Any long tedious series worth reading?

I've stayed away from most series that go on indefinitely, but are there any worth trudging through?  This includes licensed drivel such as D&D, Battletech, Shadowrun, MTG, Battlemage, Warhammer, Dr Who, Xena, Buffy, Marvel or DC based novels, Star Trek, Star Wars, and any series which exists to promote future sequels (including Harry Potter, Wheel of Time, etc).

Robert Rankin's Brentworth trilogy seems to go on firever but continues to be fucking brilliant.

The complete Nietzsche collection.

I started out with Zarathustra.  Is there a better one to start with?

I thought Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin was pretty good.

Does Tom Clancy have any redeeming value?

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>>1

why don't you try reading something more than 50 years old?

I have.  That's why I was curious about modern books.

The Diskworld books are pretty freakin awesome.

Bujold's "Vorkosiagan Saga" seems dedicated to following its main character through his entire life, beginning with a decade or so before his birth (two novels before Miles is even born), and ten others covering his actual life.  And they're all really good too, two Hugo award winners in there.

>>10 wins internets. Four of them.

Anything by James Clavell.  Basically white boys in Asian countries.

the divine comedy, the chaucer collection, and the history of middle earth (starts with the book of lost tales, ends when i have no idea)

The Song of ICe and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.  Beyond the best series ever written.

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If a series is tedious, it's not worth reading.

Reading is for enjoyment and enlightenment. If it's a chore, you're doing it wrong.

I've been reading "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin lately, and I like it very much. 4 have been published, 3 more planned.
1. A Game of Thrones
2. A Clash of Kings
3. A Storm of Swords
4. A Feast for Crows
5. A Dance with Dragons (expected later this year).
in paperback, each of these is ~1000 pages. Should keep you busy for some time...

Tad Williams "Otherland" series is very good... uses a setting similar to William Gibson's stories.  His fantasy-based series is also pretty good.  They're both 5 books each, I think? 

>>19
The Otherland series is four books.

The Sword of Truth novels come highly recommended from my side as well

Glen Cook's Black Company is worth following. Sane with the Amber books.

>>20

The Sword of Truth was ok in junior high, then when I grew older I realized how awful it was - creepy randian propaganda at its worse. AVOID.

>>21

Even so that doesn't make the books a worse read. In my opinion it's alright to read something even though you don't really care about the message. The action is good, the characters are solid and, as I also mentioned in another thread here, any book that has a fifty page torture scene of the protagonist deserves to be read.

Malazan Book of the Fallen.
It's not as boring and cliched as "A Song of Ice and Fire" and it's an easier read imho.

you should read the series of "Amber" written by Roger Zelazny

You should write out the word poo and then read it lol.

The bible. Boring and preachy, but you sound clever quoting it.

The Princes of Amber was decent, also check out The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.

Discworld & The Dark Tower

#27 speaks troof.  The "Thomas Covenant" series is about 2400 pages and rather epic.  Interesting enough, it managed to take a rather wrung-out Tolkien style of story not make it mind-numbing like  Shannara and the rest of the poseurs.

I used to re-read my TC books each year in my early 20s, but by 25 I had burned out on it and will never touch the story (or the author) again.  I think that I've grown beyond it.

As for another series, if you're SciFi inclined, naturally I recommend all the original "Dune" books.  If you finish those, then you might try the Dune prelude books (in two series) published by his son and that fucking hack Kevin Anderson.  I only read those since I loved the milieu, so was able to tolerate the assrape that Anderson achieved with the milieu.  The latest "Dune" book follows the last of the original series, and although somewhat interesting and ongoing, the Anderson Effect is there and still annoying.

Really, I can't go on enough about the Hacklord Anderson.  He took a fairly unique Dune universe and turned it into formula ... a hackfiction.  Obviously he gets paid by the book series, not by the book, so he fills each book nice and fat with standard drivel that you'd find in mainstream droneliterature.  Somebody, please just shoot the man.

Thomas Covenant is pure emo, in my opinion.

The beginning was great. A leper? Novel idea!

Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there.

Saga of seven suns is good

Sword of Truth series has about 10 or 11 books out, last and final installment comes out this fall.  It's a very good series, worth checking out.

>>32
Sword of Truth is shit.

Any of Matthew Reilly's books

"A Prince of Darkness" by R. Scott Bakker, is a good trilogy, with another set in the same world starting up, witht he first being released next year sometime.  (It is a good read, for the author's first real set of novels, and should only get better from here.)

>>35
the fuck?
it's either "the prince of nothing" for the series name or "the darkness that comes before" for the first novel.
also, shitty characters. but if you can ignore that, it's good.

the 9-10 or so elric books are totally worth your time

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#37 has it right; the original Elric books are a bit of a slog, but the storyline (from Elric's carefree beginning in Melnibone, to his end at the point of Stormbringer) is rich with destinies and dimly seen machinations of the gods.