I don't want it to end! Book series.

[Patti (baconater)]

Series that you've lived. That you ache for the next book.

Share them here and tell us why we want to share the the joy and pain.

Inspired by the most recent posts here.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Michelle]

Well like I said at the moment for me it's Patrick Rothfuss's Wise Man's Fear. His character Kvothe is just wonderful.

Another I don't want to let go right now is Orson Scott Card's tales and I've only got Bean's tale left within the Ender verse. I just don't want the world to end and I'm not really feeling the prequels.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh grief. Orson Scott Card.

Books I've disappeared into. I've still got a few I'm hoarding.

I love that I'm finding new authors in our group. They're young. They won't disappear before I'm done with them. ;)

[Simon (Highwayman)]

In the rainforests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within its pages are 9 key insights into life itself - insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially, one insight then another, as we move toward a completely spiritual culture on Earth

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Celestine...


The Celestine prophecy.



A novel you just want to believe.

[David]

Piers Anthony's 'Incarnations of imortality', and Terry Goodkind's 'Sword of Truth'. Read the entire series of both twice, and some of the books four times, just to get back into that world while waiting for the next book to come out. 'Incarnations' was the book that really got me into reading and enjoying fiction in my early 20s. Terry Goodkind, just love his writing style, though he does tend to repeat himself too much. Brandon Sanderson's 'Mistborn' trilogy would have been a killer too, but they were all written by the time I discovered the first book.

[Darren]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.I will miss them when he can do them no longer. I think that I'm missing them already.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

My series this year is our Mel's Justice series, wonder if I'll finish before she writes another one

[Steven]

Steig Larsson, how I wish he hadn't died. We would still be having the pleasure of finding more about Lisbet Salander otherwise.
I do realize that he'd started the beginning and the end of the fourth book but his father, brother and girlfriend appear to be at loggerheads over it. We may never see that being published :-(

AND! Barry Hughart, I want him to write more but he isn't going to.

[Jim]

Oh Barry Hughart Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was, The Story of the Stone: A Master Li Novel, Eight Skilled Gentlemen

I picked up the first one remaindered in 1990 and then hunted down the other two the following year. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant, China as it never quite was.

Then there's Ernest Bramah's stories about Kai Lung starting with The Wallet of Kai Lung. Another world to immerse yourself in.

Finally to make up the big three, the Suldrun's Garden,The Green Pearl, Madouc that make up Jack Vance's Lyonesse trilogy. These I waited for as they came out and there were years between each one, he was an old man even then.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Steven wrote: "Steig Larsson, how I wish he hadn't died. We would still be having the pleasure of finding more about Lisbet Salander otherwise.
I do realize that he'd started the beginning and the end of the fou..."

I forgot about that series, I did enjoy it. I also enjoyed the Hannibal trilogy (yes, i know he has written 4, but the original 3 are much better). I do like the Odd Thomas books too.

[Simon (Highwayman)]

I love odd Thomas. I have to buy them as soon as they come out.

[Elle]

Emma can attest I have been hanging onto the Drake Sisters books for a long time. Can't seem to be able to read the last one as that means it will be the end (not like Feehan doesn't have like a million other books to read...)

Also I really didn't want the Percy Jackson series to finish either.


(As a child my first thought would of been Harry Potter but as an adult I'm glad she left it off there even though I miss them)

[Michael]

Another vote for Terry Pratchett's discworld.

Saddest of all is Ian M Banks' Culture series, it's such a shame there'll be no more :-(

[Patti (baconater)]

Simon (Highwayman) wrote: "I love odd Thomas. I have to buy them as soon as they come out."

There's a film out now, I think.

[David]

Darren wrote: "Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.I will miss them when he can do them no longer. I think that I'm missing them already."

I'm deliberately spacing them out to make them last as long as possible.

[David]

Michael wrote: "Saddest of all is Ian M Banks' Culture series, it's such a shame there'll be no more :-("

True.

[David]

I'm rather partial to an obscure little series called Game of Thrones, don't know if anybody else has heard of it.

Rather took with the first book of N.K.Jesimin's first of her Inheritance Trilogy.

Cornwell's Sharpe books as well as his Authur and Alfred seriessss.

I'll second the already mentioned Patrick Rothfuss Kingkiller series.

Hugh Howey's Wool series too.

Stephen King's Dark Tower.

[Will]

It's funny - I couldn't think of a single book where I was sorry when it ended. I hadn't realised it before, but I tend to like books with a very definite end to them, where the action is resolved and the conclusion reached.

There are authors who I wish would write more. I'd echo what others have said about Iain Banks and I really wish that Harper Lee would have written more than one book (but what a book!).

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh, I loathe cliffhangers unless the next book is already published. I go out of way to avoid books that don't end in a satisfying way.

Books that revisit favourite characters are wonderful.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Simon (Highwayman) wrote: "I love odd Thomas. I have to buy them as soon as they come out."

There's a film out now, I think."

Not sure its been released in the UK but has been made. I forgot about the Dark Tower series

[Rosen]

I hate the way that 75% in, you can't wait to see how it ends. You stay up reading as your eyes beg you to shut. Then as soon as it does end, you think 'Aw shoot! Now it's ended.'

[Vanessa (aka Dumbo)]

Terry Pratchatt's Discworld for me too.

I had every one of them but sadly had to leave them behind when my home was repossessed. But I'll gradually get them all back on my kindle hopefully so that I can read them all again.

Also the CJ Samson historical fiction books I love as well.

Not forgetting to mention our Darren, Steve and now Will's books as well. Ooh and Carl. Sorry if I've missed anyone.

[Marc]

never read a series in my life I'm afraid

[Tim]

Vanessa (aka Dumbo) wrote: "Terry Pratchatt's Discworld for me too.

I had every one of them but sadly had to leave them behind when my home was repossessed. But I'll gradually get them all back on my kindle hopefully so that..."

Get the audiobook versions - the narrator's a mate of mine!

[Jud]

I've read loads of serieses?! series's series' seri? But I can't think of any now...

LOTR
HP
GoT
Percy Jackson
Eragon - I think I wanted this one to go on but only fleetingly, I enjoyed them as they were but an extra book would probably be too much, they weren't THAT good.
Got bored of the Alex Cross series before it finished, if it is even finished yet.
Discworld I loved but I think reading them all in 1 year meant I was quite ready for the series to end, although would love to read more Death and Witches ones.

I'm currently enjoying a few other series at the minute but not finished them :o)

[Vanessa (aka Dumbo)]

I forgot our Andy Barrett, how could I forget him.

[Jud]

And Steve Robinson

[Patti (baconater)]

Darren Whatsisname.

[Tim]

Who?

[Patti (baconater)]

Funny looking guy. Weird accent. Has loads of tattoos and piercings.

[Tim]

Oh, *him*

[Patti (baconater)]

Writes a half decent book, though.

[Will]

Rothfuss for me. Can't wait for the last part of the Kingkiller Chronicle.