Good successful pastime

The trilogy is a relaxing Fantasy reading; a lot of humor, a little heartache in a beautifully devised and self-part scene. It does not come to the sprawling worlds and plots of "Lord of the Rings" or "Harry Potter" approach, but can be read very well and has "Well, a chapter les' I still ..." - factor. I at least some of the characters was very sympathetic, wanted to know how to go for it and could therefore put the books sometimes hard out of his hand.
The English version of the book is easy to understand (preferable in my view, the German translation) without komplziertes vocabulary.