Favorite book series?

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**lilgammer123**

I have just finished The Last Apprentice/ Wardstone Chronicles book saga (the best) and I was wondering what your favorite book series is? PS: This is not a poll since their are a lot of series.

**feeder**

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series.
Game of Thrones
LotR
The Adventures of Tintin

**daedalus**

The Riverworld Series by Phillip Jose Farmer.

Everyone on Earth wakes up on a giant planet consisting of a river in a mountainous valley with a large river in the middle of it. They quickly find they're immortal, and are resurrected the next day if they die. Hijinks ensue.

**Jimsolo**

The Damned trilogy by Alan Dean Foster
Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series.

**Platuan4th**

The Ring Trilogy by Koji Suzuki

**Jihadin**

Original BattleTech Novels

Also Iron Druid

Paratwa Saga

**jreilly89**

The Darktower series all the way. Really great story and very gripping.

Also, have not finished it, but the Dragonlance trilogy looks promising.

**Musashi363**

Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia
Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia
Dune (the prequels and Dune) by Frank Herbert
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Horus Heresy books

**Platuan4th**

Musashi363 wrote:
Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia
Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia

Read his Warmachine/Iron Kingdoms stuff yet?

**Commissar-Danno**

Taylor Andersons Destroyermen Series is my favorite series

**Avatar 720**

The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind.
Anything from Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
David Eddings' Malloreon and Belgariad series.
Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn and Stormlight Archive series.
The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini (More for personal reasons than because they're good)
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series.

Actually, just any series I've read and enjoyed really. If I didn't enjoy a series, then I wouldn't have read it all.

**jreilly89**

Also, the Dresden Files, although I've yet to complete that series too. And the Harry Potter series was fine up until the Order of the Phoenix. I found it too boring to continue

**Ensis Ferrae**

Deadpool Classics
"Complete Deadpool" By Daniel Way
A Song of Ice and Fire, by GRRM
The "Hannibal Lector series" by Thomas Harris (seriously, the movies are pretty good/great, but the books are much better)

Once upon a time I did like the Wheel of Time series, but after I quit reading (I stopped after book 8, because I had to wait 2 months for book 8 to be released, then forgot about the series after reading that one until a couple years ago, and attempting to reread all those books is skull numbing drudgery... even worse than reading/decyphering the lineage of Norwegian kings from the time of Othin

)

**Musashi363**

I have read Larry's Warmachine fluff and it's amazing. He also co - wrote a book with author Mike Kupari called Dead Six, which was freaking awesome.

**whembly**

Bar none...

-Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
-Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind

**greenskin lynn**

sandman slim series by richard kadrey
chronicles of matthew swift by kate griffin
Alex Verus books by Benedict Jacka
Rivers of London books by Ben Aaronovitch
the previous mentioned iron druid series
the laundry files by charles stross
plus a ton of others i may list later if the mood takes me
(i spend several years working night shift and basically got to spend each night reading and doing a small amount of paperwork)

**Avatar 720**

whembly wrote:
Bar none...

-Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
-Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind

I have to admit, although I love the series as a whole there are huge parts of it that are boring as all hell, repetitive, ridiculous, and various combinations of the three. Personally, it was all downhill until Faith of the Fallen (Soul of the Fire was and continues to be a painful reading experience), which vaulted it back up only for it to plummet at the Pillars of Creation, back up a bit during Naked Empire, and then a smooth ride back downhill again from Chainfire.

That's not mentioning all the rape. I swear the guy has a bit of an unhealthy obsession with it. There are so many near acts, implied acts, and actual acts of it that you could probably compile all of them into a book of all the rapes that happened during the series and have it come out longer (and unfortunately in some cases, better written) than a lot of novels you see around today.

**whembly**

Avatar 720 wrote:
whembly wrote:
Bar none...

-Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
-Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind

I have to admit, although I love the series as a whole there are huge parts of it that are boring as all hell, repetitive, ridiculous, and various combinations of the three. Personally, it was all downhill until Faith of the Fallen (Soul of the Fire was and continues to be a painful reading experience), which vaulted it back up only for it to plummet at the Pillars of Creation, back up a bit during Naked Empire, and then a smooth ride back downhill again from Chainfire.

That's not mentioning all the rape. I swear the guy has a bit of an unhealthy obsession with it. There are so many near acts, implied acts, and actual acts of it that you could probably compile all of them into a book of all the rapes that happened during the series and have it come out longer (and unfortunately in some cases, better written) than a lot of novels you see around today.

The last book actually turns out okay.

It's a very, very dark series. A certain gritty style too.

I really like the fact that while some of the magic scenes in the book are awesome, most of the time, it wasn't the reason why they succeed.

I'd still say the first book is great on its own.

**Avatar 720**

For me the last book was a complete anti-climax, and felt like a "this series has gone on a bit too long and I can't think of another way out of it" ending in its execution. Later readings (I've read the series + the first two R&K books after it 3 times) of some books and some specific parts just forced me to skip over entire chapters (or in the case of the Pillars of Creation, pretty much the entire book) because they were just... crap.

**whembly**

Pillars of Creation was the worst of the series.

I'd advocate just skipping it altogether.

*shrugs*

He's a writer... needs to keep the gravey train going.

It's rare to see an author end a series and start up a new one successfully.

Not everyone can be Stephen King.

I'll throw in another good series:
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.

You'll either love it, or hate it.

Too bad Jordan passed away, his last book was supposed to "end" the whole series and he was allegedly working on a brand new series.

**carlos13th**

The farseer/assasins books by robin hobb are among. My favourite fantasy books.

**Aesop the God Awful**

I'm not that big on series, but off the top of my head:
Discworld, naturally
The Culture, by Iain M Banks
Doppler, by Erlend Loe
The Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy, by K.W. Jeter

Pending:
The Farseer trilogy, by Robin Hobb

whembly wrote:
I'll throw in another good series:
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.

You'll either love it, or hate it.

I started reading this a few years ago and I hated it, but I might give it a second chance sometime.

**adzila**

Discworld was the series of books that ignited my love of reading when i was but a youngster.

The Flashman Series by George Mcdonald Fraser is, i think, my favourite series as an adult.

**Bromsy**

The Black Company.

Because it can't be my favorite series if it isn't done, which precludes the only reasonable competition which would be Dresden Files.

Also a huge fan of the First Law Trilogy and the follow up novels, as well as the Oath of Empire series, the various Posleen war books, The Last Rune series (even though it kind of ended on a low note), Hammer's Slammers, the Thiefworld Books, Wildcards, The Sprawl Trilogy, The Northworld Trilogy, The Myth Adventures and Garret P.I. series, the Ring of Fire series (although I have fallen behind in recent years) COBRA series by Timothy Zahn (the first actual novels I ever read way back in second/third grade, so maybe a bit of nostalgia in there), the Bolo Series, the Nightside Series, Destroyermen, the Monarchies of God, the Culture novels, The Second Apocalypse series, The Deepgate Codex... and probably others I can't think of.

- remembered Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere - counting all those as a series, Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series - for sheer scope if nothing else, and the Riftwar Saga.

**Peregrine**

The Culture novels by Iain M Banks, no question.

**Paradigm**

Too many to pick one, but here goes with the top 5:

Inheritance by Paolini
The Icemark Trilogy by Stuart Hill
The Mortal Engies Quartet (and prequels) by Phillip Reeve
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness

I could add in a dozen others that I really, really like, but these are the best of them.

**focusedfire**

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

The Black Blade series by Micheal Morcock

The Iron Tower Trilogy/series by Dennis Mckeirnan(A complete rip-off of the Lord of the Rings but with a much darker ending)

The Black Company by Glenn Cook

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson (Inspirational and sad, Donaldson shows a Stephen King-esque style of detailed story development. Some might say he is a bit long winded.)

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum

The Dragonlance: Legends Trilogy by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman

Also, Tolkiens The lord of the Rings and David Eddings The Belgariad are right there withe the Chronicles of Narnia for my childhood favorites. I learned to read by my mom reading the LotR to me when I was 3.

Later,
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Edit to correct incorrect author. Thanks Paradigm

**Paradigm**

focusedfire wrote:

The Chronicles of Narnia by T.S. Elliot

I'm sure you already know, but Narnia was CS Lewis!
But yes, Narnia are great books, everyone should read them at least once!

**focusedfire**

Paradigm wrote:
focusedfire wrote:

The Chronicles of Narnia by T.S. Elliot

I'm sure you already know, but Narnia was CS Lewis!
But yes, Narnia are great books, everyone should read them at least once!

Good Heavens, Thank you for catching that. I transposed the name because of conversation with the spouse. Will correct it now

**PhantomViper**

I'm just finishing book two in the Kingkiller Chronicles (Wise Man's Fear) and I really recommend it. It has single handedly revitalized my interest in fantasy settings.