Pushing LJ's posting limits... with a post about books. :)

[tek2way]

I finished R.A. Salvatore's Dragonslayer's Return tonight. As dlyman29 said, it's easily his best work. I absolutely loved this story. I wish he could do more like it. I wouldn't want to see more sequels per se, but I always love the time/dimension displaced traveller stories, moreso when they involve fantasy elements. Now, I think I'm going to read Neil Gaiman's Coraline next. I should be done with that by Thursday. After that, I'm going to finish Ian Irvine's Dark is the Moon and The Way Between the Worlds. After that, I believe I have some Thomas Covenant stuff by Stephen Donaldson to read. :)

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[brittletears.livejournal.com]

I suggest Aurian by Maggie Furey.

:-D

told ya so

[a1057soul.livejournal.com]

;-)

If you haven't gotten to them yet, the new generic "Dungeons and Dragons" series that Wizards has put out are pretty good. There are five so far: The Savage Caves (http://www.wizards.com/catalog/product.asp?88220), The Living Dead (http://www.wizards.com/catalog/product.asp?88230), The Oath of Nerull (http://www.wizards.com/catalog/product.asp?882400000), City of Fire (http://www.wizards.com/catalog/product.asp?882500000), and The Bloody Eye (http://www.wizards.com/catalog/product.asp?178520000) with several others plotted and soon to come out (about a 2-3 month gap between each).

They're not a "series" per se, kinda what the Forgotten Realms "Harpers" series was, except the main characters of these books are the ones from the PHB, DMG and other core Rulebooks: Redgar the Fighter, Ember the Monk, Hennet the Sorcerer, Jozan the Cleric of Pelor, Lidda the halfling Rogue, Krusk the half-orc Barbarian, Alhandra the Paladin, etc... with various players in a one shot book... they're short - usually about 200 pages or so, but they're all by one author - T.H. Lain. Basically a novelization of the 3e ruleset but not hocking specific modules like TSR did with the original Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms series...

Well written in a Salvitorian type style (descriptive but action oriented) and provide great real time type examples of the common 3e spells, skills, feats, items, etc... and how the classes function. I like them quite a bit so far (I finally see the uses for an gnome illusionist).

=-D

Dan