Fable III

do you have to find them all when you go there to defeat faraday or can you go back there again when you want?

You can go back to all areas after you beat Faraday.

ok thanks

no mention at all about what part of the map the "sparking robot in an alley" even is

The alley is connected to the Canal area. I believe there are two separate parts to the canal. The alley with the Sparkling Robot is in the part of the canal where you DID NOT see the robotic dogs for the first time.

This achievement is glitched for me. I went back to clockwork island to complete huxley's quest. I unlocked the door to pick up 5th book and it tells me i've got 1/5. I have all 5 collected in the prison.

The Faraday books are on Clockwork Island. General Turner's are in the prison. They are two different achivements :)

Its the same glitch at me like Zombie4EvilDead had it. I have all of faradays books in the prison and no achievement

Worked for me. I collected those books AFTER i have done ALL quests...

Boss Complex: The sparking robot in the alley is part of the main path, no divergence needed. It's right where you enter the alley and can't be destroyed like the other broken robots you'll come across in the next building. As you follow the story path down through the roof and the metal walkways you go into a canal. From the canal you enter a building. As you exit the building the sparking robot should be right there.

You can pick up book IV before free roam. After you use the switch at book three and clear out the room, book IV is out the exit on some crates.

I have all books but not the first one, I can't go back to it. I can't jump downstairs, there is no message to do so :(
If someone catch the book in my game, may I unlock the achievement ?

Glitched achievements without patches should require a refund.

glitched for me too....

Lame glitch --"
going to speedrun my second playthrough, meh.

I actually picked up all the books except the one in the locked room when I first went to the island. I went back later and got the last book when I was collecting the components for Huxley. I even saved the game and quit a few times and turned off my console. No problems, achievement unlocked! It does take a bit for it to unlock, the diary needs to be read to you before it pops. Demon Doors DID glitch on me though... I hate glitches. And this game has random ones for everyone!

all of the book achievements glitch if you play co-op in the middle of the collection.

So since the game is now free for Gold members does this mean this achievement will be fixed? Or am I still fuc*ed and need to start over?

you'll put this in the past much faster if you just start over. that's what I'll be doing soon.

At least being free it will help people who need the MP achieves.

Great guide. Thanks!

So if you have all pages but no achievement you'll have to do the entire game again..?
This game is so amazing but it has way too many critical bugs, bugs that means you won't get the achievement despite doing all the work should be absolutely banned, I hate Unobtainables but these are even worse because there's no way of knowing if it's gonna happen again so you could essentially be playing through the entire thing again just to get the same problem ... I already encountered the gender swap glitch right before finishing the base game now I'm down to 6 achievements in the DLC & this sh!t happens ... this takes a 5star rating down to 0.5 of course I'm just kidding I would never rate a game based on the achievements but my God this is soooo annoying, so much so that I'm not even gonna bother right now instead I'm gonna see if all the others achievements will pop (especially the feared Demon doors that seem to cause many problems) before even considering to do the whole freaking thing for the 3rd freaking time

EDIT:
IF THIS HAPPENED TO YOU PLEASE READ BELOW:
So having seen all the dairies on the pedestals & having no achievement & even following a guide so I know I picked up every single one I gave up after searching for help that all said "START THE ENTIRE GAME OVER AGAIN" thankfully I knew that there is other achievements that might glitch so instead moved in to Huxley's robot parts & surprise surprise when I came to the location with 2 parts I searched the room & picked up Diary part 5 & what do you know the achievement popped so if other encounter this problem my advise would be to search through the locations of all 5 diaries again even though you know you have collected all it would seem one or quite possibly more can glitch so you need to collect them again, now I had left the island & came back to start the Robot parts so you might need to let some time pass before you search the locations again but of course I can't say that for sure.
Any way best of luck

Or you can fast-travel to any of them.

i have all of these except number 2 which is not showing up where u say......any ideas???

Found them all but this glitched for me

Great video guide! I haven't seen this guy make a bad one

Horrible video guide! I haven't seen this guy make a good one yet. After book 1 he goes directly to book 2 w/o any refrence to how he got there. WTF? Can someone please post a GOOD & USEFULL video?

I have to agree with the last comment. You just immediately jump from lever 2 to 3? no walkthrough at all.

Had trouble finding lever 3 haha