doesn’t anyone just write a nice trilogy anymore? i would really like to read fewer than eight books to get to the end.
doesn’t anyone just write a nice trilogy anymore? i would really like to read fewer than eight books to get to the end.
doesn’t anyone just write a nice trilogy anymore? i would really like to read fewer than eight books to get to the end.
I love trilogies. I start to lose interest quickly and three books are the perfect amt for me.
Tad William’s Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is a trilogy. I thought it was decent.
please don’t stone me: i slogged determinedly through the “otherland” books, and they were the longest, wordiest, most pointless books since stephen king roped me into the “tower/gunslinger” series (i made it to “wizard and glass”). NEVER again. tad williams had several weeks to impress me; NOT impressed.
@Jesse I’m trying to read The Tower series right now. But I’m not a fan of Stephen King and his fantasy series has been no different so far.
@Stephanie , you will never get this precious reading time back. as far as i can tell, his “tower” series is just a bunch of disconnected ideas he had that couldn’t grow up to be books on their own. i’d slap him for that one, for stealing my money and my time.
i just remembered: king himself said he checks the number of pages in a book, and the author has the first third of them to catch him. if he’s not engaged by then, he puts the book down.
For what it’s worth, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is better. I would say it’s one of the best trilogies out there in the fantasy genre. I, too have tried to read the gunslinger books several times over the decades and I share your opinion. However, the are lots of great suggestions in this post, so I think you’re set.
As long as they’re good the longer the better for me.
i’m not getting any younger…
You can try Daniel Abraham’s “The Long Price Quartet”. It’s four books but really good if you don’t have to have in your face action at all times.
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V.E. Schwab
Grisha trilogy?
all of these are going straight onto my TBR shelf.
A series should be max 4 books imo
all these 0.5 and 2.6’s annoy me.
I couldn’t agree more???…
do you read them? i don’t. i figure they’re afterthoughts.
I don’t either, have more than enough on my book shelf without getting them as well
Sanderson-Reckoners or
Mistborn
Robin Hobb- although the whole Realm is 16 you can read farseer trilogy or liveship trilogy as a set on their own right without needing to go into the rest of the story.
Or her solider son trilogy
Jennifer Fallon- Wolfblade trilogy
Trudi Canavan- Magicians trilogy
Anthony Ryan- Draconis Memoria
There are loads of trilogies ?
i recently finished mistborn. i was reading along, feeling bored, and then the inquisitors showed up! GREAT books!
@Jesse I love all things Sanderson. The Reckoners is listed as YA but don’t let that put you off they’re really good, super heroes with a Sanderson twist!
so there’d always be someone to recommend something to read next.
hardly any ratings on goodreads yet. they must be quite new.
i love your confidence! i’m like, “well uh, i kind of wrote a story…”
Well basically hardly anyone’s read them and I think it’s the awful place where it’s like, no one wants to read them because no body has read them haha so it’s really hard to get the spark to light the fire sort of thing but yeah I’ve read them haha and I can say they are verrry good. If I were to sum up the story in one go hmmm how about this: In a miraculous world of angels and gods, a young woman from Londen becomes a heroic figure as she helps the angels in an ancient war that has been ongoing since the dawn of time. and I did not copy and paste that from anywhere I swear haha
The first book is only 70000 which isn’t that bad. Second book issss 75000 and third, which took sooo much time and was by far the hardest to write, is 157000. Trust me, that third book almost killed me. The plots, the characters, it was all pretty tough.
@Del i know you didn’t cut and paste; you misspelled “london.” you live there; for shame! that’s funny; you hit on exactly why i hesitate to read them. i like to know what other people thought, first.
I know I misspelled London. Trust me there won’t be a misspelling in those books. I kinda try not to worry too much when I’m writing informally sorta thing. Oh I don’t live in London I live in south yorkshire. Does it say I live in London?
I’ve written a poem as well. Believe it nor not I got the idea for this and just had to write it down. I am going to turn it into a prose novel one day. At the minute I’m taking a break from writing because three years on 157000 words is…a lot. Anyway here’s the poem for anyone interested. This is gonna be a pretty dark story though, as you can probably tell. Long in gloom I sat with her, crying, wailing my heart and soul.
For doom beat me to her – the beautiful, Elliva Tor, then I felt a hole, deep in my heart and soul.
And as I cradled her humiliated corpse, thinking what horrors befell her, suddenly, I felt an ominous presence sneaking, its fowl stench creeping.
Then my heart and soul started sinking and then I started thinking, what creature is this creaking, and what for does it loom before me and Elliva Tor?
“No creature,” it said. “Crinus the Mor.”
“Crinus the Mor?” I repeated. “Of terrible yore?”
And then Crinus said, “Yes, you know me sure.”
“Why, of course,” I said. “I have read your lore.”
“Oh…then you must know the horrors that I bore.”
“Yes…and still bear,” I snapped.
As he chuckled and clapped.
“And do you think I have come to ensnare?”
“Or perhaps I have simply stumbled upon your lair?”
“In witness of your dead friend…aww, so unfair.”
“Do not mock my friend.”
“It is not my intention to offend – only my hand I wish to lend.”
As I turned, I discerned.
Thick heavy rustling robes of rotten meat and flesh, fresh in my eyes now shot with threat.
As I stared with regret at his grotesque rotting skull-like face.
My fearful heart risking it all at its fastest pace.
His eyes like red moons glaring, transfixing me.
And now, in all this red terror, my deepest wish is to be free.
And then Crinus said, “A deal I offer thee.”
Then I thought, what deal hath he?
Then Crinus said, “Your word, for the kingdom of darkness.”
“My word, for the kingdom of darkness, where all lies heartless, surely you know I won’t accept such madness.”
“In darkness and madness, I promise gladness.”
“Never can my word remove this sadness.”
“Forever, your word, will bring you solace, for the kingdom of darkness, for horror, for terror, for evil, for I, Crinus the Mor, shall avenge my greatest enemy, the most beautiful, most kindest, altruist, Elliva Tor.”
And as I thought long and hard about his offer while he displayed infinite patience in total darkness, eventually, I gave my answer – or should I say, my word.
“With the death of Elliva Tor, the kingdom of darkness has already risen. I demand that you remove the mask from the world, this lie of light. I demand you convince the world how ugly sin has made it. I demand that at men’s despair, you reject forgiveness, you reject mercy. I give you my word. In the name of Elliva Tor, purge.”
And then Crinus placed his branch-like hand into his vile mouth, and pulled from the black abyss of his throat, a creature, so small in between his finger and thumb, so black, making such feeble unintelligible noises, flailing its many arms and legs.
“What is that ghastly thing?” I asked.
“A seed…and once planted, it will sing.”
“Sing? A song…but what will it bring?”
“Why…the kingdom of darkness, of course, and a new king.”
Then he placed this tiny restless creature on Elliva’s ghostly chest, and then it started eating through her breast, burrowing deep inside. Then, as Elliva’s corpse started convulsing, there was a harrowing scream.
What have I done, I thought.
It seemed as if the world was about to end, if not now, then certainly soon.
The ground shook violently.
The light died, its best it tried.
Darkness consuming all.
Then…the darkness gave form – from Elliva, come – the kingdom of infinite horrors.
shame on me–i assumed. i don’t use capital letters unless i’m writing “officially.”
Hey, can I send you a chapter of my latest book, I promise you’ll like it! ?
a whole story in one book? what a great way to take a break without taking a break from reading.
oh, i just looked it up…well, four is still okay,
@Jesse only 3. Seer, Demon and Warrior. All tied up in Warrior.
His Dragon Master series is also atrilogy.
So you’re ok with a septuplogy?
i had to look up that word. seven…they better be good.
oh, I made that up, but I guess the real word is septology. I think trilogy to quintet is ideal.
you were close.
Mark Lawrence.
Rachel Vincent Menagerie series is just 3 books and it’s really good
i am loving this conversation. everyone is literate, you can all spell and have no allergies to punctuation. i love my friends on other forums, but omg, what they do to the english language!
@Jesse look get used to it. i’m putting with one hand while walking my dog. no one has time for Grammar
You might try the Legend of Fergus books. I think there are six, but each book on its own is not that big. https://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Ardendale-Legend-Fergus-Book-ebook/dp/B00BGAVXPO/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1550071577&sr=8-8&keywords=legend+of+fergus
Agreed! 7+ books burns me out. I much prefer a Trilogy or Quartets.
If your looking for good fantasy Trilogies my two favorite authors (instant buys) are Trudi Canavan and Glenda Larke.
Happy Reading!! ✌️
i’m always happy when i’m reading!
Gemmell os good for a trilogy and multiple books on the same characters. Proper classic fantasy.
Acotar trilogy
okay, stop, stop!!! if my TBR shelf falls on me, it’ll squash me!
I prefer Long series, alltho i wish there were more interesting characters in some and not Just the hero and his sidekick the whole way. I listen to audiobooks while Running /walking tho so i require an endless supply =)
James Cavel – Taipan; Shogun etc. 3 4 books tops. Lots of Japanese culture.
way too much reality for my taste.
I write fantasy if not very well. How about a fat Hienline book. (rubs chin; well it is 3:11am)
i have never actually read him.
No I think you are right. Douglas Adams a triology in 5 parts?
https://www.amazon.com/author/dravidmills
Can you read a screenplay?
@Dravid HATE douglas adams; haven’t bothered with him for thirty years.
Clan of the Cavebear
Nope. Maybe the triolgy died?
you and i have totally different taste in books.
seems so. Catch you around.
Definitely with you! I usually stick to 3-4 books but also love it if there’s novella add ons.
I have a lot of story. Squeezing it into three books would require a lot of summary sequences. Sorry not sorry
hey, big stories are good, too. just not every single one.
10 books plus please love a long seires
The blood grail. Order of the sanguines
I’m reading The Stand at the minute by Stephen King and I’m three quarters through and I am enjoying it, but god, for such a big book, not much has happened in it. I’m hoping this last bit is where it all kicks off!
the stand is well worth a read. that was before he started all the child molestation/alcoholic crap that killed his talent.
The bear and the nightingale, by Katherine Arden, is the first book in a 3 book series. It is a very good series and of all the
books are out now. I’m just starting the last book today???
@Aleysha … one of my favorite series ever… just ???
Stephen King molested children? ?
Apparently he did drugs and alcohol to the point he wrote books he couldn’t remember writing ?
no, but he started addressing grownups with memories in some short stories. the alcoholism was also just a topic (probably), though that one would have a better chance of being based on fact, i would think.
He has a lot of money I know that – about 400 million ?
plenty to take him on one hell of a bender.
Whereabouts are you then? Are you in America?
yes, sentenced to the hell that is texas for an unknown crime and an equally unknown amount of time.
Oh…is Texas that bad? I’d like to visit it. I met a woman just this Christmas gone, I was working at a Christmas market at a place called Hull and this woman was from Texas and she was over here working top Computer Programming stuff by the sounds of it – she called it the heavy stuff, so there ya go. I like America though, been to Florida lotsa times, never done New York yet but it’s still hanging on the cards. Went to Vegas for my 21st, it was January, they closed the pools off and there weren’t that much of a buzz, not the hype I expected, but I still enjoyed it. I think the energy of Vegas definitely develops at night, but I also think that Vegas would a lot better in the summer because then it would be a lot busier, or so I think. I’ve stood in the grand canyon, that’s pretty unreal, got a good look at a funny-looking cactus, kinda wish I had taken a picture of it now, I said to myself I’d never forget it, it was an unusual-looking cactus, but yeah, America’s good. Texas is where the theme park Six Flags is.
It’s more than a trilogy at 5 books but the demon cycle is the best series I have read outside of kingkiller, GoT, stormlight archive, mistborn, assassin’s apprentice, and powder mage. Demon cycle might not be last either. That’s probably my top 7 fantasy series. And there is a 3 way tie on the bottom.
wow, you’ve covered more ground than i have and i’ve lived here all my life. i’ve managed to drive past vegas a few times. i hate texas. i hate the weather, the heat, the ridiculous humidity; my poor hair has never been the same. i came for a teaching job and a cost of living that really looked good on paper. the reality was disappointing. a lot of crap happened, and i ended up poor and disabled in a trailer park. best laid plans and all that. obviously that’s the very short version, but i’m not willing to hijack my own thread for long enough to subject anyone to the whole poor, pitiful story, lol!
I’ve got one even better! Battle Mage by Peter Flannery is just one book but god damn if it isn’t the most complete story I’ve ever read. And to be fair it’s thick as hell so technically could be 2 or 3 books.
Working on a trilogy 😀
Abhorsen series by garth nix, stephen aryan has two good series out, sara douglass has the crucible trilogy and the axis trilogy, trudi canavan has a couple and anne bishop’s tir alain series
Thick awesome standalone
Anne biship’s tir Alain (sp?) Trilogy
@Al love Anne Bishop! Best author ever, hands down!
Broken empire trilogy and red Queens war both by Mark Lawrence are solid trilogies and in the same universe
#ImTritingATrilogy, not sure if its any good for other people, but im having fun with it.