Yeah, I wouldn't say he's my favorite author but right now he's in the lower top ten. His books are the first Fogotten Realms books I've read so some of the stuff in them I feel a bit left out of the loop on, like piwafwi's (wtf are they, seriously). I think maybe I stayed away from his stuff mainly because he has so many books and I'd want to read them all if I got into just one.