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[Seán]

MorteTorment(Unofficial World's Fastest Reader) wrote:
Would love to do this with a TON of forgotten realms books :D


I'm definitely down for doing a massive FR read if people are interested!

[Margret, Caladan Brood Face]

Persepolis Rising

December 5th release.

This is where I force Niki to BR with me..

[Margret, Caladan Brood Face]

MorteTorment(Unofficial World's Fastest Reader) wrote: "Margret wrote: "@Morte is mid December ok? 20th?"

Works for me!"

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Shaitarn]

Seán wrote: "MorteTorment(Unofficial World's Fastest Reader) wrote:
Would love to do this with a TON of forgotten realms books :D


I'm definitely down for doing a massive FR read if people are interested!"

Well I'd be up for it - I have a shelf and a half FR books that are probably due a read. Is January soon enough for you? And what would you like to start with? I suggested the Harpers series, but we could start with something else if you'd like to do a massive FR binge!

[Shaitarn]

Hacen wrote: "Is anyone interested in reading the abhorsen series some time next year? I've read the first three but I'd like to do a reread of them before reading the rest."

Hacen, I have Sabriel listed for my book challenge next year so would be happy to read the trilogy with you!

[Beste]

Anyone interested in reading Demon Cycle?

[Sha]

Hacen wrote: "Sha wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Sha wrote: "Does anyone here read/plan to read Tamora Pierce? Her new Tortall series is out in February..."

I plan on reading it"

:D can we be [book:Tempests and Slaught..."

Yas.
When would be a good time for you?

[Hacen]

Sha wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Sha wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Sha wrote: "Does anyone here read/plan to read Tamora Pierce? Her new Tortall series is out in February..."

I plan on reading it"

:D can we be [book:Tempes..."

Hmm it comes out on the 6th and I have Buddy Reads on the 5th and 10th. Do you have any planned around that time?

[Hacen]

Shaitarn wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Is anyone interested in reading the abhorsen series some time next year? I've read the first three but I'd like to do a reread of them before reading the rest."

Hacen, I have Sabriel..."

What would be a good time for you? Would you want to do it maybe after April when more people are freed up to join too?

[Shaitarn]

Hacen wrote: "Shaitarn wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Is anyone interested in reading the abhorsen series some time next year? I've read the first three but I'd like to do a reread of them before reading the rest."

Hace..."

After April would be fine for me; let me know when is good for you and I'll squeeze it in somewhere!

[Sha]

Hacen wrote: "Sha wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Sha wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Sha wrote: "Does anyone here read/plan to read Tamora Pierce? Her new Tortall series is out in February..."

I plan on reading it"

:D can we be ..."

I only have Last Unicorn penciled in, and that's for the 17th. However, I may need a week or two to actually get the book. Would a week after the release do? Unless you want to read it sooner.

[Chris]

Beste wrote: "Anyone interested in reading Demon Cycle?"

I really need to finish those. I've read the first two, but it's been years.

[Beste]

Chris wrote: "Beste wrote: "Anyone interested in reading Demon Cycle?"

I really need to finish those. I've read the first two, but it's been years."

So I should get them?

[Ahdam]

I've just read desert spear last month and I also met the author in September and so far I'm enjoying the series so it's worth a try if you do get some people to join you and you want to continue the series I may join for the third book but so far I'm liking how the story is going

[Hacen]

Sha wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Sha wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Sha wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Sha wrote: "Does anyone here read/plan to read Tamora Pierce? Her new Tortall series is out in February..."

I plan on reading it"
..."

Do you want to try for the 13th and we can always change it if we need too?

[Chris]

I'd recommend them, Beste. Only reason I didn't keep reading was that they were the only books out at the time.

[Hacen]

Shaitarn wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Shaitarn wrote: "Hacen wrote: "Is anyone interested in reading the abhorsen series some time next year? I've read the first three but I'd like to do a reread of them before reading th..."

Holy cow. Just looked at the buddy read list for next year and the years already packed.

[Delitealex]

Beste wrote: "Anyone interested in reading Demon Cycle?"

When did you want to read them? I can do march

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Chris Murphy and I were talking about converging for a BR of the third demon cycle once he caught up. I put it in DNF, but it has been calling to me. If the group reads, maybe we can both join the bandwagon.

[Beste]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Chris Murphy and I were talking about converging for a BR of the third demon cycle once he caught up. I put it in DNF, but it has been calling to me. If the group reads, maybe we can both join the ..."

Yes!! Niki pls.
@Delitealex can we see what others have in mind too?

[Sha]

Hacen wrote: "Do you want to try for the 13th and we can always change it if we need too?"

Perfect.

[Anni]

I only read the first book from the Demon Cycle in March as a Buddyread here and would gladly join you for Desert Spear. :)

[butterbean]

Would anyone like to read another book?

[Chris]

Anni wrote: "I only read the first book from the Demon Cycle in March as a Buddyread here and would gladly join you for Desert Spear. :)"

I still have to read desert spear, so when you get it together, I'll join you guys!

[Hacen]

Madelyn wrote: "Would anyone like to read another book?"

What book?

[Seán]

Shaitarn wrote: "Seán wrote: "MorteTorment(Unofficial World's Fastest Reader) wrote:
Would love to do this with a TON of forgotten realms books :D


I'm definitely down for doing a massive FR read if people are i..."

Starting in mid-January works for me?

Harpers first sounds good, but I really don't mind. We can just go for that series first and then go from there if it's a success. I've been meaning to start Drizzt's books again and work up to the newer ones I missed, and I know I have a set by Elaine Cunningham that I wanted to get to eventually.

I'm very excited to get started though!

[Laura]

@ Sean - I'd like to join you for Drizzt if you want to BR the series. I've read the first 3 and want to go on with the others also.

And would anyone be interested in Salvatore's Demonwars Saga?

[Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥]

Laura, I would like to continue on with Drizzt as well! I have read the first 4. Although, I have them in all different freaking lists. Every time I get them numbered I have to change them and then change them again. Lol. Let me know if you all are going to do a series read and I will start with you on the next book I haven't read and so on until the end of time 😄

[Seán]

Laura wrote: "@ Sean - I'd like to join you for Drizzt if you want to BR the series. I've read the first 3 and want to go on with the others also.

And would anyone be interested in Salvatore's Demonwars Saga?"

I'm definitely up for starting the series at some point alright! We can maybe get the Harper series started with Shaitarn and then get a larger FR read organised in the meantime?

And by larger, I mean let's read every single FR book in some to-be-determined order :)

[Laura]

I can't do the Harper series as I don't have the books. :(
Also, I have so many that I own and haven't read yet - I promised myself to finish as many of my Owned-To-Read shelf as possible by next year. I'll hop into your BRs for those that I do have.

[Laura]

@Mel - I can read the 4th one by myself so we can continue with the 5th. It would be great to BR them together. 😘 Do you have a start date in mind?

[Seán]

Laura wrote: "I can't do the Harper series as I don't have the books. :(
Also, I have so many that I own and haven't read yet - I promised myself to finish as many of my Owned-To-Read shelf as possible by next ..."

Cool, well we'll get something formal organised. I have a bit of time so might draw up a....sizeable list and see what people think :)

[Laura]

@Sean - Mine are in total dissaray. Sorted by author with just a small note of forgotten realms. I honestly haven't got a clue which is the order - if there is any.

[Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥]

Laura wrote: "@Mel - I can read the 4th one by myself so we can continue with the 5th. It would be great to BR them together. 😘 Do you have a start date in mind?"

Okay, the next one I have as 5 is Streams of Silver and whenever. 😊 I have a huge stack of all the ones up to the current ones.

[Shaitarn]

Seán wrote: "Laura wrote: "@ Sean - I'd like to join you for Drizzt if you want to BR the series. I've read the first 3 and want to go on with the others also.

And would anyone be interested in Salvatore's Dem..."

Would you prefer to start with a different FR series then? as I recall a couple of the Harpers books (Crown of Fire, for example) feature a character that was in another book and while this novel can be read without any previous knowledge, it might spoil the first novel when we get around to it.

[Seán]

I think there's always going to be a few small spoilers because so many of the series have crossover characters. I don't want to limit ourselves to only the Drizzt series, but I know it's probably the easiest to get started on. So we can just go with the Harper series to get the ball rolling, or step back and aim for something bigger.

I'm cool either way - I know you just suggested the Harper series initially so I'm cool to just go with that :)

[Laura]

@Shaitarn - I have Crown of Fire so I'll BR that one. The thing is I am not really sure which Forgotten Realms books I do have. I'll check them out this evening and let you know. if only few of them are missing I'll sign up for the whole series BR and manage even with borrowing from the library.

[Laura]

Do you guys happen to know of a particular Forgotten Realms order?

[Laura]

@Mel - That's 5 by my counting also 😊. I can read the 4th this month and we could go for the 5th in December then continue with 1 a month. What do you say lovely? Should we ask for a thread?

[Seán]

Laura wrote: "Do you guys happen to know of a particular Forgotten Realms order?"

There's a publication order, which has a lot of crap that'd be worth filtering out. And then there's a chronological order in terms of when events in the world happen, but again there'd be plenty to trim from that.

I can do up a list of the series that look worth reading and the order that would result in the least amount of crossovers/spoilers? There's a few similar lists floating around, but nothing that seems to include series like the Harpers, which I'm definitely interested in.

[Laura]

A list would be great Sean. I'm also checking right now which Forgotten Realms series I have. There are quite a few of them.

[Shaitarn]

Seán wrote: "Laura wrote: "Do you guys happen to know of a particular Forgotten Realms order?"

There's a publication order, which has a lot of crap that'd be worth filtering out. And then there's a chronologic..."

I think the only books the Harpers may 'spoil' are the Finder's Stone trilogy (starts with Azure Bonds) and Spellfire which is the prequel to Crown of Fire. If you're not too worried about that, we can start with the Harpers whenever you like.

[Shaitarn]

Laura - make sure you read the Cleric Quintet after the Icewind Dale trilogy, before starting the Legacy books!

[Laura]

I'll do that Shaitarn. Thank you.

Regarding Harpers - I don't have any of them so I'm out. If you guys will BR Elminster or Shandril's Saga however I'd like to join.

[Seán]

Ok, so I made a list. This is something I've been planning to do for a while, so no I haven't gone completely nuts. It's a rough reading order for everything FR based on publication order, trying to account for crossovers, and listing what's more than likely skippable. It's fine up until about 2006, when there are just so many series released that I don't know what to do with, so I just listed them at the end. The Drizzt books have been fully accounted for in the main list.

So here you go:

(view spoiler)[Starting with the earliest publication order, and trying to account for various timelines that may crossover. (s) indicates the series can likely be skipped.

Moonshae Trilogy (s)
Icewind Dale Trilogy
The Finder’s Stone Trilogy (links to Books 10 and 15 of Harper Series)
Avatar Series – Books 1-3
Maztica Trilogy (s)
Empires Trilogy (s)
Dark Elf Trilogy
The Harpers – Books 1-5
The Pools Trilogy (s)
The Cleric Quintet
Druidholme Trilogy (follows from Moonshae Trilogy, s)
Legacy of the Drow
The Harpers – Books 6-9
The Twilight Giants (s)
Avatar – Book 4
Elminster (can in theory be read anywhere, as they predate the chronology by a lot)
Shadow of the Avatar Trilogy
The Nobles – Books 1-3 (s)
The Harpers – Books 10-13
Starlight and Shadows – Books 1-2
Netheril Trilogy (s)
The Nobles – Books 4-6 (s)
The Lost Gods – Books 1 and 3 (s)
Avatar – Book 5
Double Diamond Triangle Saga (s)
The Harpers – Book 16
Paths to Darkness
Lost Empires – Books 1-3 (s)
Song and Swords – Book 5 (the first four books have been read by this point)
The Threat From the Sea (s)
The Cormyr Saga (s)
Lost Empires – Book 4 (s)
Counselors and Kings (s)
Sembia: Gateway to the Realms – Books 1-3 (s)
The Cities
Return of the Archwizards (s)
Sembia: Gateway to the Realms – Books 4-7 (s)
War of the Spider Queen – Books 1-3
Starlight and Shadows – Book 3
The Hunters Blade Trilogy
The Rogues (s)
The Erevis Cale Trilogy (s)
War of the Spider Queen – Books 4-6
The Sellswords – Books 2-3

These are the remaining Drizzt books that I’ll include separately as there are a ton of other series released at this point.

Transitions
The Neverwinter Saga
The Companions + Companions Codex
Homecoming


The following are published post-War of the Spider Queen. At this point there are a ton of news series and I’m really not sure which ones are worth reading and in what order.

The Priests
The Year of the Rogue Dragons
House of Serpents
The Last Mythal
Scions of Arrabar
The Fighters
Watercourse Trilogy
The Wizards
The Twilight War
The Lady Penitent
The Dungeons
The Haunted Lands
The Empyrean Odyssey
The Citadels (!)
Blades of the Moonsea
Waterdeep (!)
Abolethic Sovereignty
The Wilds
Stone of Tymora
Chosen of Nendawen
Brotherhood of the Griffon
Sage of Shadowdale
Brimstone Angels
The Sundering (!)
(hide spoiler)]

So I'm not suggesting reading all of these! But the list is there, and it's on to-do list at some point. The Harpers definitely look like a good starting point to get into the world, cover a lot of ground, and not have too much spoiled due to crossover.

For insane people like me, I think it's a pretty good list :)

[Delitealex]

I've been wanting to read the Drizzt books and I haven't read many of the other FR either. I have to see what is available at my library.

[Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥]

Laura wrote: "@Mel - That's 5 by my counting also 😊. I can read the 4th this month and we could go for the 5th in December then continue with 1 a month. What do you say lovely? Should we ask for a thread?"

Sounds like a plan 😘

[Laura]

Melissa ♥ Dog Lover ♥ wrote: "Laura wrote: "@Mel -

Sounds like a plan 😘

Great!! Which date in December?

[Laura]

Seán wrote: "Ok, so I made a list. This is something I've been planning to do for a while, so no I haven't gone completely nuts. It's a rough reading order for everything FR based on publication order, trying t..."

That's quite the list Sean.

Here's what I have from it:

(view spoiler)[Icewind Dale Trilogy
Empires Trilogy (s)
Dark Elf Trilogy
The Cleric Quintet
Legacy of the Drow
Elminster
Paths to Darkness
The Threat From the Sea (s)
Counselors and Kings (s)
The Cities
War of the Spider Queen – Books 1-3
The Hunters Blade Trilogy
War of the Spider Queen – Books 4-6
The Sellswords – Books 2-3

and from the latter books:
The Wizards
The Sundering (!) – book 1 but I can get book 2 from the library. (hide spoiler)]

Do you want to BR any of the above?

[Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥]

Laura wrote: "Melissa ♥ Dog Lover ♥ wrote: "Laura wrote: "@Mel -

Sounds like a plan 😘

Great!! Which date in December?"

4th 😊