I have not read all the annoying epic fantasy series.

[snarp]

I'm trying to educate myself culturally. What are the classic annoying fantasy series that I need to have read, as a nerd?

Notice that I'm talking about annoying fantasy series - like, stuff where every single book has the same plot, or the cast of characters grows by six or seven people every book and every book gets longer because they all need to have stuff to do, or the last eight books have pretty much just been about the author's hat bondage fetish, or whatever.

I have read Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books and Raymond Feist's Magician books.

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[manifesta]

I second the Dragonlance series (though I can't bring myself to call it annoying, per se, because I love it too damn much) orrrr pretty much anything Forgotten Realms.

[mikkeneko]

Ooh, yes, Forgotten Realms, especially the Angsty Drow series. (I love Drizzt Do'Urden and always will, because he's my angsty noble dark elf boyfriend, but I don't try to pretend that he was a good character.)