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Avix
Acolyte
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 Posted - 01 Apr 2013 : 23:37:21
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Well met fellow Candlekeepers
I'm curious how many FR novels each one of you has. As I'm a relative newcomer to the novels, I have just 4 of them so far.
I bet there are some real hardcore readers among you :)
Avix
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36793 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 00:04:25
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quote:
Originally posted by Avix
Well met fellow Candlekeepers
I'm curious how many FR novels each one of you has. As I'm a relative newcomer to the novels, I have just 4 of them so far.
I bet there are some real hardcore readers among you :)
Avix
Just over 200 novels. And every FR module, boxed set, or sourcebook printed and sold, plus a few things distributed thru other means.
And I've bought at least 90% of that stuff twice -- I lost my original collection in a fire, and built a bigger collection afterward. |
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Tanthalas
Senior Scribe
Portugal
508 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 00:38:58
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I probably have about a little over 100 actual books. I think around 10 of them are Omnibus of trilogies. There are very few readily accessible physical books that I haven't bought yet.
I prefer buying physical books so my e-book collection only includes e-book only novels and older novels that are out of print. I have 10 so far but the collection is very likely to grow soon. |
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Aulduron
Learned Scribe
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 00:45:19
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| I'm not going to count them, but I have dozens. Maybe over 100. Even more if you count the books I've leant to a friend. |
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Tyrant
Senior Scribe
USA
586 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 01:45:13
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| I have a little over 190 novels and I've read almost 140 of them so far. I also have an assortment of RPG material (mostly 3.x and 4th, but a few older gems like Cloak and Dagger) but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the total amount available out there. I don't play the RPG so that material is just to get a better picture of the setting as well as the game since the game does impact the setting. |
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-The Sith Code
Teenage Sith zombies, Tulkh thought-how in the moons of Bogden had it all started? Every so often, the universe must just get bored and decide to really cut loose. -Star Wars: Red Harvest |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 04:07:14
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Just over a hundred . . . because I avoid the elfy, priestly, “fightery”ones. |
Every beginning has an end. |
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Valmour
Acolyte
27 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 09:50:03
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| I have been reading FR books for just over 2 years and was buying them a book or two at a time, but I found a guy selling over 220+ FR books online for just about a $1 per book. That was a deal too good to pass up... I think I am closing in on just about 100 books read over the last few years. |
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Mirtek
Senior Scribe
595 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 12:11:38
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I have 267 FR novels, already read 254 of them.
I buy only Paperbacks and prefer physical books whenever possible.
Thus I have every paperback that is currently available, the six e-book only novels (and only because they are e-book only, I would never buy an e-book of a novel when physical copies are available or announced to be available in X month) and I am currenlty waiting for the paperback releases of The Last Threshold and Elminster Enraged (two of three FR novels currently available that I do not already own due to currently being hardcover&ebook only with paperbacks announced for the future).
Than there's the sad case of Murder in Halruaa which I still refuse to believe is the only FR novel only available as hardcover (the paperback release was unfortunately lost in the transition when TSR went bankrupt). I am still holding on to the fantasy that some paperbacks were printed and waiting forgotten in some dusty warehouse  |
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Avix
Acolyte
22 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 12:12:36
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Wow! Some of the answers tell me that I am not crazy wanting to buy every single FR novel published (except the sourcebooks since I don't play)
Thanks guys! |
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Avix
Acolyte
22 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 12:29:31
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| As for paperbacks, I can't buy them because there's not too many FR novels in Poland (except for R.A. Salvatore's books which is a fraction of the whole FR universe). Thankfully, many of the novels can be bought in e-book form :) |
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Mirtek
Senior Scribe
595 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 12:40:20
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quote:
Originally posted by Avix
Wow! Some of the answers tell me that I am not crazy wanting to buy every single FR novel published (except the sourcebooks since I don't play)
Thanks guys!
Took me 15 years from reading my first FR novel with a dictionary right next to it due to me hardly speaking english until me hopefully standing at the edge of the (paperback) release schedule by end of this year |
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Avix
Acolyte
22 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 12:43:17
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Originally posted by Mirtek
quote:
Originally posted by Avix
Wow! Some of the answers tell me that I am not crazy wanting to buy every single FR novel published (except the sourcebooks since I don't play)
Thanks guys!
Took me 15 years from reading my first FR novel with a dictionary right next to it due to me hardly speaking english until me hopefully standing at the edge of the (paperback) release schedule by end of this year
I hope I can catch up too :) |
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ElaineCunningham
Forgotten Realms Author
2396 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 12:53:14
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Originally posted by Avix
As for paperbacks, I can't buy them because there's not too many FR novels in Poland (except for R.A. Salvatore's books which is a fraction of the whole FR universe). Thankfully, many of the novels can be bought in e-book form :)
Avix, most of my books and nearly all of the anthologies are published in Polish translation, so I suspected that other authors have also been translated. I went to www.isa.pl , the website of the Polish publisher who published my books. If you do a search on "Forgotten Realms," what pops up are mostly game products, but I plugged a couple of writers' names into the search and sure enough, they have quite a few FR novels in translation. You can order them directly from the publisher's website. |
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Avix
Acolyte
22 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2013 : 13:31:09
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Originally posted by ElaineCunningham
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Originally posted by Avix
As for paperbacks, I can't buy them because there's not too many FR novels in Poland (except for R.A. Salvatore's books which is a fraction of the whole FR universe). Thankfully, many of the novels can be bought in e-book form :)
Avix, most of my books and nearly all of the anthologies are published in Polish translation, so I suspected that other authors have also been translated. I went to www.isa.pl , the website of the Polish publisher who published my books. If you do a search on "Forgotten Realms," what pops up are mostly game products, but I plugged a couple of writers' names into the search and sure enough, they have quite a few FR novels in translation. You can order them directly from the publisher's website.
Thanks for the advice Elaine, although I like reading FR novels in the original. One of the reasons is my undying love for the language of Shakespeare :) |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31716 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2013 : 02:59:36
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Well, aside from the "Double Diamond Saga" books [which were very difficult to purchase here upon their initial release] and a few RAS novels that really haven't interested me all that much, I have every novel* published for the FORGOTTEN REALMS -- from 1987 to 2013.
*Which also now gratifyingly includes all e-books for entirely new FR novels. |
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2013 : 03:39:44
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Richard Lee Byers:
The Year of Rogue Dragons omnibus
The Haunted Lands Trilogy
The Brotherhood of the Griffon: 1-4
R.A. Salvatore:
Icewind Dale Trilogy
Dark Elf Trilogy
Cleric Quintet
Legacy of the Drow
Paths of Darkness
The Hunters' Blades
The Sellswords
Transitions
Neverwinter Saga 1-3
Erik Scott De Bie:
Ghostwalker
Shadowbane
Paul S. Kemp:
Shadow's Witness
Erevis Cale Trilogy
Twilight War Trilogy
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jornan
Learned Scribe
Canada
256 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2013 : 04:04:34
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| All of them minus about 3 or 4 that were published in 2012 in paperback and ebook exclusive. I think that number must be climbing closer to the 300 mark. |
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Avix
Acolyte
22 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2013 : 12:36:36
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| Looks like I've got a loooooooooooong road ahead of me before I catch up to you guys! I'm only buying e=books because they're readily available most of the time! :) |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2013 : 12:43:29
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| Hmm not exactly sure but it must be close to a 100 at least. It would be more but they are a bit hard to get in India and I don't like e books much. |
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Avix
Acolyte
22 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2013 : 12:51:25
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Originally posted by Thauranil
Hmm not exactly sure but it must be close to a 100 at least. It would be more but they are a bit hard to get in India and I don't like e books much.
There certainly are a few advantages and disadvantages of e-books vs. paperbacks but I know what you mean :) |
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charger_ss24
Learned Scribe
USA
108 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2013 : 21:19:21
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Good question. I really have no idea how many I have. I have maybe a dozen or so here with me now, while the rest are buried somewhere at my folks house a few states away. I started out with Dragon Lance, but quickly converted after reading my first FR book, Crypt of the Shadowking. The last FR book I read was the 24th book (I think) in the Drizzt series, The Last Threshold.
As I wait for the next book of that series to come out, I may start up the Elminster series again. I stopped at the Temptation of Elminster and I think there are three books after that one. |
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Avix
Acolyte
22 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2013 : 21:39:15
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Originally posted by charger_ss24
Good question. I really have no idea how many I have. I have maybe a dozen or so here with me now, while the rest are buried somewhere at my folks house a few states away. I started out with Dragon Lance, but quickly converted after reading my first FR book, Crypt of the Shadowking. The last FR book I read was the 24th book (I think) in the Drizzt series, The Last Threshold.
As I wait for the next book of that series to come out, I may start up the Elminster series again. I stopped at the Temptation of Elminster and I think there are three books after that one.
I am waaaaay behind you man! Just finished my first outing with Drizzt in the Crystsl Shard (I'm reading according to the PubOrder) and I am already hooked not only on the drow but the whole Forgotten Realms world :) |
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Clad In Shadows
Learned Scribe
Canada
158 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2013 : 22:07:52
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| I currently own 117 FR novels. I have read 61 so far. My first FR novel was Streams of Silver in 1996. |
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CorellonsDevout
Great Reader
USA
2708 Posts |
Posted - 03 Apr 2013 : 23:31:19
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| Haven't counted. Probably in the 200 range |
Sweet water and light laughter |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
11806 Posts |
Posted - 04 Apr 2013 : 00:11:38
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| 3 book shelves, 2 deep, 31 books per row plus some laying about, plus about 10-20 hardbacks and a small handful of digital versions.... so something over 200. That's just novels. Been reading them since the realms came out. However, even with all that, I know I'm only reading like half or less of them. Of all those, there's probably 20 or so that I've bought and not read yet. |
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Mirtek
Senior Scribe
595 Posts |
Posted - 04 Apr 2013 : 01:53:17
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For those interested, here's my attempt to create a handy excel-list of all FR novels.
http://dfiles.eu/files/qc86bs419
I started with the list from o-love.net and added the novels that were new since their last update,
Note I did only count individual novels, so there are no omnibuses in this list. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
11806 Posts |
Posted - 04 Apr 2013 : 14:36:39
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Originally posted by The Sage
Well, aside from the "Double Diamond Saga" books [which were very difficult to purchase here upon their initial release] and a few RAS novels that really haven't interested me all that much, I have every novel* published for the FORGOTTEN REALMS -- from 1987 to 2013.
*Which also now gratifyingly includes all e-books for entirely new FR novels.
I never did get the double diamond saga. I know it involved Waterdeep and the Utter East area, but not sure what else. |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
Phillip aka Sleyvas |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 04 Apr 2013 : 23:07:29
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| I've got 205 that I own and have read plus another 16 that I own but have not read yet. |
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Delwa
Master of Realmslore
USA
1269 Posts |
Posted - 05 Apr 2013 : 03:54:44
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| 149 novels owned. At the moment, I've only read 48 of them. I have all of 3E's sourcebooks, read most of them (but have a horrible mental index, so I'm constantly giving myself refresher courses) recently aquired all to Volo's Guides, read two of them, working on the others, and I have several other 2E books and boxed sets I recently got for my birthday that I'm going through bit by bit, starting with the 2E Campaign Setting. |
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realmsrider
Acolyte
USA
48 Posts |
Posted - 05 Apr 2013 : 13:20:05
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I have about 90 but that also includes Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Eberron and Spelljammer. |
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 05 Apr 2013 : 16:09:56
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I sold and gave away a bunch of old Realms novels that I don't read anymore. Some I'd owned for years and carried around in large blue plastic stacking crates.
After awhile it seemed like a better idea to let some kid new to the Realms discover them in a used book store than to keep them on bookshelves that ran out of room a long time ago.
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