What is the best Trilogy or Quartet?

I have to go with The Chronicles of Narnia or LOTR

Although, I really like Douglas Adams, I just haven't read the Hitchhiker's series yet. I may have to one of these days.

"Commedia," Dante.

As with guitars, there's alot of wanna-be's but only one Martin.

Strictly my opinion, of course.

Martins are the best.

"Alright . . . how do I pronounce your name again. . .?"

"Martin . . . "

"Right, Martin."

Blue jam?

What about Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials?

Terrific! But incredibly sad :( I really wanted Lyra and Will to get to stay together at the end. I love the books but I always seem to end up crying through at least half of the trilogy.

OK, I may have been a little hasty, not to mention pretentious, in my earlier post. Not having read all of the trilogies, who am I to say?

And while C.F. Martin’s rosewood Dreadnoughts are superb, there are many fine acoustic guitars out there.

Of course where amplification is required the field is wide open. Leo Fender makes a wonderful machine.

“Play it fast and play it hard and pedal - pedal - pedal.”
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

hmm... i was just wondering... are there any trillogies for horror novels?? something like stephen king's stuff... just wondering...

King has got his "Dark Tower" series. I havn't read it yet, but I hear that its among his best works. Right now there are 5 books published, the series ends at seven. Other than that King has several settings that he often returns to, and there are often references to other stories that took place in those settings, but all of his other novels stand alone. Except "Black House". Thats a sequal to the Talisman. Than there's Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. I think there are 7 or 8 of them, but I may be mistaken. I wish I could tell you more, but I'm not really into horror. Just King (which I don't really consider 'horror' anyways).

The "Earthsea Trilogy" by Ursula LeGuin is terrific. And along the way it too became a quartet.

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..Leo Fender makes a wonderful machine.

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Can stories like Jules Verne's be considered as trilogy too? I'm talking about The Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 days and that Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea

I mean the theme is simliar I suppose.

I guess you could make that arguement, but you would have to do some pretty heavy argueing. I think a true trilogy needs to carry on the story from book to book. Those three are all different stories.

i cannot neglect to mention the "Outlander" series, by Diana Gabaldon....there are more than three, in fact the series is currently up to number five with the publication of "The Fiery Cross" and i believe there is another book just out with an offshoot story on some of the characters from the original tale, told from a different angle. unfortunately i havent gotten my hands on this one yet.
anyhow, i just felt that this series needed mention.

Lord of the Rings

you're all going to hate me soon, I'm such a Fantasy Freak ;)