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Need help with Forgotten Realms novels

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by theZakon, Jul 30, 2003.

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    [​IMG] I've recently started reading and collecting Forgotten Realms novels. So far I've collected all the novels written by R.A. Salvatore and Elaine Cunningham. I'm planning to collect all the novels by Greenwood as well.
    My question is which books you recommend I should read after those ones. I'd like to collect as much FR novels as I can but don't know in which order I should read them, and is there any order in which I should. So if you have any suggestions and recommendations I would be very grateful.
     
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    [​IMG] If you make a search for "Forgotten Realms" in this forum you should get more than a dozen hits, asking more or less the same question as you. There's no set order to read FR novels in, but you're safe enough if you start with Salvatore's Drizzt books or Greenwood's Elminster books. (Which is what I did.)

    But if I was starting again today, I'd read the Avatar Series before anything else. They give you more background info than any other books. And they're fun to read too. Next would be the Sembia books... and apart from that, it's really up to you.

    The books are listed at http://www.sorcerers.net/Books/index_fr2.php
     
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    I started with Pool of Radiance, which actually was a pretty good read. Then came the Elminster series, which I enjoyed immensely. But it was The Avatar Trilogy that provided the best FR history lesson one could ask for....lots of questions were answered as to timing, background, who the gods were, etc.--more or less basic stuff. And nothing can beat the scene of the 100 foot all-black avatar of Bane striding across the sea of Dragon Reach, making waves large enough to topple boats, to battle with the 100 ft avatar of Torm on the cliffs outside the city of Tantras. One of the BEST scenes ever in the whole FR collection. :thumb:
     
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    I'm a big fan of the Cormyr trilogy - nothing like a little bit of Fantasy that reads like Historical Fiction.

    Good stuff.
     
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    id get he moonshae trilogy, the harpers has some nice books, definitley go for elminster books, druidhome is a nice follow up to the moonshae, maztican isnt bad either. The demon war series isnt forgotten realms but its salvatore so i reccoment it, and the gord the rouge series isnt bad, its old and its greyhawk but i definitly recomend all but the last book of the series, as it is ridiculous with the characters slaying thousands upon thousands of demons in a single battle.
     
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    [​IMG] Moonshae, Harpers, Druidhome etc. series are all out of print, so your suggestions are somewhat dated. What's still there of Harpers got renamed and re-released under a different series name. So check SP for what is out there now. The listing there is current.
     
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    If you can find it, read the Shadow Stone by Richard Baker. Great stuff.
     
    Yerril, Aug 13, 2003
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