What are your favorite trilogies?

The problem with Moorcock is he did write a load of crap and he admits it. In order to prop up New Worlds magazine he was pumping out formulaic S&S books every three days. He did work incredibly hard but those books are hardly great literature.

Books : The Lord of The Ring Series
Movies: The Godfather (Part 1 - 3)

The Lord of the Rings, of course; The Sherston trilogy: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress, by Siegfried Sassoon; the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars--these are my favorite trilogies in print. I was seriously unimpressed with The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy. Jackson took it upon himself to re-write the story. This was not just a case of cutting it down to fit into a cinematic vehicle. He seems to have decided that he could tell a better story than Tolkien did--such as Aragorn son of Arathorn not initially wishing to be king, Arwen Evenstar heading to the Grey Havens and then changing her mind and Elrond traveling to Dunharrow to convince Aragorn that he must travel the Paths of the Dead. Jackson's tinkering did nothing for the movies, confused the narrative and frequently made no sense.

I don't know that I've ever seen any other motion picture trilogies (the Pirates of the Caribbean movies were too incoherent to qualify.) I certainly can't think of any trilogy of musical recordings. That's probably a fault of age--I keep forgetting things.

The Lord of the Rings.

I have one favorite trilogy of books. It's a novels about Molloy by Samuel Beckett.

Molloy...yup, I came here to post that. I read Beckett on the edge of a cliff.

Three Novels by Samuel Beckett

Dr. Samuel Beckett from Quantum Leap wrote a trilogy?!

I liked the first two books in the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake but I lost interest in the third volume half way through.

Not sure if this counts as a trilogy even though it's released as one.



The first three Bernie Gunther books, there are others, and they're all v good, unfortunately Phillip Kerr died quite recently so there won't be any more.

This triptych is kind of cool, but I kind of got a thing for octopuses.

Tryptychs in art always fascinate me in the subject depicted and their three part form as painterly storytelling at its finest.

Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation

Sundiver
Startide Rising
The Uplift War

Brightness Reef
Infinity's Shore
Heaven's Reach

The Diamond Throne
The Ruby Knight
The Sapphire Rose

Domes of Fire
The Shining Ones
The Hidden City


Ride the Lightning
Master of Puppets
...And Justice for All

I agree, The Dark Elf by Salvatore is amazing

I really like Divergent trilogy. It's teen adult))

Oh yes! Totally agree with your list

In movies, the first Star Wars trilogy is the absolute best.

In music, anything Vivaldi wrote is tripartite. Hard to chose from them.

In paintings, Bosh's depiction of hell and heaven in triptic form (title?). I've seen it in Madrid years ago, hard not to love.

In literature, the little-known Buru Quartet by Indonesian writer Ananta Toer (though it's a tetralogy) is among the absolute best.

Books: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, nice teen fantasy
Movies: X-MEN (old one)

Nice? The books were brutal and sadistic!

What is nice about getting to like characters and then seeing them suffer and die, and having it happen over and over and over and over again until every single likable character is dead?

Except of course for the two lead characters. He had to come up with something worse than death for them.