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Lord_Of_Québec
Wed, 23rd Apr '03, 10:42pm
hello, I'm a (or I was since I've finished IWD II...sigh...) big fan of IE games and I want to begin to read "D&D" based book, but their are soooo many book, I pretty lost can you suggest me something, that I'll could like?

I love all of the IE game
Also love LOTR (who didn't?)
I also love story that's not the over used " Good vs evil, good win "
I like story with good character, a good plot twist...

PS: I'm not new here, since I have to re-register... I don't know why but when I have updated my profile, I couldn't logg they saided that my password was wrong, and either of my old or new e-mail is known as " register " shess...
I was "Dungeon_Master"

Rathanel
Thu, 24th Apr '03, 1:39am
Although it's not technically set in the Forgotten Realms (or in any way, really) Dragonlance's Chronicles and Legends series are what every novel of that type aspires to be. Compelling story, well-developed characters, full use of the expansive world, and so on.

If you decide to stick with Forgotten Realms, Salvatore's novels pretty much set the mark for FR, in much the same way as Legends and Chronicles do for DL (although they aren't quite as well-developed [more of an action-oriented style]). Ed Greenwood is another good author in the FR, especially his Elminster books. The Harper Series (not sure if they've been broken up or not, but they used to be labeled as such) offers a wide array of talented authors and interesting characters.

Beyond the D&D realm, Raymond E. Feist, C. S. Friedman, Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind are all solid authors.

Just some suggestions.

Lord_Of_Québec
Thu, 24th Apr '03, 1:43am
thx, kinda weird it's been some time since I've post this and Taluntain (not sure about his name sorry tal^^) hasn't make a reply to buy those book at Sorcerer's Shop...

PS: do you know if those authors have translate their novel in foreing language like french?

Rathanel
Thu, 24th Apr '03, 1:50am
I'm fairly certain that Jordan will have, though I wouldn't swear to it. Assuming that DL and FR in general have been translated, then I am sure that the specific titles I mentioned will also have been translated.

Perhaps perusing the publisher's website(s) and Amazon would yield the languages they have been translated into?

[EDIT: Oh, and buy at the Sorcerer's Place shop!]

Taluntain
Thu, 24th Apr '03, 3:18pm
Well, France has their own Amazon branch and since I'm not affiliated with it it'd be pretty pointless for me to tell you to go buy from SP. (Since I assumed you would buy from the French Amazon, not the US, UK or DE branches that SP is affiliated with.) But if for some reason you want to: http://www.sorcerers.net/Books/index.htm ;)

And you should have contacted me about your login details, not registered a new name. I'm closing down this new one and mailing you the login details for the old one.

Nick The Friendly Goth
Thu, 24th Apr '03, 3:50pm
Well these aren't based on D&D well yes they are in a way...any way I suggest the legend of the five rings series there are eleven books in the series the first seven are each based on a clan and the last four are based on the Emperor's children... very good books I highly recommend them...