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My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 11:16 pm
by dergon darkhelm
Ready to start Book V of "The Cleric Quintet" and after that I am out of FR based texts.
I've read Dark Elf and all the Drizzt stuff, Avatar, Spider Queen, & Elminster series.
What next?
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 2:06 am
by Ithildur
I'm not really widely read as far as FR books, as I tend to find them (and most fantasy literature) of less than stellar quality. However imo Elaine Cunningham's books are good. The cormyr Dragon trilogy was highly recommended by some, though it may be hard to find nowadays.
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 4:30 am
by oldgrayrogue
I highly recommend the Paul S. Kemp Twilight War and Erevis Cale Trilogy Series. Stumbled on these books and really enjoyed them. Very talented author IMO.
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 5:35 am
by Electryc
oldgrayrogue wrote:I highly recommend the Paul S. Kemp Twilight War and Erevis Cale Trilogy Series. Stumbled on these books and really enjoyed them. Very talented author IMO.
+1
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 5:47 am
by hollyfant
The first book of the Twilight War is actually downloadable from WotC:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/TwilightFalling.pdf
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 4:16 pm
by Burt
Next you can read some good books.
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 5:35 pm
by hollyfant
I hear the novelization of the Lord of the Rings movies is out.
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:01 pm
by AsteroidX
Starfist is a good action pack series not FRCS however.
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:09 pm
by Rotku
Burt wrote:Next you can read some good books.
Good plus fantasy very rarely mixes - a good fantasy book is, unfortunately, an exception not a rule.
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:12 pm
by johnlewismcleod
hollyfant wrote:I hear the novelization of the Lord of the Rings movies is out.
LMAO
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:18 pm
by KalevD
Here are a few series not mentioned above that I personally enjoyed:
- Year of Rogue Dragons trilogy
- Return of the Archwizards trilogy
- Scions of Arrabar trilogy
- Pools trilogy
- Finder's Stone trilogy
- Moonshae trilogy
A few of those may be hard to find these days though.
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 6:52 am
by Grand Fromage
Return of the Archwizards is okay until they decide the Shades are too powerful and make them all retarded in order to give the heroes a chance. The classic chaotic stupid tactic we all know and love.
If you want good fantasy you should be climbing out of the D&D book realm though. I've never read one that qualified, though the Planescape novel was decent.
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:38 am
by Holy_Rage
From non-FR material, I would go for Raymond Feist " the Riftwar series " and David Eddings' " Sparhawk ". Even Katharine Kerr's series could qualify for quality fantasy reading imho
Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:54 am
by Vendrin
Haunted Lands Trilogy by Richard Lee Byers. Deals with Thay, and the Lich Szazz Tam taking over it.
Novels are surprisingly good for FR books.
Unclean
Undead
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Re: My next Forgotten Realms reading material
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:16 am
by ElCadaver