First book I saw of Salvatore's was The Thousand Orcs in 2002 right when it came out. I was like....9? My older brother bought it, and loved it and noticed that there were a whole bunch of books he needed to read before it and went out and bought all of those, Icewind Dale, Dark Elf Trilogy, Cleric Quintet, War of the Spider Queen etc...and I read them all as he bought them

Then he abandoned the series after The Two Swords and I have bought everything since, Transitions, Neverwinter, Sellswords, and now Sundering I need to get. I basically took all his books and claimed them as my own, and he doesnt care either.