[30 days of books] series
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ironymaiden18. Your favourite book series & your favourite book out of that series
still not in favor of superlatives. i can count the clear favorite things in my life on one hand and have fingers left over. right now i'm coming up with the one i repeat often - C is my favorite person. um, Seattle is my favorite of the places i've lived. green is my favorite color. ...and now i'm scrabbling.
the tough thing about book series is that usually the first one is great and then the quality keeps dropping. often i will start out owning all of a trilogy or series and then as time goes on sell off the later books and keep only the first one because it's all that bears rereading.
the exception is a series that is really one giant continuous story. so i'll keep all of the Inda books (the third one has the most memorable scenes but i wouldn't call any one volume the best). i don't own all of the Aubrey/Maturin books yet, but i periodically do the "tell the publisher" Kindle request on amazon. because if i could have all of anything on my magic book, it would be those books. carrying twenty volumes of Aubrey/Maturin at once is what ereaders are made for. (what really pisses me off is that Norton does publish other ebooks. just not those. my hatred is pure.)
anyway, the closest thing i have to an answer to the question is Discworld. which is interesting in that there is a whole section of that series that i hate, won't own, and won't reread. Rincewind sucks. always and forever. (i note that people who try Discworld and fail usually tried with a Rincewind book. i can't blame them.) if you're familiar with Discworld, there are actually several series within the series. so i don't like the Rincewind books. and while i love the Witches, there's never been one that lived up to Wyrd Sisters. but the Guard books and the Death books are pretty consistently solid and Pratchett keeps doing interesting things with those characters. my favorite Guard book is The Fifth Elephant (dwarf culture, Sgt Angua, Gaspode, Lady Sybil kicks ass WITH OPERA). my favorite Death book is Hogfather (among other things, Pratchett writes the most accurate and evocative description of hogs i have ever read - dude has seen live pigs and evokes a powerful sense memory).
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still not in favor of superlatives. i can count the clear favorite things in my life on one hand and have fingers left over. right now i'm coming up with the one i repeat often - C is my favorite person. um, Seattle is my favorite of the places i've lived. green is my favorite color. ...and now i'm scrabbling.
the tough thing about book series is that usually the first one is great and then the quality keeps dropping. often i will start out owning all of a trilogy or series and then as time goes on sell off the later books and keep only the first one because it's all that bears rereading.
the exception is a series that is really one giant continuous story. so i'll keep all of the Inda books (the third one has the most memorable scenes but i wouldn't call any one volume the best). i don't own all of the Aubrey/Maturin books yet, but i periodically do the "tell the publisher" Kindle request on amazon. because if i could have all of anything on my magic book, it would be those books. carrying twenty volumes of Aubrey/Maturin at once is what ereaders are made for. (what really pisses me off is that Norton does publish other ebooks. just not those. my hatred is pure.)
anyway, the closest thing i have to an answer to the question is Discworld. which is interesting in that there is a whole section of that series that i hate, won't own, and won't reread. Rincewind sucks. always and forever. (i note that people who try Discworld and fail usually tried with a Rincewind book. i can't blame them.) if you're familiar with Discworld, there are actually several series within the series. so i don't like the Rincewind books. and while i love the Witches, there's never been one that lived up to Wyrd Sisters. but the Guard books and the Death books are pretty consistently solid and Pratchett keeps doing interesting things with those characters. my favorite Guard book is The Fifth Elephant (dwarf culture, Sgt Angua, Gaspode, Lady Sybil kicks ass WITH OPERA). my favorite Death book is Hogfather (among other things, Pratchett writes the most accurate and evocative description of hogs i have ever read - dude has seen live pigs and evokes a powerful sense memory).
30 questions
