| A couple of years ago I was in the process of submitting a proposal to WOTC for an Open Call they held (Maiden of Pain book, guy who got it wrote complete shit that I wouldn't press upon my worst enemy). Part of this had me browsing their book forums and getting the lay of the land, as it were. One post was talking about the most annoying characters you'd run across in an FR novel. One guy said it was the two dwarves in the Cantical series (Ivan and Pikel). Bob popped in a couple of posts later, dropped a couple of lines of emo and then left. The next two pages of posts were basically of people going 'WTF?'. Asking around with a few people who'd been there a while basically summed it up with "Bob doesn't take criticism very well". I hope in the intervening years since then that he's been able to temper that a bit. Criticism in the MMO industry is thick enough to slice off and serve to your house guests.
Salvatore used to be good. He used to be very good. I read everything he wrote, Forgotten Realms or not. However, the turning point for me was the 3rd book in the demon series. The one where half the time it's Pony doing the Drizzt emo bit and the other half was Elbryan doing the Drizzt emo bit. Right...
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