Committing Trilogy--Committing to Trilogy.

Not really.


They seem to be mainly fantasy and SF, and I do not generally read from those genres...haven't for years.

I certainly committed to, and loved, Lord of The Rings when I was a kid...


I sometimes read a series of detective novels for a bit.


I do love it when I can find a really chubby book that I love, though! Although I tend to end up reading several other books at the same time.

Dlowan--

Here in the states we have mainstream cozies--not murders, but book after book exploring characters and relationships in a small geographic area--usually rural and isolated.

I'm old enough to remember a Family Friend fulminating about children wasting time reading series adventure stories while she read Carter Dickson and Ellery Queen backward and forward.

Probably the first multi-volume work that I read was the Iliad, followed by the Odyssey. I learned that there was something immensely satisfying about holding a BIG book and committing to it. That was my initiation and it's all Homer's fault.

I know I've read many multi-volume works that I'd be ashamed to admit to, but there are also many excellent ones. Looking at my bookshelves, I see:

Robertson Davies -- The Deptford Trilogy
Lawrence Durrell -- The Alexandria Quartet
Robert Graves -- I, Claudius and Claudius the God (ok, not quite a trilogy)
Winston Graham -- something like 8 or 9 Poldark novels
Colleen McCullough -- the series on the demise of the Roman republic that starts with The First Man in Rome and ends with The October Horse
Ellis Peters/Edith Pargeter -- Brother Cadfael mysteries and others
Dorothy Dunnett -- the Lymond series and the Niccolo series

and when I need a laugh, my guilty pleasure ~

Lindsey Davis -- the Falco detective series

looks like I'm addicted to 'em.

Tico--

Having access to a variety of alternate arenas of reality is a great comfort. You can count on a certain amount of stablity from a good fictional universe.

I really like a series if it's a good'un-- which means, not most fantasy series. There is just so much garbage in the sci/fi fantasy arena. I don't know when the last time I read a series or trilogy aimed at adults was, just because they're almost always fantasy. I could count on one hand the adult series I've read: Lord of the Rings, the Amber books by Zelazny, Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. That's about it!

I read lots of series in young adult fantasy, though; I find there is a lot more quality writing in the fantasy genre for that age group. I pretend I read them because of my interest in working in that field, but who am I kidding? I read them because I love 'em.

I'm just about to re-read the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander; some of my favorite books, ever. For me, nothing beats a good series; I love spending the extra time with characters that I really care about.

I enthusiastically read the first three Harry Potter novels, but struggled to finish the fourth. Did not pick up the rest at all.

My favorite trilogies are by Henry Miller: The Rosy Crucifixion and the Tropics (Cancer, Capricorn, Black Spring).

Beyond that, not much.

Cyphercat--

I'm also a closet Young Adult.

Edgar--

Odd that so many of my favorite people, in and out of cyberspace, eschew fantasy. The world is a complicated place.

When young, I loved Heinlien, whom I no longer think a great deal of, and Lester Del Ray, Ray Bradbury, Phil Jose Farmer, and others of that ilk. Other kinds of fantasy, not so much. I never read Lord of the Rings. I did watch the first film of the trilogy, but could not get into the others.

Hmm I think the last trilogies I've read were The Foundation Trilogy (Isaac Asimov) and Lord of the Rings (Tolkein -- I also reread The Hobbit then, too, so it was, what, a Quadrilogy?).

Jalna, Barchester Chronicles, Forsythe Saga ... those are my kind of series.

I used to dive deep into the worlds of fantasy and fancy. Not so much lately.

Perhaps I'll go back to them someday.

Augustus Hare in Rome, volume I and II?


Well, I follow and have followed some writers.

I am not interested in fantasy, indeed it is a clue to me to know that...

I'm not interested in books with a magical base

or romance...

not that I am all so superior, as I'm a pawn, a pawn, a pawn of a girl, re crime thrillers. But even then I'm picky. I like pretty taut writing. I don't like cute mysteries, crime thriller series based on a clever caterer, or person with cats. No, I like the old hard boiled stuff. The Raven series, so sad I gave them away...

Well, not only hard boiled, though I tend to like the Soho Crime Press books.

Yes, I've read Lindsay Davis and others. I will read anything at all, almost, that has italy in it, or pre-italy - if I can get my hands on the book relative to my wallet. After twenty years of that I can pass some books up, but they all, always, make me at least blink.
I once had a collection of mysteries/crime books set in Italy, many of them but not every single one, about art...

Kissed them goodby on my last move.

Edgar--

You're obviously a solid science fiction man. For light reading you might see whether the library has John Scalzi's duet: Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigade. Scalzi's hero is our age.

Jespah--

LOTR is a trilogy with a pre-written prequel.

ehBeth--

Obviously, once you hit the Old Folks Home you're going to be a busy-busy biddy.

Osso--

Lately there has been a spate of fantasy novels set in medieval and Renaisance Italy. The only title I can think of right now is The Golden Key (Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson and Kate Elliot).

The trilogy I'm trying to remember takes place in good part in a well-run, aristocratic kitchen and includes a description of carving a roast with one hand while the other hand holds it aloft and the slices plop down on the platter in an attractive arrangement.

Currently I'm halfway through the third volume of Glenda Larke's Isles of Glory set in an unspecified Renaissance culture.