007 (Ian Fleming, John Gardener, Raymond Bensen)
*Dragonlance: Elven Nation Trilogy