I like most people have a soft spot for "Mr. two-scimitars, forest green cloak and owner of I must say the most powerful figurine of wonderous power ever to see print in any of D&D worlds", but Mr. Salvatore's other works like his "Crimson Shadow" series are far better, as far as I'm concerned. The best of his works is by far "The Spearwielder trilogy", The Woods out Back is one of those stories you just get into and have to see how it ends, no matter what time you need to get up for work in the morning, you just keep plowing through page after page.