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Summary: terrible
Review: I first came across R.A. Salvatore's novels in my early teens, when my late grandfather, a fantasy nut, recommended the Dark Elf trilogy. I tore through those books. For some reason, I had no interest in reading Salvatore's other books after that - in fact I remember being confused at the sheer number of books he put out in the years after the Dark Elf series.So last year a good friend suggested that I read the Icewind Dale series, and I figured, What the hell? I bought the collector's version and got about 100 pages in before giving up. In a nutshell, this series - or at least the god-awful first book - struck me as shameful rip-off of Savage Sword of Conan back-issues, all propped up with enough stereotypical fantasy characters and uninteresting sub-plots. I know a lot of people love this series, but I found the writing to be horrible and the plot sub-par at best.
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Summary: THE MOST AMAZING TRILOGY!!!
Review: Definitely a great fantasy epic and one of my personal favorites, The Icewind Dale Trilogy- The Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver, and The Halfling's Gem, brings to life the story of a good hearted dark elf ranger named Drizzt Do'Urden and his adventures in the northwestern reaches of the World of Faerun. The books are so incredibly well written that the reader feels that they have been transported to another universe and are actually present among the characters, seeing what they see, feeling what they feel, sensing what they sense. RA Salvatore has truly outdone himself and has presented us with a masterpiece of literature the likes of which we have seen only in JRR Tolkien's work and in authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends trilogies. Duty, honor, bravery, magic, dragons and heroes are all about. A great trilogy indeed and a "must read" along with RA Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy!!!
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Summary: A Shocker, author to rival J.R.R. Tolkien
Review: I'm one of those people who goes to a book store and buys what he thinks looks cool, reads a chapter sets the book down and never reads it agian, such was the case with this book, untill I read the first chapter, all through the next day I kept thinking about it, how awe inspiring the writing was, and the amazing power of the words, not to mention an incredible story line and well just plain awesomeness of the characters, so I picked it up again the next night, and the next, and the next, soon I was staying up until 3:00 am reading, all the while saying "Just one more page and I'm done" then Salvatore throws in a HUGE twist and I just cant put it down untill im ready to just drop dead. The book worth buying, ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!! If I could buy one book in my life it would be this one! It also introduced me to a completly new world that, I swear I have read almost every book based on the Forgotten Realms, and any book by R.A. (robert) Salvatore. As for the others in the series buy or check out as many as possible, I am just pissing myself waiting for the book coming out this october "The Twin Blades" the third instalment in the "Hunter's Blades" series. This book made me completly obsessed with fantasy novels, If you are even SEMI interested in fantasy books this book is A DEFINATE READ. But but but, im done praising the book, There are some cons :'(. First the amount of typos in the book, doesn't really matter but you will notice them almost certainly, next the journals while cool at first will get annoying as they reapeadly point out the same things just in different ways read some but not all of them. That's really all, I could'nt praise it anymore if I tried. If anyone knows where I could contact Salvatore I would greatly appreciate it if you emailed me at Forsaken_Raver@yahoo.com
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Summary: A good enough read....
Review: "3 stars?", you ask. "Why?" Several actually. One, it took me a week & a half to get through the Dark Elf trilogy & a month & a half to get through this one. There just wasn't an overpowering urge to see what happens next. It's not exactly Salvatore's fault though, although I've read better authors. He created some great characters, especially Drizzt & Enteri, but the storyline had no urgency or sense of discovery. The main problem is, and maybe I need to read a book by someone else to tell for certain, but the Realms just isn't a very interesting place. It's just not infused with magic like Krynn of the Dragonlance books(not that I've seen one that is)or the originality of others.
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Summary: Horrid...
Review: These books were so stupid. I don't know what the fuss has always been about. The world is one-dimensional, unbelievable and paper-dollish; the dwarf is so cliched as to be laughable; Cattie Brie is by far the dumbest name and most annoying character in the annals of fantasy; the barbarian is (again) cliched and ridiculous; the halfling (as usual since Tolkien) is absurd and annoying; the battle scenes are boring, unrealistic and go on forever; the villain is like something out of a bad Saturday morning cartoon. Just pathetic. I started reading the Dark Elf trilogy, dying to know why everyone thinks Salvatore is so great. I couldn't even finish the first book. Just horrid...
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Summary: good story, pathetic author
Review: This is a great story, it is a shame it is written so very very badly. The authors "style", and I use the word style loosely, is painfully inadequate, his descrptions are woefully incomplete, especially in battle scenes. I read a lot of fantasy books, this is the first and last I will read from Salvatore.
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Summary: Didn't anyone teach you what poor writing is?
Review: Doesn't anyone remember their english teachers telling them to show instead of just telling? Salvatore uses a 3rd person perspective that knows every character's thoughts, but they're not actual thoughts, they're just statements of what the characters know. Example: "Drizzt, by far the more battle-seasoned of the two, quickly discerned the mode of attack that offered the best chance of success." This sentence is vague, uses too many words and doesn't tell us anything about what the character is actually doing. I don't recommend you read the over 1,000 pages of sentences like these. Drizzt is about to attack a patrol of giants and we take a moment to hear, once again, how great Drizzt is and what he knows. This writing is immature at best. Read George R.R. Martin's Fire and Ice series and then you'll see what real writing is.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book was great! Great storyline and awesome characters.If you liked this book you should read all the other R.A. Salvatore books. This book was about the famous Drizzt Do'Urden and his friends. Drizzt and his friends live a good life in Icewind Dale. Until Akar Kessell found a magic crystal called The Crystal Shard and thats where the story begins.
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Summary: Blender with a heart!
Review: I recomend all of the Drizzt Dourden adventures to anyone who enjoys Dungeons and dragons or any role playing games. I have read all of the books excluding "The Lone Drow", which I have just ordered.I do have a few gripes Mr. Salvatore. I find the overly descriptive fight scenes tiresome. I often get lost in the author's attempt to describe Drizzt's every acrobatic move in a fight.I get the point.He is a blender with a heart! The other is his arch nemesis Artemis Entreri. I found myself wanting to know more about him then the main character. After Artemis and Jarlaxle go off on their own , I find myself wanting to read more about their adventures than Drizzt's. Please write A LOT more about Artemis and Jarlaxle.
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Summary: Great
Review: This is a great read, i think that it is better than Lord of the rings because of the great desribtion of battle, which J.R.R toilken lacked heavily, good buy, if you are are Salvatore fan there is no nead for me to tell you to not buy this book
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