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Drizzt and the dark elf trilogy

Just put the trilogy on order at the bookshop. I remember reading Homeland when i was a kid and at that point i thought it was an amazing book and i just never got around to reading the others.

I am looking frorward to it.
 
appologies for the repeat of my self in an odd way. my excuse is not enough sleep and too little food.
 
I love the dark elf trilogy. Drizzt is one of my all time favorite heroes.

I like this particular trilogy the best. Homeland, Exile and Sojourn just have something that is missing in the other Drizzt books. I'd love to see a book where Drizzt gets to relax and enjoy life for a nice long spell, but I guess that would pretty much be fanfic. LOL.

~Witch
 
my favorites will have to be The Legacy and The Crystal Shard. The Crystal Shard was the first "drizzt book" i read, and it changed my life. it might sound cheesy i know but it did. I've read all of the books except the Hunter's Blade Trilogy, i kind of stopped my whole R.A. Salvatore craze right after Sea of Swords came out. who knows, maybe I'll get back into them.
 
I've read all of the books except the Hunter's Blade Trilogy, i kind of stopped my whole R.A. Salvatore craze right after Sea of Swords came out. who knows, maybe I'll get back into them
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You really should, they are very good. I pre-ordered the newest one Promise of the Witch King, which was shipped today, can't wait to read it!;-)
 
Ugh, no thanks. If I hear even the slightest report that he's softening up Artemis Entreri, I swear I'll ritually brun those book while reciting fatal curses over Salvatore's name.

I stopped after Paths of Darkness. RAS' writing started going downhill with the Legacy Quartet, and Paths of Darkness showed no signs of turning that around. While RAS' book were never fantastic literature and only a quick entertaining read I do have some criteria for my light reading. It has to be entertaining for instance, and Paths of Darkness lost much in the entertainment department if you ask me. My reading energy is better placed elsewhere.

The Icewind Dale trilogy was good and fascinating because it described something no one had seen in the setting before. It has resulted in most of my teenaged role-players wanting to play Chaotic Good drow rangers dual wielding a pair of scimitars.

The Dark Elf Trilogy was good because of the exact same reason. A description of a corner of the FR setting no one had really seen before. Awesome, and now far too many kids who hav read the DE Trilogy think they're experts on drow - which they're not until they've read the source books for the setting.

Legacy started out promising, but I suppose the demand from WotC that RAS put out about a book/year without changing anything for real wore down the ideas. So it all ended up with a really sad a tragic loss of quality and entertainment. I weathered Paths of Darkness in the hopes that moving focus from Drizzt to others might help a bit, but no.

As for the Sell Swords? Let me know when you've read it, and then tell me if Arty is still the mean and evil bastard he has always been. If he isn't, I will have been right in my boykott.
 
oooh but Siege of Darkness was awesome. I read the damn book straight through. I could not put it down. Of course, it was all war and blood so...being me....of course!

Sea of Swords did dissappoint, but i think that the reason why many hard-core fans of the series found it that way was because it was no longer the entire cast of characters. I dont mean to spoil but just Drizzt and CattiBrie most of the time was a bit err...lousy.

Oh how I long for the days of the Crystal Shard, or Streams of Silver......ahhh......now that was magical.
 
CattiGuen said:
oooh but Siege of Darkness was awesome. I read the damn book straight through. I could not put it down. Of course, it was all war and blood so...being me....of course!
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Indeed, Siege had its good moments.

Sea of Swords did dissappoint, but i think that the reason why many hard-core fans of the series found it that way was because it was no longer the entire cast of characters. I dont mean to spoil but just Drizzt and CattiBrie most of the time was a bit err...lousy.
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Not my stand. I've been rooting for a break-up of the Companions for some time now. You can't keep writing good books with exactly the same char gallery. RAS is proof of that. I had such great hopes for the Paths books where they were all split up - but they disappointed horribly. Take note, my greatest gripe is the uniformity of the plots all the way through and the complete lack of any sort of development character-wise. But seriously, let's kill off a character, oh wait no, let's bring him back... that really made me sigh exasperatedly. Here was a good oppotunity to spread some dissentment amongst the Companions with their different reactions to a character death, but no, said character had to return and then they could all unite again, thus bringing everything back to status quo and making the books unworthy of the time spent on them.

Pity really.

Oh how I long for the days of the Crystal Shard, or Streams of Silver......ahhh......now that was magical.
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Oh how I long for the days of finding spelling and grammar errors, and plain bad quality writing in the Icewind Dale Trilogy, that was some of the funniest entertainment I've had with RAS' books.
 
I've read all of the Drizzt books, starting with the Dark Elf Trilogy and I loved them! The only one I found slightly bad was The Two Swords, the last of the Hunter's Blade Trilogy. I loved the book, but the end kind of left much to be desired. Very few of the major plot lines were finshed up in the end of this trilogy and you are left with a longing for the next novel, and an irritated feeling of a story incomplete.
 
I am currently reading SIlver Streams the second in the Icewind Dale trilogy, the first one was definetly good and now the second has started out well, i would recommend them though i havnt made it through the last half of the 2nd and or any of the 3rd yet. I just like these types of stories though.
 
I was really disappinted in the Paths of Darkness as well. With the other books, I would rip through them in about 2 days, but each of these books took me several weeks to finish because they just didn't grab me. Like Jem said, there was nothing really new in them.

I have the first two from the Hunter's Blade Trilogy, but haven't read them yet. I guess I'm just putting off the inevitable disappointment I feel I will find in them.
 
As for the Sell Swords? Let me know when you've read it, and then tell me if Arty is still the mean and evil bastard he has always been. If he isn't, I will have been right in my boykott.
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Just finished it last night. Entreri did go through a bit of "character development" in this one, but I still enjoyed it. I wouldn't say "he's gone soft" or anything, but in the last few books he's had a few things happen that I think have made him begin to take a look at his life. I think the next book Road Of The Patriarch is when we will see what actually comes of it though.
 
Hmmm, doesn't sound like he'll remain Arty much longer then. Taking a look at his life is usually a bad thing for the bad guys to do. Tsk tsk tsk.
 
my favourite is Sojourn, the second Drizzt book. It had character development, a strong plot and, most importantly, i couldn't put the damned thing down...
 
Oh yes, The Dark Elf Trilogy was most definitely the strongest of RAS' series. His writing had improved and the story hadn't gotten old yet. And it had evil drow :D I'm a sucker for evil :p I must say I prefer Homeland to the others though. Insight into drow society and much delicious evilness was a welcome thing. Exile was also good because it brough insight into the wilds of the Underdark and the Deep Gnomes who by the way are awesomely cool creatures. Sojourn, while good didn't appeal as much to me as the others. Probably because it was the old cliché about an outcast learning new ways. Drizzt on the surface in the IWD Trilogy was cool, Drizzt in the Underdark was also cool, but the transition between the two just wasn't quite as good as the beginning of the trilogy had 'promised'. It's a clichéed story to write that RAS took on in Sojourn, so I'm not entirely surprised that it was harder to keep that book up to par. Still an enjoyable read though.
 
Vorian said:
my favourite is Sojourn, the second Drizzt book. It had character development, a strong plot and, most importantly, i couldn't put the damned thing down...
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Sojourn is the third of the Dark Elf Trilogy

Exile is the second.

both killer though :p :D
 
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