If fantasy is included, one series that left me spellbound, enwrapt in delicious literary bondage, was The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson.
10 books to tell the tale; it is not for the commitment-phobic ;)
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson.
I’ve ALL of them
If you want to talk commitment and fantasy in the same breath, there’s always Wheel of Time...just started book 8 last night.
I take it you are another one of us few who know much more about leprosy than we ever wanted to.