A Land Far Away

Which, if any, should I read? I only read the Dragonlance series, when I was 15, and have stayed far away from Fantasy literature since then, seeing as it just never measures up to Tolkien. But, I would like to get more of a feel for Faerun from something other than Wikipedia. So where should I start? What's considered the 'canon' literature?

Honestly, most of them are pretty rubbish, but!

Spellfire (by Ed Greenwood) is really rather good. And it's got a dracholich.

Whatever happens, do not read the "Cleric Quintet". The dwarves in that series will destroy your dwarf brain, and ruin them for you, forever...

Rumple C wrote:Honestly, most of them are pretty rubbish

Oh I fully expect that!

MY Forgotten Realms favorites:

1) The Sembia Series -- all the way through the Erevis Cale books.

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/S ... the_Realms

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/T ... le_Trilogy

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2) War of the Spider Queen Series -

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/W ... ider_Queen


3) Icewind Dale -- I would read them in chronological order starting with Dark Elf Trilogy then the Icewind Dale Trilogy.

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/T ... lf_Trilogy

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/T ... le_Trilogy




there's a tidy bunch of 20 books or so for ya' .... enjoy!

Early Drizzt books and Elaine Cunningham's stuff seem pretty decent, but may not be everyone's cup of tea.

The first 3 drizzt are good if I remember right.
I also like the Harpers series, or at least the first three that I've read.
They're a bit childsih (but so is all of FR) but the nice thing is that each stands on its own right and each describes a different part of world.
(The anurach desert in the first, waterdeep and elf lands in the second, tahy in the 3ed)
Which helped me learn some general idea about the world.
Also sembia ones are good or so I've heard from a few other sourses.

Tolkien they are not.

ok now that that is out of the way and we acknowledge we are reading trash:

1. Darkwalker series for their descriptions of the Moonshaes Isles and inhabitants
2. The Salvatore mega series
3. The Sembia series (whatever that is called with the Shades and Mask etc.)

as an added bonus these books are so cheaply done you can find typos and grammar errors that passed uncorrected.

Rumple C wrote:Whatever happens, do not read the "Cleric Quintet". The dwarves in that series will destroy your dwarf brain, and ruin them for you, forever...

Um... I actually rather liked that one. It was a little quirky but...

... actually come to think of it, its the only one I've read.

So he's done DMing you and immediately you stopped giving him any respect.
Shame on you!

You should wait a couple week like I did.

Not FR but I read The Gord Series by E. Gary Gygax because they are by E. Gary Gygax !!!

GG actually wrote novels? Dare I ask if they were passable? Or did the protagonist get smashed into goo/blown up to bits/disintegrated to powder every other chapter?

Been a long time since I read them but I liked the Gord series.

Rumple C wrote:Whatever happens, do not read the "Cleric Quintet". The dwarves in that series will destroy your dwarf brain, and ruin them for you, forever...

Got it. Will avoid, OT's endorsement notwithstanding. I ordered the Dark Elf trilogy, I wonder what I'm in for...

high fantasy nice