Books in a series

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Fievel121

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Okay I love reading books that are part of a series. Anyone have recomendations

I've read
Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Tom Clany's Jack Ryan Series in chronoligical order (technically I guess it's not a series)

Currently Reading Lonesome Dove series
 
The Odd Thomas series by Dean Koonz I love, Odd Thomas is probably my favorite literary character.

The Dark towers (7 part series) by Stephen King is really good, and I'm not a King fan. Really, really good.

Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis is a favorite for me, and Harry Potter if you haven't read those. More kids books type, but even reading them as an adult I love them- taps into the inner kid. As well as Lord of the Rings if you haven't read that.

Off the top of my head those are 5 pretty good series I think.

I also like (and you will too if you like Military and/or historical fiction) the WEB Griffin series. There are 3 or 4 different franchises at least. They are all pretty close to the same, but almost all fun stories.

I love reading, and I too like series, so I'll be interested to see what others think.
 
I spend my professional life thinking seriously about books, and so when I get a break I always pick up something that I can read with little critical attention. Right now this has been The Sword of Truth series. A lot of em, and they're pretty engrossing, even if not terribly intellectually stimulating.
 
Jean Auel's:

The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Valley of Horses
The Mammoth Hunters
The Plains of Passage
The Shelters of Stone
 
Regarding "The Chronicles of Narnia"
I am a HUGE proponent of reading "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" FIRST!

"The Magician's Nephew" may be a prequel, but I think that there's extra magic in reading it 6th instead of 1st.

I'm reading a book that looks at "TLTW&TW" chapter by chapter (just started) an it states at the start that at first C.S. Lewis only planned to write one book. Then the second book was going to be it. Then he decided, ok we'll go with three. It was only in response to some kid that he said, "Oh yeah, 'The Magician's Nephew' should be read first."

BULL$#!+!!!

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Try the Pendergast novels by Lincoln and Childs - well written b-rate horror. Relics, Requiem, Cabinet of Curiosities for starters

Kingsman trilogy by Ben Bova

Myth Series by Robert Aspirin for comedy/fantasy - first book is Myth Adventures

Just recently read Night Soldiers by Alan Furst - it's the first book in a series of WWII era spy novels
 
Growing up I really enjoyed the Piers Anthony series of Xanth.

The first one was A Spell for Chameleon.

I would love to see these made into a movie.
 
Loop, don't go back and re-read those now. I made that mistake w/ Anthony's Apprentice Adept series.

I recall those being very good books when I was 10 or so, but they didn't hold up well at all - in fact, they were painful to re-read at times, but I had to get through them again for nostalgia's sake.
 
I never read the Blue Adept series, hmmm. Dammit, I actually pulled A Spell for Chameleon off the shelf to maybe read it again. I am a skeered to now. I wonder how the over the top puns will go over now. Wow, I was about ten when I first read them too!

Which of the two series did you enjoy better?
 
George Fraser's series of novels, ostensibly based on the memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman are hugely entertaining and very funny. Fraser did lots of research on the period and topics on which he wrote, so the books also convey a pretty accurate depiction of the times.
 
Colleen McCullough's Rome series starting with "First Man in Rome" is brilliant.

Patrick Obrian's Aubrey/Maturin novels are very good, too.
 
I liked them both pretty well at the time - I think I probably got through 25 or 30 of the Xanth books before I outgrew them. I was going to reread those first few Xanth ones as well, but decided against after the Adept series - sometimes it's better to leave things alone =).
 
When I was traveling throughout Europe, St. Petersberg, Russia, Israel, & Turkey back in 1997, I read about 2 or 3 of Tom Clancy's "Op-Center" books. One or two touched on several cities I had visited and that added to the story.
 
Like science fiction? The "Lensman" series by E.E. Smith, is really good. There are quite a few books, but fast reads. They have won numerous awards, and I can see a lot of what came out in Star Wars in them. You can find them at Half Price Books, at least sometimes.
Of course, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, preceded by the Hobbit, is great.
 
Dune series, Herbert
Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
Border Trilogy, McCarthy
Sharpes series, Cornwell
Aubrey/Maturin Series, O'brien
Jurassic Park > Lost World, Crichton
Hornblower, Forester
The Second World War, Churchill
Sherlock Holmes, Doyle
 
Harlan Coben has a series of books in which the protagonist is a sports agent who ends up trying to solve murders/mysteries on his client's behalf...They are incredibly entertaining. The first one is called 'Deal Breaker'
 
Michael Connelly novels are excellent crime fiction and Connelly is an outstanding writer.

Those novels featuring Harry Bosch are the best, some of which are:

A Darkness More than Night
The Concrete Blonde
Trunk Music
Black Ice
Lost Light
The Last Coyote

Highly recommended.
 
The series that starts with the Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker. Takes place in Austin-- which makes it interesting since you actually have knowledge of the places being described. The second one is called "under the beetles's cellar"-- it's be best, but all three are very good. Crime drama written from a crime writer's point of view.

If you've never read "Pillars of the Earth" my Ken Follet, it's a good one-- a long epic type thing about master builders in the like 1400s I think. There is a second one now called "World without End" that takes up w/ the relatives of the characters in the first book-- very very good, fun drama you don't have to think too much about.

Patricia Cornwell's Scarpeta series is good-- about a woman who does autopsies -- to early to remember the actual title-- who is always getting in the middle of solving the crimes.

And there's always Harry Potter
 
Hyperion by Dan Simmons. There are only four books though and the main character doesn't even get a name until the third book although she is central to the first two. I want to see the creators of 300 put the Hyperion Universe into play staring someone like Summer Glau with Nelly Furtado's "All Good Things" as the main character's theme song.
 
Aubrey/Maturin is an outstanding series.

Ice & Fire books are outstanding. They are grown up Tolkien and are very well written.

I have read both but an listening to them an audio. Great audio books.

The Civil War is an excellent narrative history. Don't be intimidated by the 7 pound books.

Horatio Hornblower is worth reading. Not a bad miniseries either.
 
The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies

If I do nothing else this week but turn someone on to Davies, I will be worth the air I have breathed. Everyone I have introduced to Davies has acted as if I have given him/her a very precious gift after having read him. I feel equally indebted to the person who first handed me "What's Bred in the Bone."
 
The "Lonesome Dove Series" is a lot like the 72 ounce steak..........a great beginning, agonizing in the middle, and impossible to finish.

More power to you.
 
Jim Butcher The Dresden Files
Storm Front
Fool Moon
Grave Peril
Summer Knight
Death Masks
Blood Rites
Dead Beat
Proven Guilty
White Night
Small Favor
Turn Coat

Turn Coat comes out in April so there a11. He says there are at least 20 in the series so something to look for.

GREAT stories.
 
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