Servant of the Shard takes place after Spine of the world, is all about Wulfgar, and is probably R.A. Salvatore's worst forgotten Realms novel, the Silent blade is the one that takes place first, a chronological listing can be found
here (chronological in order of writing, as the dark elf trilogy takes place before the icewind dale trilogy)
it also has the customary comments by Drizzt about life in general.
{edit}you can read servant of the shard without missing anything that happens in Spine of the World, but Spine has alot of relevance to Sea of Swords{/edit}
[ 07-18-2003, 10:25 AM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]