Need help with the Drizzt books, with only a vague idea of where I left off.

[Man0warr]

Cleric Quintet is pretty good, Danica is awesome.

I liked the last 2 Sellswords books as well, they are based off a pretty famous DnD campaign.

[Zehn - Vhex]

I just really wish I'd stopped reading after Passage to Dawn. Forgotten Realms has really, well...gotten pretty terrible lately.

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I mean, it's not bad bad, but I think the Cyric the Mad series was the last good series I enjoyed from end to end. The War of the Spider Queen had promise but after book two it went downhill fast. The whole spellplague thing was pretty bleh.

They've done off with pretty much all the good villains too. The Zhent's are a a shadow of their former self, the shadovar and phaerim are pretty much all but wiped out, the red wizards haven't done shit in years. The Drow are still recovering from their failed assault on the surface. Halaster put in his cameo appearance for the decade.

What's left besides the B-list and brought-for-one-terrible-fucking-series villains (here's looking at you threat from the sea Mel "I am fucking terrible at this stuff" Odom)?

Ah well...

[Phaint]

Originally Posted by Zarcath

I don't remember where I stopped at, either Sea of Swords or The Thousand Orcs.

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Last thing I remember was some sort of siege and Drizzt was off on his own behind the lines murdering shit left and right. I really hated the Wulfgar book, especially the whole marriage shit and the kid. Seriously, fuck Wulfgar. And then he made Drizzt all emo and shit. I really dreaded any chapter that was devoted to Wulfgar, it was so bad, like audible groans bad. I haven't read the most recent books but unless Drizzt finally hooks up with Cattiebrie I don't plan on reading any more of his books.

He does


I've read every all the books in the drizzt books and have enjoyed reading all of them with the exception of The Pirate King. I don't know something about that book just didn't feel right reading.

The ones with Artemis and Jarlaxle(The Sellswords Triology) are by far my favorite ones. You guys that stopped before The Sellswords Trilogy should at least go back and pick them up.

[Jukax]

I loved the Icewind Dale Trilogy, but didn't like any of Salvatore's followups.

Other Forgotten Realms works I really enjoyed (almost exclusively the early novels):

The Avatar Series
The Moonshae Trilogy (followup Druidhome Trilogy was so-so)
The Finder's Stone Trilogy
The Harper's series (some were mediocre, but The Ring of Winter or anything by Elaine Cunningham made up for them)

Pretty much anything written since the mid 90's seems to be crap, unfortunately.

[Kuriin]

I'm on Legacy of the Drow (read all the ones prior) and I have to say the only thing I find redundant is:

"Drizzt lets loose a flurry of attacks with his scimitar!". I swear...how many times can Salvatore write this and not grow tire of the exact same wording?

[Zehn - Vhex]

After the homeland trilogy he knew that we'd buy every book no matter what he wrote so he kinda phoned it in after awhile. You can only write, "it looks like a dance!" so many times before it gets silly.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I feel the need to recommend Heroes Die by Matt Stover, for anyone that liked the action in Drizzt but wants something more grown up and bad ass and generally better in every way.

Caine > Drizzt

[Kuriin]

The Drizzt books are entertaining and very detailed; I never said they were bad. It's just redundant how he uses the same description of attacks over and over. But, like I said, I enjoy the books thoroughly.


edit: Thanks for heads up on the Caine series -- will check that out.

[gavinrad]

Eh, I despise Drizzt. I've read as far as Sea of Swords, and I loved them until I realized it was the same boring ass emo Drizzt is in every single book.

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Honestly, Salvatore should have killed him off when he fought Ellifain, and then found some way to introduce her as a recurring or major character. No idea if it would have worked, but it would have been interesting at least.

Wulfgar, for as awkward as it was fitting him into the story, at least is a dynamic character who underwent development and changed significantly. Wulfgar, Jarlaxle, and Artemis are the only ones who really interest me, because they are the only ones who actually undergo any change.

[Kuriin]

Okay. I'm almost done with Legacy of the Drow -- on the final book in that quadrilogy, and I'm up at a question. Should I read Malazan or Paths of Darkness? I read on Amazon that Darkness is good.

[Kez]

Between the two choices, I'd go with option C. Order Heroes Die from Amazon. If you like that book, definitely shell out the cash for Blade of Tyshalle. Thats just my preference though. Theres a bunch of others here who would pimp reading Malazan next.

[Araxen]

I just finished the The Silent Blade and I'm wondering with all the Cadderly stuff that's been presented in the last two books should I just wait to read the others and read the Cleric Quintet now and then read the rest of the Drizzt books or just continue on to The Spine of The World?

As an aside, I liked the Silent Blade, but

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I'm just getting sick of Entreri and I hope it's finally finished off with him wanting to fight Drizzt 24/7. Oh well, I guess I'm just a little too excited to see Drizzt explore the world more and for him and Catti-brie to go back to Silverymoon. Well more so for Catti-brie to back and visit with Alustriel as I found chemistry between them interesting in Starless Night.

[Erumaron]

The Entreri character ends up $$, just stick it out. Oh, and I never read the Cadderly books which I kind of regret but it's not a huge part of the Drizzt series as far as I know.

[Araxen]

Heh, I'm gonna stick it out no doubt about it. I love these books they are really good. He puts more than enough carrots in front of me to make me have a hard time from putting the books down.

I went to the park one day last week to read and ending up staying out there 5 hours just reading. These books have me hooked like no other books have so far.

[Kuriin]

Waiting patiently for Paths of Darkness...ughh, I need my fantasy fix.