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Anyone read any of his stuff? If so, what do you think of it and what book would you recommend.
Any of his books in the Forgotten Realms series were enjoyable - just good old fashioned fantasy. He's one of my favorite Forgotten Realms authors.
His Drizzt the Dark Elf books are his finest work. I also enjoyed his Cadderly the Cleric books (not actual title - just go to Amazon.com and do some research and read the reviews by readers and take them with a grain of salt (as you should with mine - our tastes may differ).
That said, I haven't liked any of his books outside of Forgotten Realms - I really tried, but they just didn't do it for me. I wanted to like his Crimson Pirate one, but I put down the book after a couple of chapters - it was amatuerish and plain crappy.
The first book in his other series, the DemonWars, was better, but I really found myself finding something else to read.
Salvatore + Forgotten Realms = great fun
Other stuff, sadly just doesn't keep me interested.
His Drizzt the Dark Elf books are his finest work. I also enjoyed his Cadderly the Cleric books (not actual title - just go to Amazon.com and do some research and read the reviews by readers and take them with a grain of salt (as you should with mine - our tastes may differ).
That said, I haven't liked any of his books outside of Forgotten Realms - I really tried, but they just didn't do it for me. I wanted to like his Crimson Pirate one, but I put down the book after a couple of chapters - it was amatuerish and plain crappy.
The first book in his other series, the DemonWars, was better, but I really found myself finding something else to read.
Salvatore + Forgotten Realms = great fun
Other stuff, sadly just doesn't keep me interested.
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I'd have to second that. Also, don't bother with the Salvatore EQ book or the Star wars book. the first one sucks, the latter will just **** you off.
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I've only read the Icewind Dale trilogy and the one after (Homelands trilogy?). I found most of his characters to be foils, his villians largely forgettable and his only somewhat rounded character (Drizzt) to be tiresome after a couple books in. They're decent fluff and don't ask a lot of you to read them and I suppose they stand above most of the Forgotten Realms novels but, really, that isn't saying much.
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I'd have to second that. Also, don't bother with the Salvatore EQ book or the Star wars book. the first one sucks, the latter will just **** you off.
Salvatore didn't write the EQ book, he was the EIC type person. Scott Ciensien or something like that wrote it.
I have read all of Salvatore's realms books and they rocked. Although I;m sort of dissapointed. Some of the characters (cadderly/jarlaxle) rocked but it doesn't seem as though we will be seeing them again very soon. Although the new book features JArlaxle and Artemis, which should be fun.
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Homelands, exile, and sojourn were all good the icewindale trilogy was good but it had some slow spots and seemed far fetched in places but overall worth reading. Some of the other books about Drizzt are good but it seems like he is running out of things to do with the character because after all the stuff he has already done the only thing left to write about would be drizzt builds a space ship and goes to another planet or something.
I agree with the other comments about his writing outside of forgotten realms.
I agree with the other comments about his writing outside of forgotten realms.
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I've read all the Drizzt books except the latest one (The Two Swords?). They're really great, easy reads. Nothing too deep with any of them, but they're fun books. Sure, there are tons of cliches and stereotypes, but I still enjoyed them. The Crystal Shard was probably my favorite.
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I have read all most all of his books, D&D and others. I enjoyed most of them but they are my "Filler" books utill something better shows up on shelves :P
I love his writing but he did something unforgivable in one of the NJO star wars books. Killing an iconic character like that.
I have to disagree with the "lack of depth". Drizzit is a very deep character, harbouring many of the same fears and doubts that most of us have. He uses his pain as a way to propel himself to being better. Be a better person, or a better fighter, he's always pushing himself to live up to his ideals.
I think that this is one of the better written characters that I've come across. Not very transparent(other than the obvious story transparancies), very easy to get behind and "cheer" for(unlike some heros), and you could also even call him a good role-model(sort of).
I feel that Drizzit ranks up there with Raistlin as one of the better devloped characters in fantasy literature(the whole Heros of the Lance group was devloped well, but not as fleshed out as the twins, but that's because of the number of books that Weis and Hickman put out for them).
I think that this is one of the better written characters that I've come across. Not very transparent(other than the obvious story transparancies), very easy to get behind and "cheer" for(unlike some heros), and you could also even call him a good role-model(sort of).
I feel that Drizzit ranks up there with Raistlin as one of the better devloped characters in fantasy literature(the whole Heros of the Lance group was devloped well, but not as fleshed out as the twins, but that's because of the number of books that Weis and Hickman put out for them).
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