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Enialus Meliamne
Acolyte
Portugal
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 Posted - 02 Jan 2007 : 12:10:11
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Chronological...This will give you an idea of how somewhat compulsive a reader I can be. The other day, I was on here, and noticed a download (http://www.candlekeep.com/downloads/frchecklist.zip), which gives a detailed listing in chronology of Realms altering histories, so I went to Amazon, bought the remaining ones I don't have (Save The Last Mythal), and put down The City of Splendors, and started reading Evermeet again...So yes. Chronology is the way I would go.   |
Unashamed RAS fan.
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Reader of any author in FR who entertains or weaves a good yarn.
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 02 Jan 2007 : 23:36:07
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| I think reading every Realms book in chronological order is completely unnecessary, and not even desirable, but to each their own. *shrug* |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 03 Jan 2007 : 00:28:54
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I think reading every Realms book in chronological order is completely unnecessary, and not even desirable, but to each their own. *shrug*
I concur. I'll read every book of a particular series or trilogy in chronological order, but I'll not forgo reading a Realms novel that catches my eye simply because I've not read something else that chronologically comes first. If I was that way, I'd be screwed -- I've not yet read the Sembia books, I gave up on the Twilight Giants after the first book, and I've never had any particular desire to read the Maztica trilogy (which I only recently acquired). |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 03 Jan 2007 : 06:20:24
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| I concur. I usually try to read as published, but that does not dictate which order I read any realms novel. Sometimes it can get in the way, but mostly no issues. |
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Enialus Meliamne
Acolyte
Portugal
43 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jan 2007 : 11:55:39
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I think reading every Realms book in chronological order is completely unnecessary, and not even desirable, but to each their own. *shrug*
Normally, I read them as I buy them...The compulsion to read chronologically, only applies to the Realms changing books that I am about to have the complete collection of...
The one exception to this, is the Drizzt series, of which I've read each one, more then twice. The last time, I read them all in order, and I found a great deal more satisfaction out of that, hence why I recommended that for the original poster. |
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Reader of any author in FR who entertains or weaves a good yarn.
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Aureus
Learned Scribe
Luxembourg
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Posted - 03 Jan 2007 : 13:42:15
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| it doesn't matter in which order you read both triologies, by the way if you pay attention to what Drizzt says about diffrent subjects, you will find that some differe from the books, for exemple in the IcwTri, he said that he met his panther saved him during his travel back from ched nasad to menzo, but in the DET he has never been in an other Drow city during his youth, in DET he had been out because of something personal |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 03 Jan 2007 : 17:35:10
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Originally posted by Aureus
it doesn't matter in which order you read both triologies, by the way if you pay attention to what Drizzt says about diffrent subjects, you will find that some differe from the books, for exemple in the IcwTri, he said that he met his panther saved him during his travel back from ched nasad to menzo, but in the DET he has never been in an other Drow city during his youth, in DET he had been out because of something personal
In his first scene in The Crystal Shard, it also mentions he's more than 200 years old. The Dark Elf trilogy and everything since makes him like 80 or so. |
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Aureus
Learned Scribe
Luxembourg
125 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jan 2007 : 21:11:16
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i guess i have a newer version, because his age has never been stated in my copy of IcwTri
Salvatore adapted the character to be way cooler and have more inner conflict which seem to happen more when you are young (relativly speaking of course)
i also got the impression that Drizzt talks about his past as if has been a long time ago, he never said it explictly, but that's the impression I get |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36805 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jan 2007 : 21:48:12
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Originally posted by Aureus
i guess i have a newer version, because his age has never been stated in my copy of IcwTri
Salvatore adapted the character to be way cooler and have more inner conflict which seem to happen more when you are young (relativly speaking of course)
i also got the impression that Drizzt talks about his past as if has been a long time ago, he never said it explictly, but that's the impression I get
It may have been changed in later releases... Mine is one of the early, pre-Dark Elf printings. The passage in question is right before Drizzt gets jumped by the yeti. It says something about his eyes aren't great in daylight because he lived for more than two centuries in the Underdark. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 03 Jan 2007 : 23:07:43
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Originally posted by Enialus Meliamne
Normally, I read them as I buy them...The compulsion to read chronologically, only applies to the Realms changing books that I am about to have the complete collection of...
You see, I couldn't even do that much...I just read whatever trilogy interests me more. 
By the way, these Drizzt discrepancies are hilarious. I knew about the age inconsistancy, but never knew about the Ched Nasad one (I do actually have an old Crystal Shard book, but it was the first FR book I ever read and only read it once)! However, I fail to see how making Drizzt younger somehow also made him "cooler". |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Ranin
Seeker
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Posted - 04 Jan 2007 : 04:13:03
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| I'm not used to reading any sort of books without any order. Salvatore does explain what happened in previous novels during the following novel, but I like the anticipation of getting to the nest book in order. The worst thing is trying to read Paths of Darkness without order. I could'nt imagine doing it, since so many exciting things happened in sequence. |
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