What's your Favorite book series.
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While I agree that Harry potter was influential I really, really, really hate those books. I have never seen the movies but I read all of them just because I have to know how something ends even if I hate it.At best it is average. I have gone on to read bigger and better books and have realized just how bad the writing is.Wabblefish said:
I'm really hooked into the Gears of War novels by Karen Traviss. Also, the Skulduggery Pleasant books are quite good too.
Big fan of the first 4 or so books of the Vampire Earth, the most last few havnt been great and I'd say the most recent book March in Country wasfor lack of a better word rubbish.
My favourite series at the moment is the Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky although the last two books havnt been as good as the first three it is still an enjoyable series
My favourite series at the moment is the Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky although the last two books havnt been as good as the first three it is still an enjoyable series
Huh, what a coincidence... I'm reading the Night Angel trilogy at the moment... just started the second book.Gizmo1990 said:
OT: Gotta be The Belgariad/Mallorean and it's extras, but David & Leigh Eddings. I nicknamed them "The Belgarath Sagas" for simplicity's sake.
Then again, almost all of David & Leigh Eddings' work is awesome in my eyes. I'm also a big fan of J.V. Jones. Got all of her books and cannot wait till the next book of the Sword of Shadows series is released (hopefully the last in that series too as I'm so eager to read the finale of it)
Discworld. Discworld Discworld Discworld. I dont' care if this has already been mentioned a hundred times, Pratchett's genius cannot possibly be spread enough.
Then again, there's always the Gaunt's Ghost series. It can't quite measure to Discworld, but I'm not about to dismiss the master of grimdark warfare so easily.
Then again, there's always the Gaunt's Ghost series. It can't quite measure to Discworld, but I'm not about to dismiss the master of grimdark warfare so easily.
I got no favorite book series, but I will say my favorite book so my post isn't totally useless. "How I brought down the Soviet union" by Jan Kallberg.
Originality? Who cares! The Discworld kicks ass and has great re-read value!!!Anaklusmos said:
I don't really do favorites and I rarely do series, as I usually find genre fiction to be to constrained by stylistic boundaries. OK, I get it, you're a hard boiled reporter/detective/private eye, but you have this cute little quirk that gets in the way of everything. Or, alternately, an entire series is built around the premise that if a lot of time is spent on the mundane aspects of a crime scene investigation or FBI profiling, they will become as fascinating to the public at large as they are to the people in those occupations.
I do make exceptions for Sci-Fi, though, so I'd recommend Peter F. Hamilton, if you're not intimidated by big, big books. Most of his novels are around 800-1000 pages, but there's no filler. He does everything-and-the-kitchen-sink sci-fi (sorry, syfy), and it is occasionally annoying to see ELVES IN SPACE, but I love what I've read of his anywho. He did a 2-book series with Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained that was absolutely riveting. It's got espionage, space exploration, an alien race that wants to wipe out all of humanity, hippies, porn stars (which are, curiously, the same thing as soap opera actors in this universe), weapons and email/phone built into people's brains, terrorism, a strange religious cult, an A.I. collective that people upload their consciousness into before dying and compelling, well sussed out characters. Last year he published the 3rd book in his Void trilogy, which takes place in the same universe but thousands of years into the future and has two connected stories going on at the same time, one of which can basically be described as The Matrix in the Middle Ages. If you're willing to put some time into Hamilton's works, the payoff is tremendous.
I do make exceptions for Sci-Fi, though, so I'd recommend Peter F. Hamilton, if you're not intimidated by big, big books. Most of his novels are around 800-1000 pages, but there's no filler. He does everything-and-the-kitchen-sink sci-fi (sorry, syfy), and it is occasionally annoying to see ELVES IN SPACE, but I love what I've read of his anywho. He did a 2-book series with Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained that was absolutely riveting. It's got espionage, space exploration, an alien race that wants to wipe out all of humanity, hippies, porn stars (which are, curiously, the same thing as soap opera actors in this universe), weapons and email/phone built into people's brains, terrorism, a strange religious cult, an A.I. collective that people upload their consciousness into before dying and compelling, well sussed out characters. Last year he published the 3rd book in his Void trilogy, which takes place in the same universe but thousands of years into the future and has two connected stories going on at the same time, one of which can basically be described as The Matrix in the Middle Ages. If you're willing to put some time into Hamilton's works, the payoff is tremendous.
Although I have been lucky enough to not have to read the books (the younger brother of a friend of mine has been forced to read them in English class)I have been forced to site through the unbelievably boring and crappy movies by some friends of mine.rayen020 said:
The things guys will do for girls
The Republic Commando novels she wrote are also completely epic. Too bad those idiots doing the clone wars cartoon's pissed her off so we may never know how it all endsMercurySteam said:
