I'm starting slowly this year - I've been spending my free time so far more on watching the huge pile of DVDs that are pending, rather than reading. But I have read:

The Earthsea Quartet - Ursula Le Guin

Despite developing an interest in SFantasy from an early age, I'd never read these. Then, over Christmas I found myself watching HBO's Earthsea. It was fairly mediocre, but it got me interested enough in the characters and world to go buy this four books in one edition.

Sadly, it turned out that the TV adaptation had very little in common with the novels and the parts which aren't in the books, were the parts which interested me.

#7 A Wizard of Earthsea
#8 The Tombs of Atuan
#9 The Furthest Shore
#10 Tehanu

Some were more interesting to me than others, but the writing style in all of them was lacking for me. It needed more drama, more passion in telling the story and I was bored quite a bit of the time, sadly.

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Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.

The Musketeers