I am so mad!!! I started reading a book and found out it was the first part of a trilogy. Great, I thought.  I finished book 1 and nipped to tesco and bought book 2 only to find out book 3 doens't come out till........May 2013!!!! ARGH!!! I absolutely NEED to see what happens next.  I have survived all summer waiting for the last of the Twilight films and I am nearly there(out in a couple of weeks) but I don't think I can keep this up!! I am so MAD! I am going to wish away the next few months till the last one is out.  I need to stop reading and get a life!

Hahaha I started reading a trilogy in the late 90s which became a 6 parter which became 9 which became 12, currently 13 books have been published I think maybe 14 now, the original author has died and I no longer even remember the first books (and if I am honest I am not that bothered for how it ends any more)

Roxy, would that be the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan? I started reading them then found that there were more, then more, then even more ;-) Can't wait for the last one.

I have a different series, or rather I have books 1,2,3 and 6 but can't find books 4 and 5. It's driving me mad.

lol it is indeed - I read 2 trilogies by Ian Irvine that ended up being 4 books each, and I stopped reading a JV Jones series when I got to then end of book 2 had to wait twice as long as orginally advertised for book 3 and it still was not finished - yet another trilogy! You can't get them from the library (partly as they never have them in) as by the time the series is finished you would have forgotten the first book and it is rather expensive to buy even a set of paper back books - I reckon orbit must have had hundreds out of me over the years. 
What series are you looking for?

A series by George RR Martin. A Song of Ice and Fire, but I can't get in to it really. I just hate not having a full series.

The final book of the Wheel of Time comes out on January 8th. I'll be glad to see the end of that series too ;-) the last couple have been co-written and aren't quite as good. Just can't put my finger on it. Again, I want the whole series :-)

Look on ebay LindyLou, they are on there :-)

I want new ones that match my books ;-)

It will have to wait until after December now, all monies have to go towards that awful :-) time of year.

There are new and used ones, worth a look (after the dreaded season of course :-P) :-)

I have read a bit of those but was never all that struck - I have a whole wall of books at home so I thought it might have been something I could help out with lol!  I have knife of dreams but the whole thing has just got too convoluted for me to even care how it ends anymore - there were whole new major plotlines being brought in so late - Elayne with her making terangreal and the like I just got totally fed up with it.

Ah, so you don't know that she is now Amyrlin to them all? And that Elaine was 'kidnapped' by the Seanchan??

It was getting a bit too much, but I went back and reread the earlier ones and it started to make more sense. I think it is one of those series that you have to read and re-read quite a few times to get the best out of it.

Most of my books are packed away just now. My daughter keeps inheriting things from her relatives, and my son has moved back in, so there just isn't room for my books and things :-( I need a shed outside so I can have some time to myself lol

Yes, No but good!  I have reread enough that I have a good idea what was going on - pretty sure I could pick up even the new ones and follow them but I just got bored, bored of the perrin faile berelain thing, bored of the hunting for faile everyone thinks he is doing B thing, bored of the Oh I love three women thing, bored of the I have my sister rubbish, bored of the birgitte thing bored of slayer.....

hmm, it did go on a bit, didn't it.

I just hate to leave a series unread.

Another series I like, though they can be read as separate stories, is the Dragons of Pern series, written by Anne McCaffrey. The one written by her son Todd, though, aren't anywhere near as good.

I know how you feel, I have several series on the go at the moment waiting for the author to write more books for me! I'm a terrible bookworm and my hubby doesn't help by constantly buying me new books to see if I like them, and they're invariably the first of a part written series! Very nice to find new books, but I hate not knowing how it ends!

> Dragons of Pern series, written by Anne McCaffrey.

Loved these and wish they would make them into films.  With the CGI now they would look great (loved Avatar)

They did make one and Anne McCaffrey was so disgusted she said never again. However, I believe she agreed to them being made last year, shortly before she died, so we may see them soon. :-)

any idea who made it and when, think technology has advanced.

they would really need to start with the one that is the prequel to it all that shows them arriving on the planet (I luckily read that one first) before first thread fall.

Oh I like the Pern books but I read them so quickly!  I haven't read the prequel though - not sure I want to know how it all began really lol.  Love fantasy generally but I have to admit I like something I can get my teeth into a bit, I can get through Pern books in under a day!

I've got pretty well all the Pern books,I agree that the ones written by Todd are not nearly as good - last one - 'Sky Dragons' is a complete ***-up, very dis-jointed and not really any proper story line! :-(

if you like them have you read her Pegasus books (3) and 'Tower and the Hive' series (5 or 6) They are on a par with the Pern books.:-D :-D

Got them all ;-) The Killishandra Series is good too.(Crystal Singer) She was one lady who knew how to write. Her son, on the other hand, well, I must admit I have issues with his books. For a start when you go 'between' you are supposed to lose all sensations, so how could Fiona be found? There are other things too, but not suitable for putting up on here. I don't know if I will be reading any more of his books.

> A series by George RR Martin. A Song of Ice and Fire, but I can't get in to it really. I just hate not having a full series.

My all time favourite books, but he sure does make his fans wait.
I used to read the Pern books ( and Wheels of Time ) but got bored with them, I started finding them rather clunky.

I started reading a trilogy recently, the last one ( book 2 ) was published, I think, in 2011, the third one isn't even finished yet !, I'm desperate to know what happens. Despite that, i'd recommend them to anyone who enjoys fantasy fiction. I've suggested them to a few people, I think so far, everyone's loved them. Name of The Wind is the first one, by Patrick Rothfuss.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me.

So begins the tale of Kvothe--from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But The Name of the Wind is so much more--for the story it tells reveals the truth behind Kvothe's legend.

Sounds like my sort of story.

I also like the Shannara stories by Terry Brooks.

Oh yes I've just read those - can't wait to see what happens next!