I dislike series which are effectively short stories and which could (and probably should) be contained as one novel. So if Book 1 has only 100 pages... I'm not touching it. I like series which only have three or four (or less)... LoTR for example, and Stephen Baxter's "Northland" series. The Harry Potter series is outside that, it stands on its own. There are also a couple of series from Bob Mayer which went on... and on... and on... and I still don't know if I finished them all.
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