What's your fav book series! :p

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen Donaldson.

 

haha, a LITTLE darker and heavier than that =P

it's about an author with a family who contracts hansen's disease (leprosy) out of the blue and is abandoned by his wife and shunned by his entire township. He's not the most heroic hero you will ever read about...

 

i was your age when i first liked it. It took three tries... I had read it twice, once at 12 and once at 14, and didn't enjoy it a great deal either time, i think i was too young to properly understand it. I gave it another shot at 16 and absolutely fell in love with it.

it's certainly an adult book.

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and by "it", i mean the entire first trilogy, a couple of thousand pages worth. There are 9 books all together, i think Stephen is finishing off the 9th as we speak

 

Harry Potter FTW. And I like the Kay Scarpetta books by Patricia Cornwell, but I feel like they aren't a "true" series in the typical sence.

 

On the basis of story and characterization, hands down it is Harry Potter.

But I do also love the percy jackson series, including the heroes of olympus and kane chronicle series also by rick riordan, though harry potter still beats them out.

I used to be a fan of the 39 clues (childrens and young adult literature is my emphasis for my literature and creative writing classes right now, and has always been a fav passion of mine), but my interest petered out on those by book eight, when I just couldnt be bothered, even though they are like 160-230 pages each... I just dont think it was sustained very well, and then apperent the end of the first ten was just the first series in a many series group of series... and I lost faith in it.

I know it isent a series, but I love the historical fiction of Linda Crew. "A Heart for Any Fate" is the best oregon trail book I have ever read, because she refuses to romantacise the journey, and shows a more realistic reality for the oregon trail journey. Lovisa also is a great main character, and I have visited the actual grave of Lovisa, which was surreal, because I really wanted to know what she would have thought of someone visiting her grave because of a fictionalized version of her trip. it is a facisnating book.

 

I really need to try to find another that I can get into. But my current favorites are:

Harry Potter (duh), and Percy Jackson and the Olympian series.

 

"Mortal Engines" series by Philip Reeve which Peter Jackson is expect to make into movies or "Demonata" series by Darren Shan.

 

Edge Chronicles (just amazing, favorite books when i was younger)
Dragonwell series (i think that is what it's called)
Bartamaus trilogy (amazing books, just awesome)
Harry Potter
Vampire Series (interview with a vampire and all that, just started it and i like it a lot)

 

i think it is by anne rice, it is really well written and really interesting. The first movie is great to but queen of the damned sucked balls. But in the movie interview with a vampire kirstin dunce is a little girl and plays the best psycho little vampire child ever xD

 

Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

 

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. For sho.

 

How did I forget about that series, loved them

 

Discworld! Not the newer ones so much but classic Terry Pratchett is awesome. He's awesome in person too. <3
Also some of Sheri S Tepper's books. Not a series as such.... they were never marketed as a series but they follow on from each other....sort of. They're on different worlds and the stoies are centuries apart from each other but the history is sequential and there are recurring characters. So I'm gunna call it a series. I believe the sequence is Grass -> Raising the Stones -> Sideshow.