Great Books in a Series?

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[keggyhander]

I recommend the Shardlake novels by C.J. Sansom.

About a barrister (and the scrapes he gets into) during the reign of Henry VIII.

[Old Git Racing]

Tinker, Tailor, Spy trilogy by LeCarre.

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[Liono]

I'd second the Flashman recommendation, a fantastic series with an interesting historical element too. Also, the Jeeves and Wooster books make for a jolly good read.

[Deckx]

Conn Iggulden has a brilliant series on Ghengis Khan... http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Bones-Hills-Conn-Iggulden/dp/0385342802/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Len Deighton with his spy series based in the cold war

http://www.amazon.com/Sinker-Hook-Line-Len-Deighton/dp/0586068996

i really want to collect them all but have been putting off getting a kindle for ages... just ordered a cheap tablet so see how that goes compared to the kindle

[hedgehugger]

My Kindle has been read every day since I've had it. Over a year now.
It took me from October 'til this month to get through the Game of Thrones series, at times it seemed like a hard slog, but overall has been ok.

Terry Pratchett books are good, some better than others.
Depends on what you like really
A lot of the recommendations on here have been for sci-fi/fantasy style.

Why book series. There are plenty of good 'stand-alone' books out there.
I read a herd of short story books when I was looking for new authors to try out.

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[hellkat]

*bites lip*

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[Bubbs]

[keggyhander]

[G]

Thought I'd bump this rather old thread as I've been consuming a fair bit of classic sci-fi.

Done most of the Enderverse and overall a bit disappointed - the author seems to have a childish innocence that matches the characters of the early books, at least.

Have been really getting into Heinlein recently.
Very impressed with him in contrast. Despite the stuff I've been reading being a good bit older, it seems to have stood up to time much better.

Think I'd been put off by the film of Starship Troopers (it was actually the visual effects that left me nonplussed, but still was a bit 'meh' about it.)
Farnham's freehold had been a favourite of mine from many years ago, may have read some other of his stuff, but not connected it.
And incest 'references' - how about a quarter of the book dedicated to the main character trying then achieving it, in reasonable detail! But, meh; at least we're not talking the 'CP' of Stephen King!

[treeno]

The Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett. Cracking series so far.

[metalangel]

[G]

[metalangel]

I read the three Prelude to Dune books (named after the great houses)... and, it would seem in contrary to general opinion, enjoyed them all. Certainly they made the whole universe seem far more alive than what was seen in the original book.

However, I'm told that the Butlerian Jihad ones are terrible... as are the ones further in than series from this.
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[nowhere.elysium]

Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series is brilliant, although very weighty.

Not such a fan of Hamilton, largely due to a very juvenile plot structure (Al Capone in space doesn't really work for me), which is a pity, because he'd developed a workable universe.

Look at Stephen Baxter's Xeelee stuff, as well. He's one of the 'deep time' writers. It also ties in with his other books, which gives a nice sense of both depth and completion.
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[pinkyfloyd]

[the_godfather]

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[duhawkz]

Ian M Banks - the culture series are a decent read if you like sci-fi
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[nowhere.elysium]

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While I do like some of Heinlein relaxed and intelligently liberal views of human interaction in the future; I do find the way all his female characters want to have kids as being a bit incongruent with the rest.
Oh and his archetypal like of cats.

Messiah was actually the first Dune book I read and enjoyed it - then saw the film after a while, then read the rest of the books.

Never got on with Alastair Reynolds.

Since I posted I have cooled to Hamilton's series a bit.

[pinkyfloyd]

[nowhere.elysium]

I have the same problem with Asimov as I do with Orson Scott Card; his writing style is incredibly childish, which is a massive shame, because his ideas genuinely do hold water, insofar as an overarching plot goes.

Peter Watts' Blindsight was a surprisingly good read, although it's a weird book to get into initially; I'm not sure if it was a debut novel, or if he's just not found his stride yet, but there's some genuinely interesting stuff in there, although it feels like a bit of an uphill march at times. That's another one that's free, via Feedbooks (I think).

I notice that no-one's mentioned William Gibson yet. Despite his heavily stylised and somewhat fragmentary style, I think that's a bit of an injustice; he did, after all, pretty much invent cyberpunk (not single-handedly, but he is seen as the primary architect of the genre).
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[qb78]

Ah, the Sven Hassel adventures when I was a nipper.
Happy days.
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