Well there's always Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, and that's a fun one to read if you dont mind 11 books all pushing 700-1,000 pages. Also there's a fundamental base of Objectivist philosophy in the series, so if that's not your thing then maybe pass it up. But they are great books.
Some easier, less dense reading...I'd suggest spending a few days powering through the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. Eragon was a good book, if a bit cliche. Eldest was not quite as good, but it was worth a read in my opinion. Brisingr (the last book that's been released) was easily the best in the cycle, and I'm very glad Paolini didnt disappoint.
A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin is a great fantasy series. There are four books all between 900 and 1,200 pages. This series is supposed to be one of the best fantasy sagas currently on shelves. I havent finished them, so I cant support that, but they ARE great books.
Then of course you could always read The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. I havent read anything by him that was bad, ever. The Silmarillion is another beautiful novel that I would put right up there with the main trilogy.
Well I believe Song of Ice and Fire has another book or so coming out, as does the Inheritance Cycle. So of my suggestions those are the only two incomplete series.
Truth be told, I wouldn't limit myself to series' that havent finished. Because there are so many great books out there that have finished. Like Harry Potter. Would you tell someone not to read them just because they've all been released? Nah.
To each his own, but I promise you're missing out on decades (and well over a century) worth of great books.
Yeah I think you're right, I just didn't get into HP soon enough to enjoy the books as they came out so I'm anxious to find something I can ride the wave of.
Thanks for the sound advice, I'll take a closer look at Song of Ice and Fire.
I would recommend the Pendragon series. There are 9 books so far, the tenth is coming out in May of next year. It's an awesome series!In the first book of the series, The Merchant of Death, Bobby Pendragon is leading a normal life in Stony Brook, Connecticut, where he is the star of Stony Brook Middle School's basketball team. When he is fourteen, his uncle Press Tilton takes him to an abandoned train station where he and Bobby travel through a portal through space and time called a flume. Bobby soon finds himself in a different territory — possibly a different version of history or a different world entirely — called Denduron, where two important tribes are on the brink of a civil war because one tribe is forcing the other to work in mines. There Bobby discovers he was chosen to be a 'Traveler' between territories in order to defeat Saint Dane, an evil figure who wishes to tip all of Halla (the entirety of everything that exists, has existed, or will exist, including persons, time, and space) into chaos so that he can remake it according to his desire. To save it, Bobby must rescue ten territories from destruction.
Each territory has its own "turning point", which is a critical point in a territory's history in which the people must make an important decision. Saint Dane is trying to manipulate the people into making poor decisions, which would create chaos, while the Travelers are trying to help people make the right decision, which would create peace.
Thans to wikipedia for the good discription, because I couldn't think of one! _________________ "I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death — if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach." thanks to evanesco for the sig, and to JKR for the quote!
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