I've never read the FR series, or any other based upon a RPG (at least, that I'm aware of), but I was doing the same thing with the Star Trek novelizations and books, right from when they first started to be published. I finally reached a point years ago where, though I still love Star Trek, I just didn't want to spend anymore money on its paperbacks and its associated non-fiction works. With all of its multi-verses, it got to the point where I would either have to just read Star Trek novels all the time to keep pace with the publication, or I stopped completely because I was never going to be able to keep track of all the tangents.
One of these days I'll start one of subsequent non-OST story arcs and read through it, but I'll never go back to trying to read/collect all of them.
It's rather liberating to give up an obsession.
