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In case you haven't figured out from my user name, my favorite major book series is the Forgotten Realms series, but my favorite mini series in that series has to be the Shandril's Saga by Ed Greenwood.

 

B) ...........Amost too many to post, Milchner, Stephen King, Amm Rice, Grisham ... and too many others to qoute

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I like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which is a trilogy in 5 parts) and His Dark Materials (which is just a trilogy). Also Harry Potter, still, and A Song of Ice and Fire. And The Dresden Files. Heh, when I started this list I was like, do I actually read any book series anymore? Apparently I do...

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Sword of Truth and Wheel of Time series.

 

I suppose I should say Harry Potter but I hated all the books.

 

Oh my God, Sword of Truth! I used to love those. Read up to The Pillars of Creation, but then that one was just SO BORING and I couldn't take it anymore. First couple of books were pretty great, though. :P

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The Black Dagger Brotherhood

Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles

The Lord of the rings Trilogy

The Harry Potter series

David Demmell's Drenai series and Regante series

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I don't have a favourite but here are some I enjoy reading:

  • the Maze runner series by James Dashner
  • the pure series by Julianne Baggott
  • the gone series by Michael Grant
  • the enemy series by Charlie Higson
  • the CHERUB series and Henderson's boys series by Robert Muchamore
  • the harry potter series by JK Rowling
  • the Mortal Chaos series by Matt Dickinson
  • the hunt series by Andrew fukuda

and I cannot stand the twilight series.

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The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson

The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings series - Tolkien

Ringworld series - Larry Niven

The Saga of Recluse series / The Corean Chronicles - L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

Memory, Sorrow And Thorn series / Otherland series / Shadow series - Tad Williams

The Robot series / The Foundation series - Asimov

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 1st & 2nd series - Stephen R. Donaldson

The Trade Pact Universe series / The Clan Chronicles series - Julie E. Czerneda

The Tawny Man / The Liveship Traders / The Farseer / The Soldier Son - all Trilogies / The Rain Wilds Chronicles - Robin Hobb

A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin

The Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind

The Stone Dance Of The Chameleon - Ricardo Pinto (what an amazing world he created - heavy read but I highly recommend)

 

As you can see, I am a series kind of guy.

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Stephen King's Dark Tower books which are strangely the only books by him I've enjoyed.

 

When I was a kid there was The Great Brain series which long remained a favorite.  That must have been when I was around 7 years old.  Those and the choose your own adventure books are part of what made me love to read.

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Oh, my first series that I was completely hooked on was Animorphs. They're not technically good (okay, so they're complete crap, really), but I really loved them when I was a kid, so they hold a special place in my heart still. :3

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I tend to only buy series, actually, but I don't have any one favorite and I've found after so long, they tend to get  blah.

 

Some of the ones I own:

 

Black Dagger Brotherhood

Immortals After Dark

Anita Blake

Argeneau Series

Dark Hunters

Wheel of Time

Sword of Truth

Dune

LoTR

Little House on the Prairie

Outlander

Dragonriders of Pern

Freedom Series

Anne of Green Gables

New Species

Xxan War

 

... and many, many more

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Cassandra Clare - The Mortal Instruments Series

JK Rowling - Harry Potter Series

R.A. Salvatore - The DemonWars Saga

 

When I was a kid it was:

 

Sweet Valley Junior High

Sweet Valley High

Anne M. Martin - The Baby-sitters Club

Christopher Pike's - Chain Letter, Final Friends and Remember Me

R,L. Stine's - Fear Street

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My tastes in reading all over the map.  But if we limit to just fiction a few of my favorites would be:

 

The Belgariad - Eddings

The Malloreon - Eddings

The Elenium - Eddings

The Tamuli - Eddings

The Amber Series - Zelazny

Dancing Gods Series - Chalker

Well World Series - Chalker

Darwath Series - Hambly

Windrose Chronicles - Hambly

The James Asher series - Hambly

Mistborn Trilogy - Sanderson

Black Magician Trilogy - Canavan

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Someone here jogged my memory.

 

The Dark Tower series is absolutely fantastic and if you haven't read it, you need to.

 

Also, the Chronicles of Drizzt is rather good if you can deal with the crap the last couple books were.

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well I like

L.E. Modisitt Jr's Imager Series

Most of Edding's series of books... which the exception of the Dreamers and the Redemption of Athalus...(they ended really lame)

Raymond E. Fiests continueing sagas about Pug. :evil:

Sword of Truth up to the pillars of Creation...

The Wheel of Time.

Scott Lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora, and Red Seas Under Red Skies...

 

I like lots of others, but those are the ones i like the most... (although not in any particular Order)

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Oh my God! I'm laughing my ass completely off!  :lmao:   HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA   THUMP!

 

The Service of the Sword is a collection of short stories and novellas.

 

One of the stories is called A Ship Named Francis.  It's the funniest damned thing I've ever read.

 

You must find it and laugh your ass off too.

 

wikipedia entry:

 

A Ship Named Francis by John Ringo and Victor Mitchell

 

Sean Tyler, a corpman in the Royal Manticorian Navy, thought that a stint as a loaner in the explosively-growing Grayson Space Navy would boost his career. So, when there was a slot vacant on board the cruiser Francis Mueller, his wish was granted. Unfortunately for Corpsman Tyler, no one told him that almost everybody on board the Francis—from the clueless captain to the psychotic XO and the panicky chaplain—had been sent there because no one else in the entire Grayson Space Navy wants them.

 

Hilarity ensues...

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Agreed about, "A Ship Named Francis." I almost included John Ringo's Legacy of Aldenata series, but really it's just Gust Front that I enjoy as much as I do. It is probably my single favorite Military sci-fi novel ever, and that's counting Honor Harrington and the Stars at War series. Luckily, that novel is available for free, as is it's predecessor in it's series, A Hymn Before Battle.

 

Baen is a pretty cool publisher. Between them and Nifty, it seemed like most of my reading was in digital format years before Kindles hit the market. It made switching over to all digital a no brainer.

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Sword of Truth and Wheel of Time series.

 

I suppose I should say Harry Potter but I hated all the books.

Both were excellent - wish they would finish em but its hard for Jordan to write after he have passed away.

Eddings has 5 excellent series out as well.

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Both were excellent - wish they would finish em but its hard for Jordan to write after he have passed away.

Eddings has 5 excellent series out as well.

 

Wheel of time has been finished by Sanderson based on Jordan's extensive notes and with the wife's approval. The last novel in the series is on it's 5th printing, I believe. I've been savoring it section by section (not chapter) so I can prolong the finish.

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