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Aranarth
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Dec 24 2014, 3:18pm
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Which Fictional book series (besides Middle Earth) is your Favorite?
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If none of the above please post in the comments below.
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Annael
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Dec 24 2014, 3:36pm
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I re-read it often, find new things in it every time. After that, Jim Butcher's Dresden series. Then Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Also re-read Julian May's Pliocene Exile series, Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series, Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series, Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series (although it lost steam for me after about the 10th book), Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster and Cygnet series, John Varley's Titan series, and PC Hodgell's Godstalk series.
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sevilodorf
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Dec 24 2014, 4:04pm
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Dragons and more dragons
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Kim
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Dec 24 2014, 6:47pm
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Although Narnia comes in a close second.
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Mikah
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Dec 24 2014, 9:07pm
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Patrick Rothfuss' series of books are the ones that I have enjoyed the most besides Tolkien. I absolutely love this writer and owe my friend Shana a huge debt for introducing me to these books! I can not wait for the last one! I really do enjoy George RR Martin and Joe Abercrombie as well.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Dec 25 2014, 2:56pm
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I also love Harry Potter. And the Little Women series and the Anne of Green Gables series have long been favorites. And the Dark is Rising series.
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Otaku-sempai
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Dec 25 2014, 3:09pm
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None of those listed above. However, I still have too many loved series to pick a single favorite. - Anne McCaffrey's Pern - Moorcock's Elric (and Hawkmoon and Corum) - Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser - Eddings' Elenium and Begariad - Roger Zelazny's Amber - Jim Butcher's Dresden - Pratchett's Discworld - Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - And others including non-s.f./fantasy series such as Maxwell Collins' Nate Heller mysteries.
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Ataahua
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Dec 25 2014, 8:36pm
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with Pern a close second.
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Gianna
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Dec 26 2014, 2:26am
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The only other ones from your list that I've read are Harry Potter, Hunger Games, the Iliad, and Jules Verne. I really like Jules Verne, Iliad was fun (though frightfully gory ), Hunger Games was okay but not great, and I did not enjoy Harry Potter much at all! I would really recommend James Anderson and Marc Sebanc's Legend of the Stone Harp series, though (Book 1: The Stoneholding and Book 2: Darkling Fields of Arvon). After Middle-earth and Narnia, it is certainly my favourite fantasy series.
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Loresilme
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Dec 26 2014, 2:59am
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I enjoy the HP books very much. I find they are very readable and re-readable. My opinions on the others I've read from the list: Was never a Narnia fan. I just could not connect with it. Divergent, Hunger Games (I'd add Maze Runner to this): All had an interesting first book, and then the rest of the series falls apart Eragon was so incredibly, incredibly derivative, I could barely read it Game of Thrones is way too violent for me Jules Verne - I like his books but not to read more than once And, ditto for T.H. White - I liked The Once & Future King series
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Darkstone
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Dec 26 2014, 7:04pm
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aka, The Ring of Fire series by Eric Flint
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Angharad73
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Dec 26 2014, 7:13pm
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...is very high on my list, but there are several other series that I love, such as the Peter Grant books by Ben Aaronovitch and the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley. Together with Harry Potter, these are the three series that I love most, but there are still others that I also adore.
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Magpie
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Dec 26 2014, 7:53pm
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I never have *one* favorite anything
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But since it's always assumed people have *one* favorite, I guess I'm just odd in that way. some of my favorite series: Darkover - Marion Zimmer Bradley Pern Universe - Anne McCaffrey, esp. the earlier novels (later ones not so much) The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper Dresden Files - Jim Butcher Harry Potter - JK Rowling The Mabinogion Tetralogy - Evangeline Walton and I liked the shared universes of Thieves' World and Borderlands.
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Meneldor
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Dec 27 2014, 4:34am
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My favorites change more often than the weather. But there are some that I keep coming back to.
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Magpie
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Dec 27 2014, 5:07am
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It's not that my favorites change
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it's that I just have stuff I like. I don't elevate any one item to a superior acme position although I do tend to focus on stuff in waves and during certain moods. When I'm reading Butcher I love reading it. But it's not, at that moment, a favorite above other books I read last month, last year, or last decade that I loved at the moment I read them.
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arithmancer
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Dec 28 2014, 5:35pm
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If you mean, series set in a fictional(ized) world...
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I would vote for Harry Potter, probably. But fiction series overall, Sherlock Holmes and Dumas Musketeer books would also be in the running.
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Escapist
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Dec 28 2014, 5:40pm
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I go more for the likes of Watership Down, Alice in Wonderland, or Dune (only the first one). I don't so much go for a lot of the newer stuff that has come out - especially when too many (a disproportionate ratio) of the important characters are kids / teenagers. I don't so much gravitate toward the dystopian type of scifi/fantasy.
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Magpie
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Dec 28 2014, 6:54pm
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Have you tried the Dresden Files?
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It's not an easy thing to categorize. It's not dystopian. There are a few younger people but no teenage angst. It's definitely for an adult market. It's got this odd but effective mixture of genre: fantasy, a little bit of horror, detective... When I was reading them, I offered them to my husband knowing these weren't his sort of books. He was completely uninterested in them. Later, he picked them up for some reason and before long, he was completely hooked. I love them. My 30 year old son loves them. And to find one thing the three of us love is rare. We're lucky to have a sci-fi/fantasy book store in town that offers used books for half price - although Jim Butcher is popular and they don't have used copies of his books for long. But you can also probably get them out of the library if you're curious but not sure.
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Escapist
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Dec 28 2014, 7:45pm
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I just did some light research on Dresden files -
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that does look like something I would really like! I might have to look up a volume or two to see. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Magpie
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Dec 28 2014, 8:30pm
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I think it gets better as it goes
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I'm not sure how much Butcher finds his groove over time or how much the reader just starts getting really invested in the characters. But it gets a lot of hype on these boards (look at old 'what are you reading' threads) and I'd hate for anyone to expect to be wowed on the first book. But I think its decent reading even at the beginning and sticking with it has good rewards.
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Finding Frodo
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Dec 29 2014, 4:53pm
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I said "other" because "none" wasn't an option
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If I had to pick one, I might go with Narnia, but I didn't read all of those. On further thought, I'll go with the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. That's the only other series of books I love. On further, further thought, I agree that the Middle Earth books aren't really a series to me. There's just The Hobbit and LotR. Do two books make a series? The Sil isn't really a continuation, but an offshoot. I guess it could be considered a prequel to The Hobbit, but since I read it last, it doesn't feel that way to me. Am I just being difficult?
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Magpie
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Dec 29 2014, 7:40pm
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They could fall into the 'shared universe' concept
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although usually that refers to various authors setting their stories within in one conceptual universe (with their characters, to some extent). In this case, it's one universe and one author.
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Dec 30 2014, 6:00am
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I never have one favorite; I collect them and am always happy to find a new one. I like each one for itself and its own set of characteristics. And I hate to rank them, and see no real need to. After all, there are so many different reasons to like things, and so many different times to enjoy them, why not have a favorite for every occasion? Which isn't to say that I like everything, just that when I find something I do like, I tend to like it always and retain a fondness for it even when something new comes along. Make new friends, but keep the old, as the old song goes.
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Otaku-sempai
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Dec 30 2014, 1:13pm
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although usually that refers to various authors setting their stories within in one conceptual universe (with their characters, to some extent). In this case, it's one universe and one author. Yes; better examples of shared universe book series would include the Thieves' World anthologies edited by Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey; The Wild Cards books edited by George R.R. Martin; and books set in game settings such as the Forgotten Realms of D&D.
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