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s/o HP and book series
What is your favorite book series other than HP?
Re: s/o HP and book series
Hunger Games for me too.
I tried Outlander too. I think I got halfway through the fourth book before I gave up and I wish I had stuck with it. Maybe I'll pick it back up. The first one was good, second one was eh and the third one was OMG GOOD. Voyager was by far my favorite and worth slogging through the first two.
The Sookie Stackhouse series, followed closely by Twilight. They switch up depending on my mood. I loved both so much. Sookie gets an extra boost for length and fact that new books are still being released.
ETA: So Im reading everyone else's series and I realize how much I love fluff reading. I will read the other stuff and generally love it, but fluff is my go to choice. Hmmm, maybe I should branch out more often.
I really enjoyed Hunger Games but the last book put a downer on the series. I've been meaning to give the Outlander series a try. It's next on my list.
Songs of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. It's part fantasy but mostly crazy political intrigue in a medieval type setting with lots of sex and violence. How can you not like that?! Just when you think you know what's going to happen, BLAMMO, total game change. Nobody is safe, nothing is sacred. It's mind blowing.
HBO is producing the series starting in April, named Game of Thrones after the first novel in the series. It looks amazing.
I can't put this as my favorite because I don't think he's ever going to finish it and that annoys me SO much. It's definitely up there for me though. I'm super excited about the series though!
I absolutely love series and always have. I prefer reading them in general to stand alone titles.
Here are some of my faves in no particular order (children's series included):
Anne of Green Gables, Little House, The Borrowers, Chronicles of Narnia, HP, Stephanie Plum, Sookie Stackhouse, The Wind Dancer, The Great Brain, Kay Scarpetta, Ramona Quimby, Incarnations of Immortality, Xanth, Sweet Valley High, Hercule Poirot (technically not a series I guess), The Bridgertons
This sounds interesting and I've been looking for something new to read. I'll have to check it out.
I don't know that I have a favorite after Harry Potter. I kind of have several. I love the Odd Thomas and Frankenstien series by Dean Koontz, the Mark of the Lion by Francince Rivers, The Hunger Games. I like Outlander, but I lost patience with it around the fifth book or so.
I've tried to get into the Earthsea series several times and just haven't managed to.
Yes! Exactly. I've read excerpts from the new book (on his website) and it seems as though all hell may break loose.
No Alvin Miller? I'm surprised! By Orson Scott Card (of Ender fame, though I've never ready any of those, actually), beginning with Seventh Son. He'll probably die before releasing the last book, which I've been foaming at the mouth for, for what seems like 10 years.
ETA: Since 2003. So i wasn't far off....
If we're talking about a series with a set number of books, I'd have to say Lord of the Rings.
If it's just a never-ending type series, book I'd be most likely to pick up on a rainy saturday, that'd be stephanie plum. Those books crack me up!
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Oh! The Hatrack River/Seventh Son/Prentice Alvin series. That's a really good one. I haven't read it in years but I should catch up on it again.
Fyi, the Ender series is amazing. I highly recommend reading Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. The others are okay but the first two are by far the best. I didn't think I could like a book more than Ender's Game and then I read Speaker for the Dead and now I don't know which is my favorite of the two.
One of these days I'll read Ender.
Oh, and I just googled Orson Scott Card... He had "a minor stroke" this month and is retraining himself to be able to type with his left hand. I'm never going to know what happens. *Essplode*
Oh no! George R. R. Martin (the author of the books DP posted about that I also love) got really sick this year and was in the hospital for a while. I'm convinced he's going to die before the series is finished.