Best Series Ever?

[Tank]

Whats ur best book series ever?

I got the vampire chronical by anne rice (movies sucked ass)

sword of truth series by terry goodkind

[s3raph]

Dude Interview with the Vampire was incredible. Queen of the damned was garbage though.

[Tank]

Have you read the books? Compared to the books it was crap..

every time Tom Cruise smiled it reminded me of a weasel...

[Aardvark]

Discworld

[Thyraeus]

Chopper 1 through 15..... a literary master

[ashet]

Wheel of time

[s3raph]

Dark Materials, Dune, and Cairo Jim :p

[mr_russy]

Harry Potter, Lord Of The Rings


someone had to say them

[spurr]

Hhgttg

[CharmedOne]

The entire Dr Seuss collection.. oh that and all the Noddy books, the ones my dad got given when he was a child.. the ORIGINALS.. with Big Ears, Golliwog and noddy gets drunk one night, smashes the car.. BRILLIANT :) No crap new-age editing. :banana:

[s3raph]

Respect to that. You should scan them. When I was a child I read the original Winnie the Pooh books, the ones from before those Disney cunts had sunk their claws into it.

[CharmedOne]

Good Idea. Dad brought these ones over from London with him 50 something years ago now.. I used to read one every night as a kid.. and they still look in good nic.

I too have read the ORIGINAL winne the pooh books.. we have them also. Disney did manage to tear those books apart. Sad. :(

[Al]

sword of truth series by terry goodkind

LOVED it. Definately one of my fav.

[hazza]

the alex delaware series by john kellehman, a shrink helps out a cop with like fucked up cases, the earlier books have some really fucked up descriptions which make ur gut twist

[beowulf437]

The Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Fondation books by Isaac Asimov

[BlueBoy]

The BattleTech (back when I bought the books) was really good.

I wish I hadn't slipped and stopped buying them, I'll never catch up now.

[The Cunt]

Black Label Edition Penthouse.

[44Harry]

The Rats Trilogy by James Herbert.

I have never read a book since that through the description given by the author made me want to vomit :D

[ShinymetalASS]

Discworld

+rep for you cause the Discworld series is freakin brilliant.

Lord of the Isles - David Drake
Deverry Series - Katherine Kerr
Eilenaan Series - Kate Forsyth
Obernewton Series - Isobell Carmody
Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice
LOTR - OF COURSE!! (including Silmarillion and Hobbit, etc)
Cosmic Trilogy - CS Lewis
Gormenghast - Mervin Peak
Does Tin tin count?
Was a huge fan of Le Guin's series too when I was a little tacker.

[Fenaughty]

Hitchhikers
Necrospcope series - Brian Lumley


I agree, Sword of Truth series was excellent

[Guest.]

The entire Dr Seuss collection.. oh that and all the Noddy books, the ones my dad got given when he was a child.. the ORIGINALS.. with Big Ears, Golliwog and noddy gets drunk one night, smashes the car.. BRILLIANT :) No crap new-age editing. :banana:


I've still got my original Thomas The Tank Engine books, I have never looked at the modern incarnations of them but I would also imagine they would be different.

I flick through them every now and again. Makes me smile.

[Ash_Housewares]

The BattleTech (back when I bought the books) was really good.

I wish I hadn't slipped and stopped buying them, I'll never catch up now.

the battletech universe has been jumped forward in time, and i'm pretty sure that all the new books will be set in the updated timeline. so as long as you don't care about the new timeline (which looks kinda sucky) you should be able to finally catch up!

[sagit]

Nancy Drew mysteries

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I mean "The Wanderers series" by Caiseal Mor

[wolfpac181]

Yes... vampire chronicles were good.
read all the way up to Memnoch the Devil.
got way too boring, stopped. still got a few others to read. Just no time

One of my contributions....gasp

The Chronicles of Narnia

[abelgold]

The Riftwar series by Raymond E Feist are the most addictive books I've come across.

Asterix books have never let me down either.

[gunsella]

the belgariad, the mallorean - david eddings
dragonlance chronicles - weiss and hickman
dune - frank herbert

do brett easton ellis books count? - he often uses the same characters.

[annie]

basically most of them have been said :

LOTR - J.R.R Tolkien ( really? i didn't know that /sarcasm)
Sword of Truth- Terry Goodkind
Riftwar - Raymond E Feist
The View From the Mirror Quartet - Ian Irvine
The Belgariad - David Eddings
Bitterbynde trilogy - Cecilia Dart Thornton
Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice ( close to being my favourite)
Harry Potter - J.K Rowling
Abhorson Trilogy - Garth Nix
Otherland Series - Tad Williams

hmm.. i'm sure there's more... as you can tell i spend a lot of my time reading...
and i wish i owned all of them :(

[void*]

Dragonflight through to The White Dragon
The Harper series (DragonSinger / DragonSong / DragonDrums).

Rest of Anne McCaffrey I can take or leave. But those ones were good.

[Hairyman]

How about Patrick O'Brien's series of Aubrey and Mathurin?

[criminy]

I've still got my original Thomas The Tank Engine books, I have never looked at the modern incarnations of them but I would also imagine they would be different.

I flick through them every now and again. Makes me smile.

Yes, my original copy of "Henry the Green Engine" describes some boys blasted by smoke and soot from Henry's funnel as running away "as black as niggers".

Gold.

[Sparhawk]

Elenium/Tamuli - Eddings
View from the Mirror - Irvine
For nostalgia purposes:
The Lone Wolf Series - Joe Dever

[jae_hyung]

has anyone said Narnia?
i loved those series

[reaperman]

The Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb.

Had been sitting on my shelf since my 21st bday, started reading it in November and just finished. Loved it so much have gone out to buy the two other trilogys she has written.

The Bournce Trilogy was pretty good too, movies ruined it though.

[criminy]

has anyone said Narnia?
i loved those series

I quite enjoyed these, although my enjoyment was somewhat tainted by the fact that it's probably the most thinly veiled Christian allegory imaginable.

A good summary here (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/lewis.horse.shtml) and here (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/lewis.battle.shtml)

[Glompbot]

discworld - pratchett
the true game and the majorie westriding books by sheri s tepper (almost all of her books are somehow linked in groups of 3's... even if they don't appear to be at first)
magician by feist.

[ShinymetalASS]

has anyone said Narnia?
i loved those series

The Cosmic Trilogy is much better. Should check that out if you havent read it. Other planets/dimensions/beings. Kicks ass

[Aardvark]

I read a series a while back about Australia being invaded by some unknown country of somesort. Can't remember who by. All I remember about it was it was fantastic, up until the third book, then kind of felt lame after that. I found out later that he was only planning on writing three, but badgering, foxing, wolfing and bearing got the rest of the series out of him.

Used to read a lot of dragonlance. It passed the time

Also used to read a whole lot of serial killer novels that seemed to be polluting the best sellers lists. After the first... few pages of the first one, I was able to guess the entire plot, predicting the gripping twist they warn you about in the blurb to within three pages. When I take over this planet, a whole lot of bestselling authors are going to die by ritualistic serial killer

[Movius]

I read a series a while back about Australia being invaded by some unknown country of somesort. Can't remember who by. All I remember about it was it was fantastic, up until the third book, then kind of felt lame after that. I found out later that he was only planning on writing three, but badgering, foxing, wolfing and bearing got the rest of the series out of him.That would be the Tomorrow when the war began series by John Marsden.

[ShinymetalASS]

You'd be talking about Marden's the Day After tommorow series. I always thought the implied invader was Indonesia.

yeah. oops. thats tomorrow that he said up there. anyway. they were good for about two books and then got kinda boring. i was a little tacker when they came out, and it was about the time I discovered Carmody and Eddings... so I moved on. Was fascinated as a 12 year old by the idea of getting to be in your own little guerilla group. but i digress. again.

[Aardvark]

Yes. That was it. I demand those precious hours wasted on the last half of that series back.

[ElevatorShoes]

anyone ever read schodengers cat trilogy by robert anton wilson?

[Aardvark]

Nope

Anyone read The Diceman, by Luke Reinheart?

Not really a series, but that book was fanfuckingtastic

[gunsella]

i LOVE diceman. and whilst not technically a series, there is a sequel - search for diceman, as well as the book of the die - kinda like a bible for those that follow the religion of the die.

[The Avatar]

Amtrak Wars by Patrick Tilley

and the number one greatest and most violent series Ive ever read:

Richard Morgans Altered Carbon, and Broken Angels. The thrid one is about to be released. Wooot!

Its about a retired military evoy called Takashi Covacs. He works as a detective/mecenary. The next book will be based on Harlem's World (his homeworld) and will invole his family who he hasnt seen for around 120 years.

[Sparhawk]

Didn't know that second one was also about Kovacs. I like Altered Carbon, and it certainly the most violent thing I've ever read.

I never finished Amtrak Wars; I wonder what happened in the end. Stupid library system.

[The Avatar]

Prophecy came true, but there was two chosen ones, one good and one evil. All she-cargo mutes were killed except for cadilac and clearwater. Steve and Ros also killed, but merged with cadillac and clearwater: two souls in one body etc. etc.

Broken angels is cool, very much a downer though as its on a shit world during a war and Kovacs is a mercenary. Worth the read though!

[Hairyman]

Has anyone read the Lensman series? I thought it was a cracker when I was a kid.

[Munchkin]

Discworld - Pratchett.
LotR - Tolkien.
DE trilogy - Salvatore.

[Manshoon]

Discworld series is and continues great.
Forgotten Realms series by R A Salvatore based around Drizzt Do'Urden always has me interested.
The Dragonlance series of books is another.
I like the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb but didnt quite like the Liveship as much....havent looked at the Tawny Man Trilogy yet but may do.
The Red Dwarf series of books is also rather amusing
One more....Terry Brooks The Word and The Void Trilogy was also very awesome.

[arelius19]

its really one big series with a bunch of mini series's that are all consistent in all ways time event etc etc...
and thats all the forgotton realms r.a salvatore books about drizzt breunour cattie-bir and wulfgar...

such great books