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mnb128
Learned Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 24 Mar 2009 : 13:44:35
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Originally posted by scererar
The wife picked up Unholy for me this afternoon, while I was at work. I have a wonderful wife
Does anyone know where the short story that was just released on WOTC get placed within the trilogy?
There was a little discussion about this a little while back. Here's the link.
http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12237
To quote The Red Walker from that discussion, "It happens before the trilogy, and shows some backstory for a major player in all three novels."
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 24 Mar 2009 : 14:42:20
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Originally posted by scererar
Does anyone know where the short story that was just released on WOTC get placed within the trilogy?
Bareris also appears in a short story in "Realms of War". It is a small scouting story set shortly after Book 1 "Unclean". It does not provide additional information to the Haunted Lands Trilogy though. |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 26 Mar 2009 : 08:08:01
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Finished Swords of Dragonfire. Great book, horrible cover. It made me want to go reread older Realms books again. But that can wait, back to Lin Carter ( a guilty pleasure of mine) and Kuttner.
PS. Am I the only one bothered by the term "Bullyblades"? |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 26 Mar 2009 : 15:27:35
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Originally posted by Jorkens
Finished Swords of Dragonfire. Great book, horrible cover.
Have to admit I really liked that cover.
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PS. Am I the only one bothered by the term "Bullyblades"?
Again, I have to admit that term didn't bother me. |
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mnb128
Learned Scribe
USA
130 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2009 : 01:04:21
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| Finished Into the Void and wasn't overly impressed. Less than a third of the book took place in the Realms. Much of the book plodded along very slowly with little action. However, I do think the finally was great. Now I've started The Maelstrom's Eye. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 28 Mar 2009 : 02:21:28
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Actually, Into the Void remains one of my favourites from the original SPELLJAMMER novels. But I think that mainly has to do with the fact that when I first read it [back when it was originally released], we still didn't know all that much about Nimbral. So it was kinda neat at the time to be reading about the place.
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Baldwin Stonewood
Acolyte
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Posted - 29 Mar 2009 : 16:37:56
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| I just finished Elaine Cunningham's Starlight and Shadows trilogy and I really enjoyed it. Especially the first two novels. |
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
713 Posts |
Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 00:18:49
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I have read quite a bunch of FR novels so far, but all "post-TSR".
There have been some rather bad novels like "City of splendors", several average ones but also lots of really good stuff that one would not normally expect from fantasy novels that are being sold at 6 dollars!
My first FR book was The Black Bouquet. Good one and I just found out recently, that it is set in the Border Kingdoms.
I did not hook up much with Salvatore's style that lacks atmospheric and detailed settings descriptions but liked Elaine Cunningham's Kings and Councelors Trilogy and also Song and Swords books.
Excellent single books where City of Ravens and Shadow's Wittness.
I loved all series around Erevis Cale, absolut awesome fantasy literature. Paul S. Kemp is a master at work and I can't wait for his Cycle of Night Trilogy to be published! 
Also loved Haunted Lands Trilogy, War of the Spiderqueen and Lady Penitent. Great, great stuff!
I am curious, which future 4e novels will achieve the level of the latter ones! |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 00:46:39
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Originally posted by skychrome
There have been some rather bad novels like "City of splendors", several average ones but also lots of really good stuff that one would not normally expect from fantasy novels that are being sold at 6 dollars!
Just out of curiosity, why did you consider City of Splendors bad?
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 01:21:07
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Just out of curiosity, why did you consider City of Splendors bad?
Well, I consider it rather bad because it is supposed to be a "Cities" novel in one of the supposedly most fascinating cities in the realms.
Elaine Cunningham provided some really good city atmosphere with nice atmospheric details in the Councelors & Kings Trilogy. Waterdeep is also quite well described in Songs & Swords.
In this book however I did feel the fascinating city flair only on few occasions because the story was in my opinion simply bad. True, all famous/classical elements of Waterdeep had a role, but... I do not know how to put it well... it felt like Hollywood screwing up one of your holy grale favorite settings.
Some kind of "let's put the Waterdeep All Stars in the novel and build some mediocre story around it" and everyone will buy it. Why make an effort to bewitch readers, when everyone already knows and loves this city?
I personally did not like the story between the noble fops and the girls, I did not like the villains and their walking statues move... and lots of stuff more especially the details that provide a nice city atmosphere (think about Paul S. Kemp's description of Skullport in the 2nd book of the Erevis Cale Trilogy which is a good benchmark how to capture readers).
I think Elaine Cunningham is a really good writer and Waterdeep a fascinating city.
In this case however, I think it just did not do merit to Waterdeep.
I don't know, if you see where I am going? What do you think about the book Sage?
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 16:16:51
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Originally posted by skychrome
I have read quite a bunch of FR novels so far, but all "post-TSR".
There have been some rather bad novels like "City of splendors", several average ones but also lots of really good stuff that one would not normally expect from fantasy novels that are being sold at 6 dollars!
My first FR book was The Black Bouquet. Good one and I just found out recently, that it is set in the Border Kingdoms.
any
I did not hook up much with Salvatore's style that lacks atmospheric and detailed settings descriptions but liked Elaine Cunningham's Kings and Councelors Trilogy and also Song and Swords books.
Excellent single books where City of Ravens and Shadow's Wittness.
I loved all series around Erevis Cale, absolut awesome fantasy literature. Paul S. Kemp is a master at work and I can't wait for his Cycle of Night Trilogy to be published!
Also loved Haunted Lands Trilogy, War of the Spiderqueen and Lady Penitent. Great, great stuff!
I am curious, which future 4e novels will achieve the level of the latter ones!
any info on the cycleof night trilogy. |
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 16:54:52
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Originally posted by swifty
any info on the cycleof night trilogy.
No, except what Paul Kemp stated on his forum page:
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Paul Kemp January 9, 2009:
"Individual titles for the three books of the Cycle of Night, my next Realms trilogy, are as follows:
Book I: Godborn
Book II: Godbound
Book III: Godslayer
I hope you dig on them.
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I think I also read that the first book might be due in 2010, but I am not sure.
The book will introduce new characters and continue events from Twilight War, but 100 years later and with *spoiler* Erevis Cale´s son as the main character !
I think Paul also anounced this in the Chamber of Sages. In fact he invited people on his forum to check out his commments about the upcoming trilogy here on candlekeep!
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mnb128
Learned Scribe
USA
130 Posts |
Posted - 01 Apr 2009 : 05:05:23
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| Finished The Maelstrom's Eye (book 3 of The Cloakmaster Cycle) yesterday. I felt it was better than Into the Void, primarily because I felt that Roger E. Moore brought the main character, Teldin Moore, back into character. As often happens in series written by multiple authors (WotSQ for example) often times character personalities sometimes jump around from one book to the next. Teldin felt much more like the Teldin from Beyond the Moons in book 3. All in all I'd place it 2nd of the 3 books so far. I'm 120 pages into The Radiant Dragon so far, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. |
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 01 Apr 2009 : 15:10:16
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Originally posted by mnb128
Finished The Maelstrom's Eye (book 3 of The Cloakmaster Cycle) yesterday.
Interesting, I have never heard of this series. Ist that FR? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
713 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2009 : 15:07:01
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Thanks Sage!
Too bad, that stuff is not for sale anymore, same with some TSR FR novels I wanted to read...  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36996 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2009 : 15:29:55
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Originally posted by skychrome
Thanks Sage!
Too bad, that stuff is not for sale anymore, same with some TSR FR novels I wanted to read...
There are places that carry used books... Abebooks.com, Alibris.com, Amazon.com... I think NobleKnight.com does novels (I won't swear to it). I've replaced a lot of novels by going to eBay, myself -- including the Cloakmaster Cycle, and most of the older FR novels. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 02 Apr 2009 : 15:55:53
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by skychrome
Thanks Sage!
Too bad, that stuff is not for sale anymore, same with some TSR FR novels I wanted to read...
There are places that carry used books... Abebooks.com, Alibris.com, Amazon.com... I think NobleKnight.com does novels (I won't swear to it). I've replaced a lot of novels by going to eBay, myself -- including the Cloakmaster Cycle, and most of the older FR novels.
Nobleknight.com does indeed stock the old TSR novels -- including those of the "Cloakmaster Cycle." They're almost always reasonably priced and handle shipping rather promptly too. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2009 : 18:28:15
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I finally finished Temple Hill. It was nice to spend a few relaxing hours reading it. Helped soothe my head of all the bs I'm having at work this week.
I think I will start Bloodwalk now. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 02 Apr 2009 : 18:28:36
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I finally finished Temple Hill. It was nice to spend a few relaxing hours reading it. Helped soothe my head of all the bs I'm having at work this week.
I think I will start Bloodwalk now. |
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Kyrene
Senior Scribe
South Africa
767 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2009 : 08:21:38
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| I am awaiting the backorder of Shadowbred to begin reading the Twilight War trilogy (should arrive today), then I'll possibly get the Threat from the Sea Omnibus. As for the post-Sellplague novels, with Ed's last words about Erik's Downshadow I am finding it harder to motivate not getting any of them. I guess I'll see once I'm finished with Paul's trilogy. |
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mnb128
Learned Scribe
USA
130 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2009 : 16:36:48
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| I finished The Radiant Dragon (book 4 in the Cloakmaster Cycle) last night, and I thought it was excellent. This is my fourth Elaine Cunningham book, the others being the Starlight & Shadows series, and they've all been great. She managed to take what had been a mediocre series to this point and produce a novel that I did not want to put down. I especially liked the little "easter eggs" that were thrown in. There's an interesting tidbit of lore about Yggdrasil's Child, which played an important role in Starlight & Shadows. There was an elven man-o-war called Windwalker, which I found interesting. Also, a portion of the book took place on Evermeet, so I would consider this a Realms novel as well as a Spelljammer novel. I'm really looking forward to finishing up this series and then digging into Elfshadow. |
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ajfurst
Acolyte
Australia
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Posted - 06 Apr 2009 : 14:56:51
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| I've bought a few FR novels lately. Just finished the Shadow Stone and managed to pick up all the ever elusive double diamond series. Finished book 3 today (having picked up books 1 & 2 earlier) and onto book's 4 - 9 next. |
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 06 Apr 2009 : 16:14:48
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| Finally finished Dangerous Games (got sidetracked playing Sonic Chronicles: the Dark Brotherhood in the middle of it). On to Mortal Consequences. |
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mnb128
Learned Scribe
USA
130 Posts |
Posted - 07 Apr 2009 : 16:20:11
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| Finished The Broken Sphere last night. I felt that it was better than Into the Void, the other book in the series by Nigel Findley. Not great but entertaining at least. Next up is the final book in The Cloakmaster Cycle, The Ultimate Helm. |
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edappel
Learned Scribe
Brazil
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Posted - 07 Apr 2009 : 19:01:39
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| I finished Undead... I have already ordered Unholy from Amazon... Until there, I'll read Shadowbred and Shadowrealm... |
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 10 Apr 2009 : 22:26:37
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| just ordered maiden of pain and lady of poison.once ive finished the priests series its onto house of serpents trilogy. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 11 Apr 2009 : 04:02:08
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Started Downshadow. I like it.
Alot. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 11 Apr 2009 : 22:26:53
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I just got Downshadow today... As soon as I finish my library book, I'll read Downshadow.
Did y'all note the acknowledgments in Downshadow?  |
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Steffen Farslayer
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 11 Apr 2009 : 22:56:04
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I just finished Downshadow and it was fantastic.
I own all but about 20 of the Forgotten Realms books but unfortunately have not read them all. At least I know that I know that I have some great things ahead of me to read.
Next up for me is Swords of Eveningstar. Florin Falconhand is one of my favorite heroes of the Realms and look forward to reading of his beginnings. |
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How up to date are you with reading FR novels?
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