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Valmour
Acolyte
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 Posted - 12 Jan 2013 : 14:05:57
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Boulder Shoulder Brothers for sure... Ivan and Pikel
Sellsword Trilogy favorite trilogy, but really liking Elminster, the Making of a Mage...
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CorellonsDevout
Great Reader
USA
2708 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jan 2013 : 23:54:20
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Wow, hard question. There are a lot FR books and characters I like. I can't list them all! But...here is a sample, and in no particular order
Xzorsh (Starlight and Shadows)
Liriel (Starlight and Shadows)
Mirror (Haunted Lands)
Pavel (Rogue Dragons)
Drizzt (Legend of Drizzt)
Jarlaxle (Legend of Drizzt and Sellswords)
Kalen (Shadowbane)
Mandaurthis (Chosen of Nendawen)
Lendri (Chosen of Nendowen)
Zaor (Evermeet)
Phaeraun (WotSQ and Empyrean Odyssey)
Ryld (WotSQ)
Valas (WotSQ)
Q'arlynd (Lady Penitent)
Naxil (Lady Penitent)
Magadon (Erevis Cale and Twilight Wars)
Cale (Erevis Cale and Twilight Wars)
Riven (Erevis Cale and Twilight Wars)
Abolar (Erevis Cale and Twilight Wars)
Araevin (Last Mythal)
Starbow (Last Mythal)
Taraun (Empyrean Odyssey)
Vedoran (Unbroken Chain)
Ashok (Unbroken Chain. And I really like the two brothers from those novels too, but their names escape me)
I'm sure there's more, and I'll probably be reminded of them as other people post. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36968 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2013 : 04:40:40
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by CorellonsDevout
Phaeraun (WotSQ and Empyrean Odyssey)
Pharaun was in the "Empyrean Odyssey" books? I didn't know that.
From what I understand, he wasn't in them for long. |
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CorellonsDevout
Great Reader
USA
2708 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2013 : 05:02:59
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| Yeah, but he got totally ripped off >< good books, bad ending |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2013 : 07:49:34
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by CorellonsDevout
Phaeraun (WotSQ and Empyrean Odyssey)
Pharaun was in the "Empyrean Odyssey" books? I didn't know that.
Really? So you haven't read those plethora of scrolls where scribes denounced Reid's (mis-)use of Pharaun: [spoiler]he was resurrected only to be killed off again, in the most horrible of ways. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2013 : 07:50:29
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| Ah well. I've been putting off reading them for some time, but now that I know Pharaun's involved -- even if it's only a little bit -- I may have to bump them higher up on my Realms "To-Read" stack. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2013 : 07:54:15
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Originally posted by Dennis
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by CorellonsDevout
Phaeraun (WotSQ and Empyrean Odyssey)
Pharaun was in the "Empyrean Odyssey" books? I didn't know that.
Really? So you haven't read those plethora of scrolls where scribes denounced Reid's (mis-)use of Pharaun: [spoiler]he was resurrected only to be killed off again, in the most horrible of ways.
I like Reid's Realms novels. He's among my favourite list of favoured authors writing for the setting. So, as a rule, I generally tend to avoid any scrolls discussing his works, so they're not spoiled later.
It's also why I'm not reading your SPOILER space. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2013 : 08:04:37
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Meh. If I were you, I'd rather invest my precious time in some other Realms or non-Realms novels. [The Fractured Sky, Book 2 in the series, is one of the very few books I literally threw away. Yes, that's how I loved it. Though of course, I heard other scribes praised that series to the heavens.] |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2013 : 11:44:45
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I just read the last book of that series and then couldn't muster enough enthusiasm to read the rest.
In spite of that it seemed like a pretty good series to me. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2013 : 14:19:04
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Originally posted by Thauranil
I just read the last book of that series and then couldn't muster enough enthusiasm to read the rest.
In spite of that it seemed like a pretty good series to me.
I have read the first 2 books of that series and am not impressed. I enjoyed Reid's previous Realms books, but this series just feels like it has something missing. I will read book 3 just to check it off of my "To Read" Realms book list. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2013 : 15:06:20
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Originally posted by Dennis
Meh. If I were you, I'd rather invest my precious time in some other Realms or non-Realms novels. [The Fractured Sky, Book 2 in the series, is one of the very few books I literally threw away. Yes, that's how I loved it. Though of course, I heard other scribes praised that series to the heavens.]
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CorellonsDevout
Great Reader
USA
2708 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2013 : 20:18:31
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| The first book was pretty slow, but I liked 2 and 3...until the end. I hated the ending, |
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joeplummer
Acolyte
USA
5 Posts |
Posted - 03 Oct 2013 : 11:54:45
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| hard to choose favorite character either Malik he always makes me laugh, or Jarlaxle. Favorite trilogy though really hard to pick one so a top 5; Year of The Rouge Dragons, Empires which is completely overlooked and underrated in my opinion, Starlight and Shadows ending was a bummer though, Erevis Cale Trilogy, and Last Mythal |
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Volathar
Acolyte
Turkey
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Posted - 03 Oct 2013 : 15:57:34
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Among the books I've read so far, I think I can name Entreri as my favourite character. Actually, he was better in the older books, but I still enjoy reading the books more, when he's involved. The duo of him and Jarlaxle was really great & fun to read, in the Sellswords trilogy.
I cannot name a favourite single book though. However, "The Sellswords" Trilogy, "The Twilight War" Trilogy and "Haunted Lands" Trilogy (especially Szass Tam's pages) were all great. Right now, I'm reading the third book of the "War of the Spider Queen" series and it's really good. I guess Pharaun can be a hell of a candidate for my "favourite characters" list, as well. |
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