The best Fantasy book series

[Bralor]

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan has to be among the best Fantasy books ever!!!

[Psi Kiya Trist]

why are we talking about books in the temple?

[Z E R O]

Mod could move this?

[Bralor]

The way i saw it, We have been talking about anything ranging from teachers to jokes to weather to video games and so on. i didnt see any reason why i couldnt talk about books too... but if i posted this in the wrong place, simply tell me.

[Zeratul]

wheel of time isnt sci-fi... its fantasy... big difference...

[Bralor]

Yea my bad, I fixed it.

[Magni]

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King...so epic.

[Z E R O]

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King...so epic.

Agreed.

[Zeratul]

too cursed many to set one single best series...

but a few of superior quality are:
all three series by david & Leigh Eddings (elenium/tamuli, Belgariad/Malloreon, Younger gods...)
The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind

[Sammael]

The wheel of time brilliant series, love it.

[solmyr]

gotta be feist... the midkemia books (all bloody 15 or so!!!)

Pug of crydee aka milamber is the best hero ever lol

[Zeratul]

those were good books yes... we just never finished reading them... (we only had access to poor-quality ebook versions of the last several...)

[Mordack]

Like hell of the Wheel of Time the best fantasy series ever.

'A Song of Ice and Fire' all the way.

[Caprila]

To pick just one

WoT was very good, but especially in the later books things seemed to .. waffle. I also don't think it has the long term re-readability to be classed as 'best fantasy series ever'

Sword of Truth.. is nice for what it is. From the 5 or so I've read so far.. each seems to be pretty similar to last one. Currently wondering if I want to watch the tv show

Song of Fire & Ice, I liked very much. Great series, one of the only ones that I didn't find predictable. Same as the original Donaldson novels, thoroughly original.

Best ever though? For me would likely go to something more along the lines of LoTR.

[Zeratul]

Sword of Truth.. is nice for what it is. From the 5 or so I've read so far.. each seems to be pretty similar to last one. Currently wondering if I want to watch the tv show

the books get very different after the first few... (for one, he starts learning things...)

as for the TV show... its quite good... not too much adaption decay... the story is quite different at first, but by the end of the first season, it has remedied a lot of the decay created in the first few episodes...
one reason for this is, we think, that terry goodkind is closely involved in its creation...
its worth watching...

anyways, back to topic...
LotR isnt on the scale... its too much of a base building block for it all... or maybe the fulcrum of the scale all else is measured upon...