Do you read series? Do you ever get bored of them?

I am going to take this opoprtunity to rant for just a moment if you all don't mind.

I read lots of series (and will be looking up some from here that I haven't read) but one of my guilty pleasures is I read "wolves and vampire" series on my Kindle - the kind that are not really mainstream, and while they do get published as proper books, erally are aimed at Kindle readers. And increasingly, those series are not a series of individual books, they are CHAPTERS in an overall story. I just finished one where the so-called "book" ends with the heroine heading off to start exacting revenge. Ie, it's just the end of a chapter. In fact, it took me a few minutes to realise it was the end of the book. At first I thought there was something wrong with my kindle.

It infuriates me so much I'm unlikely now to carry on purchasing the series. Is it just me?

A second vote for John Connolly's Charlie Parker series.

CJ Sansom - Shardlake series
Peter Robinson - Alan Banks series
Susan Hill - Simon Serrailler series
John Harvey - Frank Elder series and Grayson and Walker series (also his Resnick novels - although I prefer his others)
Denise Mina - Garnethill trilogy (excellent series, with an interesting female protagonist)
Peter May - Lewis Trilogy - also very good.
Simon Beckett - David Hunter series
Elly Griffiths - Ruth Galloway series

these are all crime/mystery novels I have enjoyed - with the protagonist's (sometimes a policeman, sometimes a forensic scientist, etc) story developing through out the series.

I used to. I loved The No1 Ladies' Detective Agency (which prompted me to find out how apostrophes worked as I could never remember where exactly it was in the title ) and read until The Double Comfort Safari Club, then stopped. My friend gave me the first one for my 11th birthday and I thought it looked boring, but gave it a chance and got absolutely hooked and reread it so many times. So did my dad. He'd read them after me and we'd talk about them.

Now if I read series it's stuff like the Babysitters Club, Harry Potter, Drina, Sweet Valley Twins....but even then I get into the individual books much more, not so much the series. I used to reread and reread....now I don't. I sort of miss it but think I've grown out of it a bit.

And The Witching Hour! Bloody brilliant book

Diana Gabaldon voyager series, I re read these all the time, they are my comfort books

Penny Vincenzi's 3 book saga about the Lytton family

The Hunger Games

Harry potter

Peter not pere sorry!

I like Michael Connelly s Bosch books. Quite like pere robinsons series can't remember the detectives name. Love a few fantasy series's if you read that genre?

Dune (sci-fi) I love all 6 books but the first 2 are especially brilliant (I haven't bothered with the "prequels" written by Frank Herbert's son after his death)

Hyperion (sci-fi) First 2 are exceptional, the next 2 are merely good.

Interview With the Vampire series by Anne Rice - I read & loved the first 3-4. 5 & 6 were OK iirfc. The rest wasn't good.

The Witching Hour (supernatural, ghost, witches) again by Anne Rice - First 2 books are great, the next two not so much

Yes, I see a pattern there but not sure what it means

I really enjoyed the first 3 novels by Patricia Cornwell, then I got bored.

I love Maigret, is that considered a series? Brilliant reading anyway.

I love the Charlie Parker novels by John Connolly.

I read young adult series, eg Harry Potter, the Michael Grant 'Gone' series, various others (my favourite is the one beginning Across The Nightingale Floor by Leann Hearne).

Love The Lord of the Rings

Like CJ Sansom's Shardlake series

Stephen King's The Dark Tower series is brilliant, if you're up to fantasy.