Two favorites, one for legacy and one for 'would read again'
Harry potter series. Wouldn't read it again and again. Maybe once every few years. But I like this series as it's the one that got me into
liking to read. I remember finding a battered book on my class bookshelf: Harry potter and the sorcerers stone. Since it was a dedicated period of reading I was like 'might as well otherwise the teacher is going to 'have a talk' about it again. Something no kid actually likes and if intelligent enough to figure how to avoid will do so by nearly any means. So I sat down and began reading rather quickly, as per habit. Now I want to say that my entire problem with reading was the fact that I started as a speed reader and would be both annoyed and somewhat afraid at becoming just like the rest of the kids who read. like. robots. by. talking. like. every. word. was. a. sentience. And that teachers constantly tried to force me to read outloud which for the reason mentioned before I hated. So after reading it the first time I was offered to go see a movie by a relative. I think it was my aunt. The one my immediate family can no longer stand(shame ): ). I watched the movie and enjoyed it... although I noted quickly the discrepancies between book and movie. So going back I read it again with the intent on finding the discrepancies. This lead to me deciding on my own 'books are better then video' and I have never looked back since. For that reason alone, I have enjoyed years of reading since. But I still wont read outloud. I hate it.
The second series I truly enjoyed was the dragonlance series. And it's various spinoffs. I haven't delt with them all but I have enjoyed those I have and if I could find the books would read again. I first found one on my mothers shelve of random books. I believe there was a picture of a blue dragon with it's black haired woman rider nearby... but I am not sure if that is the one. I honestly don't remember. Do know however that kang's regiment(?) spinoff was a highlight of mine. Didn't read the entire thing due to life but did enjoy it!
While I won't recommend harry potter to anyone; It's tired and done a dozen times now by every relative you know(probably) I will the dragonlance series. It is good. That is all there is to say.
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Hopefully automerge will catch this. If not someone else probably posted in meantime. Not editing directly due to intended size of 'edit'. If automerge misses it: Sorry
I wanted to add that one of the reasons the dragonlance series has some high regard is it made up my mind on what fantasy genre should be. I have come to reason that not all knights should be good, not all dragons are bad, that magical beasts can be reasoned with far better then other authors tend to allow, and that thieves are
ing awesome. Seriously.
ing. Awesome.
I liked the entire universe being painted by many good authors. There were many arcs and characters. When I would finish a book and feel that usual disappointment that comes from wishing the book kept going I could sate that with another book. When it comes to stuff like harry potter I found myself going years to wait.
Hmm... smaller then I thought it'd be. Oh well. Maybe I'll throw in that I hated the HP movies not putting in WHY Ron was afraid of spiders? How did you miss that?!