04-22-2006, 02:49 PM | #1 |
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Forgotten Realms-Drizzt Do'Urden
-Anyone read the forgotten realms books about drizzt? i've read 2 and am in the middle of another and wondered if anyone else has read it...
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04-26-2006, 12:27 AM | #2 |
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I've read them. Entertaining, but I wouldn't say they are truly good.
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04-28-2006, 04:32 PM | #3 |
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I read them all and loved them. I was kinda sad when I finished the last one. I will read them all again someday. Peace.
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08-01-2006, 02:05 PM | #4 |
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I think more people have read these books than would like to admit it. They're not great writing. They are, however, everything a lot of teenage males seems to enjoy in a fantasy book. At least that's the way it appears to me. Younger males love how the main character is an outsider (indentify with him), how he kicks butt, etc. I read about 10 of the books in my late teens and early 20s. Like I said, they're not great, but they are a very good introduction to fantasy, a sort of stepping stone to bigger and better things within the genre for a lot of younger readers. So, good on you Mr Salvatore.
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08-01-2006, 05:33 PM | #5 |
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Is this books about the character out of Baldur's Gate? If so, wow, the book of the PC game.. a new kind of spin off. Or was it the other way round?
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09-26-2006, 05:04 PM | #6 |
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Hmmm... the Drizzt books. A bit hard to pin down, for me.
I've read maybe four or five of them, and I enjoyed them. If I want pure, high-fantasy, let-your-dreams-run-wild kind of fantasy, I'll read Salvatore. He is excellent with battle scenes--I think the only battle scene I've liked more than any one of R.A's was the one Robert Jordan did at the end of book 8 in Wheel of Time. However for 'serious' fantasy... the kind of stuff I could read over and over, and pull new things from every time, I don't count Salvatore very high on my list. But that's okay--he's a 'flavor' of fantasy, and I do very much enjoy his books. |
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10-05-2006, 07:16 PM | #8 |
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I like Salvatore enough to seek out and read some of his other series besides the Drizzt books. Peace.
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Ha, yeah, me too. The only thing I know about Drizzt the famous Drow ranger is when your party meets him in the woods in Baldur's Gate II.
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10-25-2006, 05:08 AM | #10 |
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I ended up killing him. HA! He's supposed to help you duff up Bodhi but turned hostile on me in the middle of her lair. I guess I must've hit him with some area-effect thingie by mistake.
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