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Bob Ducca:
I didn't want to completely hijack the Harry Potter thread, but it is interesting to me how we all keep drawing parallels among these fiction series.  I have read many (some great, some bad, some meh) and find them really appealing- something about those familiar characters makes me feel comfortable.

Besides HP and the Stephen King DT series, what I have read includes the Earth's Children (Auel- cave people have a lot of sex), the Wideacre trilogy (Gregory- incest and property ownership in 18th century England), the Hannibal Lecter books (Harris- a cannibal eventually finds himself), the Flowers in the Attic and Heaven series (VC Andrews- more incest...what does this say about me?  Yikes.), and that's not even counting some of the young adult series (I like Norma Johnston, anyone remember her?).

If anyone is interested, what series do you enjoy?  Any you can recommend?

purplebunny:
What series do I read... hmm...

Well, there's a lot of novels by S.M. Stirling that I enjoy (alterna-history/sci-fi).

Kage Baker's books about The Company (time travel/sci-fi).

Star Wars! There are some truly atrocious "official" Star Wars books but they are more than made up for by the good ones, which are very good.

I still read Wheel of Time, though I don't care for it much anymore. But I've read all of them so far, darn it! I just want to get to the end!

Lord of the Rings and associated. My hubby is an über-fan and has a lot of the collected writings of Tolkien as well.

A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin. I like these because they're a little more 'realistic' - at least as much as it's possible for fantasy to be realistic. Definitely a rare/low-magic setting, which doesn't crop up as often.

Farseer/Liveship/Tawny Man series by Robin Hobb. Those are some of my faves!

Clara Bow:
All things Eugenia Price, though I haven't read any of her books in years. I loved the Savannah series, I even got to see where some of the characters are buried. It was a great thing!
I loved the Green Mile books and I loved the first two VC Andrews series, the rest are dreck. I haven't read the Dark Tower yet, but it's on my list....
I also love John Jakes books, the Kent Family Chronicles and the North and South trilogy were great, I reread them from time to time just because I can't get enough. I even have the crappy miniseries of North and South and watch it sometimes, just for the high camp....

Nekolove:
Hmm.

Well of course the Harry Potter books. Can't wait for #7.

I also have read the Auel books. Clan of the Cave Bear is one of my all time favorite reads.

Every year I re-read the Little House on the Prairie series (I'm in the beginning of this year's read-through right now, actually).

And I've also read the LOTR books. But I didn't read them until after I'd seen the movies. I'm sure that means I can never truly be an uber-geek. *sniff*

ETA: because apparently I'm having some spelling deficiencies today.

wildtao:
Wow, tough one. I read so many series. *C*Let's see...short list:

Harry Potter.

The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind. Good general fantasy type book.

The Dark Tower Series by Steven King

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Started out wonderfully. The last few books...meh.

The Meredith Gentry Series by Laurel K Hamilton. Fantasy/Fae type book. Sex does play a fair part of the plot, since the main character needs to get pregnant to take the throne, but once you get past that it has some great sub-plots and interactions.

Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich. How many cars can one girl blow up?! *L*

Lord of the Rings (and the Hobbitt) By Tolkien.

Earths Children by Jean Auel. I'm eagerly awaiting the next book. Even though I know it could be years and years considering the gaps between her books already.

Nicholas Seafort series by David Feintuch. Great Sci-Fi series set in the future and surrounding the same character and the struggles he goes through in the Navy of the future.

Enders Game and Speaker for the Dead and...all of it.*G* Love Orson Scott Cards Ender's series.

Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony. Great series revolving around Death, Nature, War, Time and Fate. And God and Satan, as well.

And...I could go on, but those are the ones off the top of my head.

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