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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 4603335" data-attributes="member: 40398">Right now I'm reading David Sedaris, who does not write fantasy, but for the past few months I've been mostly reconnecting with fantasy through books that I never read. I read Jack Vance's Compleat Dying Earth which was awesome, and several Terry Pratchett novels which are ever-hilarious. Tomorrow I'm headed to the library to pick up one of Howard's Conan books.Unfortunately, I've read a lot of D&D novels most of which were from the 2e era, because a friend gave me a boatload of them and I have this kind of OCD compulsion to read things I have no matter how much they suck. And I knew they sucked, even as a teen. Drizzt was mediocre during the first trilogy, but then his whining and moaning got painfully predictable. The only D&D novels that I'm not sorry that I read were written by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, who somehow make their D&D teen novels moderately entertaining.So I guess what I'm saying is that I also feel disconnected from much of the D&D world...but I don't think I've ever been really into in the first place. I've bought a lot of splat books, and will continue to do so in 4e, but I've never felt that all D&D products are some kind of coherent whole and that experiencing all of them is necessary to get THE D&D EXPERIENCE. If that makes any sense.TS</blockquote>