BlueDev, if I'm not mistaken, that series has concluded. It's just a trilogy and that last part is out in paperback, even.
TW, my brother and I snuck over to the house of a friend who had cable when we were in high school to watch A Clockwork Orange on HBO. Very good, powerful movie/book that presents some great dilemmas.
And can you tell me a little bit about the books you mentioned?
trina, my school never studied much in the way of real classics; I got a lot of my best reading material from my brother's school (he went to a public school, I went to a private one). He read Lord of the Flies in class (probably 11th grade), I read his copy of it later that year. Along with Catcher in the Rye. Which I failed to mention (though I certainly should have included it) because I don't own a copy.
SSGG, yes, I certainly am a fan of SF. There are a lot more SF authors that I also follow regularly but who just weren't engaging enough to make the "short list." Charles Sheffield, Robert Forward, Dave Duncan, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Jack Chalker, Greg Bear, David Brin, Harry Harrison, etc. I also read a whole lot of Asimov and Heinlein when I was younger, but again I didn't include them because they're not in my library. (I got them from the public library before I started my own collection.)
Although, now that I'm thinking of it, there is one more author I can't believe I forgot to mention: Patricia McKillip. Her best-known series is The Riddle-Master of Hed, which is certainly a classic trilogy, but all of her work is somehow simultaneously dense and ethereal, like having your brain wrapped in a magical fog through which phantasms and wonders loom and roam. She writes mostly straight fantasy. It's absolutely brilliant; for most of a book, you are completely immersed in what's going on without understanding more than about a quarter of it. Finally, though, everything falls beautifully into place as the key underlying elements are revealed.
Cacto, those are great additions to the list. Read them both, loved them both.
