Your favourite novel series

[Assenpfeffer]

What, you like it better when I talk about the use of pointed ears or halfling thingies?

Eric's grandma doesn't like to hear about those things. Only I stand in opposition to blatant puns.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Stuff I have been reading currently that I like...

Gotrek & Felix by William King - WFRP novels

Oh, Alan Dean Fosters - Flinx and Pip novels

And Christopher Rowley's Dragonboy and Bazil Brokentail books

 

[JoeBlank]

I am surprised no one has mentioned George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. I just finished the third book, and am patiently awaiting the 4th. Fantastic, up there with LOTR, and perhaps ahead of it.

 

[Assenpfeffer]

I am surprised no one has mentioned George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. I just finished the third book, and am patiently awaiting the 4th. Fantastic, up there with LOTR, and perhaps ahead of it.

It's very good, but I, for one, didn't list it for two reasons: 1) It's not finished, and after the Jordan fiasco I'm not convinced the series won't either tank or be padded out ad infinitum. And 2) I think we need at least a few years after the series is done to get some perspective on it before comparing it with earlier works.

If you were on a desert island, would you really want a series that's unfinished?

 

[Eridanis]

Julian May's Plieocene Exile series (The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Non-born King, The Adversary). It still rocks my world, even nearly 20 years sicne I first read them.

 

[Jamdin]

The top six series that I enjoy are:

1) Elric
2) Stainless Steel Rat
3) Doc Savage
4) Cthulhu Mythos
5) The Shadow
6) Dark Shadows

 

[Anavel Gato]

If you are talking a series (despite all the editing errors) and a series with good entertainment value:

Clan War

The clan books of L5R by WotC. I think i was six books
Scorpion
Unicorn
Crane
Crab
Lion
Dragon

Also i read these more recently than any other book series, (like Dragonlance) so it is fresh in my mind.

 

[Umbran]

Hm.

Sticking to Fantasy, since for me, adding Sci-fi makes the question nigh unmanageable...

I still have problems choosing.

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, series by Tad Williams
Mordant's Need, duology by Stephen Donaldson
The Deryni books, actually multiple series, by Katherine Kurtz.

 

[Wayside]

For F/SF, it's Dune, hands down. I love the elements of Greek tragedy.

In general though, Kundera's books (they are a sort of series, thematically), and Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

 

[Eosin the Red]

Hard Questions?


Song of Fire and Ice
Asimov - Foundation & Robots
The Thrawn Trilogy

Gritty Crime nonimations for the Burke series by Vachess.


I just finished the Deeds of Paksenarrion and I must say that it is the single best gaming inspired series I have ever read. That is what a paladin should be.

I know that I am forgetting some really, really good stuff.

Somethings just go without saying:
Herbert, Hienlien, & Tolkien all have a special place for me.