Forgotten Realms-Drizzt Do'Urden

RaistlinMagere · 04-22-2006, 02:49 PM

-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...

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-26-2006, 12:27 AM

I've read them. Entertaining, but I wouldn't say they are truly good.

Mark of Cenla · 04-28-2006, 04:32 PM

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.

Jabberwock · 08-01-2006, 02:05 PM

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.

The Gaffer · 08-01-2006, 05:33 PM

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?

***Tessar*** · 09-26-2006, 05:04 PM

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.

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-26-2006, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Gaffer

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?

Other way around.

Mark of Cenla · 10-05-2006, 07:16 PM

I like Salvatore enough to seek out and read some of his other series besides the Drizzt books. Peace.

**Nurvingiel** · 10-22-2006, 03:48 PM

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.

The Gaffer · 10-25-2006, 05:08 AM

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.

04-22-2006, 02:49 PM	#1
RaistlinMagere Sapling Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 4	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...

04-26-2006, 12:27 AM	#2
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I've read them. Entertaining, but I wouldn't say they are truly good. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-28-2006, 04:32 PM	#3
Mark of Cenla Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: central Louisiana Posts: 105	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. __________________ Mark Wellman ><>

08-01-2006, 02:05 PM	#4
Jabberwock Enting Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Canadian temporarily in USA. Posts: 55	... 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.

10-05-2006, 07:16 PM	#8
Mark of Cenla Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: central Louisiana Posts: 105	I like Salvatore enough to seek out and read some of his other series besides the Drizzt books. Peace. __________________ Mark Wellman ><>

08-01-2006, 05:33 PM	#5
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	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?

09-26-2006, 05:04 PM	#6
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	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.

10-25-2006, 05:08 AM	#10
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	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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