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Summary: Review Of The Dark Elf Trilogy
Review: In the Dark Elf Trilogy, we are introduced to famed drow renegade Drizzt Do'Urden. Raised in House Do'Urden,in the merciless underworld feared by many called the Underdark, young Drizzt is introduced to the cruel and evil ways of the dark elves, a race long banished from the surface of Toril by their surface Elven cousins. During his upbringing, the young black elf realizes that there is something about his kin that is not at all like him. After a hard life of being told he is less than females, losing his father, and being stabbed in the back by fellow compainions at the drow fighting school, he sets off into the Underdark, bringing only his friend Guenwhyvar. Drizzt seems to be turning into a whole other person during his months in the Underdark. He befriends the deep gnomes, battles illithids, and fights his way all the way to the surface of Toril. On the surface world, Drizzt is feared by many. All the surface races seem to flee from the sight of a dark elf, and with good reason! He eventually becomes a ranger to the Lady Of The Forest, Mielikki, and heads north to what is called "The Land Of Rogues"... Icewind Dale. He befriends a young woman by the name of Cattie-Brie, and also makes a new friend in a gruff dwarf by the name of Bruenor Battlehammer. If you love fantasy adventures, with great battles and mystifying magic, The Dark Elf Trilogy is definitely a collection you will want to read.
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Summary: Excellent night books!
Review: Perfect for reading in the night. Just some fine books about the drow elf that I have come to love. You just feel sympathy for Drizzt, don't you? So sad. Some excellent battle scenes, good plot for a great trilogy, and possibly the best ranger of all time:Montolio. God he's good. Salvatore is a great storyteller. Unfortuanly, most of the new Drizzt books are declining, but this one is my favorite. Guenhvyar's first appearence too.
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Summary: Good story, poor writing
Review: Be warned, the story for this trilogy is good. BUT, it is written for an 8th grade audience. I have read ALL the popular fantasy over the last 15 years, and this is close to the most juvenile, which I think was Salvatores intent. Just be ready for writing that is best suited for 13 year old minds.
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Summary: The hardships of a drow
Review: This book(or books) were best books I have ever read. The content of Salvatores books were beautiful. The books were about a dark elf or drow who despises the way of his people. In his return, he leaves. He lives in the underground areas near the city for years until he leaves them and goes to the surface where he faces one hardship after another from people who stereotype him and his people. I think one of Salvatore's best skills as a writer are the fight scenes with Drizzt. Salvatore sucks you into the world so you get caught up with it all. In the words of Terry Brooks(more or less): "Salvatore can fashion a book so that you have to keep reading, even if its two in the morning, and even if you have to get up for work at five, and even if you are so tired you keep saying one more page thats all and you have 200 more pages to go"
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Great trilogy. You can see how Bob Salvatore's writing style has improved since the original Crystal Shard. Depiction of fighting scenes are awesome. You get a words-eye view of what's going on. Nobody does it better than Salvatore!
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Summary: R.A Salvatore is genius
Review: Robert Salvatore has capped my favorite authors list, along with Margeret Weis and Tracy Hickman. His novels are captivating and hard to put down once you start them. If you like any fantasy novels you'l love this one. I recommend all of his other novels also.
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Summary: Simply the best!
Review: The book is terrible, actually. The point is that when you pick it up you won't put it down too easily. I saw the book in the library one day and I took it home to see if it was any good. I hadn't heard much of it before. The next day I went to borrow the first book of Icewind-dale trilogy... I was hooked, I still am. The book tells about a very extraordinary drow (Dark Elf) - Drizzt Do'Urden -, who is born to the corrupted and chaotic city of Menzoberranzan. The drow are a vicious type of elves only struggling for their own purpose in a world of massmurder, backstabbing and advancing in life by any means possible, even taking pride and enjoying watching the light in your opponent's eyes die. This makes Drizzt sick and as a VERY EXTRAORDINARY drow he actually feels compassion for the innocent victims of the drow. This and many other things make him leave Menzoberranzan for, if not a better world then at least for peace of mind. This is the story of how he eventually leaves and a little of what happens then but I think it's one of the best books I've ever encountered if not the best. One of the reasons I love R.A Salvatore's way of writing is just the battles. Even though I read them as closely as I can I'm not always able to make sense on Drizzt's movements, that's right, he describes every single twitch and every single thought in Drizzt's mind. No other writer has ever captured me in book as Salvatore does. Another one is Drizzt himself. He's gorgeous. :) If english isn't your language I suggest you find the books in your own language, the battles are easier to understand. But otherwise, maybe you'll get hooked just like me. I'm on summer vacation, now where's my book?....
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Summary: Truely Awe Inspiring.
Review: Never in my life has a book, or rather an author been able to make me feel in the way the the dark elf books of R.A. Salvatore have. The first time i read the dark elf trilogy, my brother told me about them and gave me book one to read. After a few hours, my eyes hurting, i realized that this was no ordinary fantasy book. The intricacies of the characters, and the raw emotions hit me deeply. I was hooked. Since then i have read most of Salvatore's books, and never once was i dissatisfied. Mr. Salvatore has a way of writing so wonderful, that i have acutally shed tears, of pain and joy, shaken with rage, and felt lulled into a serenity. How does he do it?!? I will never know, but i refuse to stop until i own every book penned by this fabulous author.
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Summary: Entertaining, unique and tedious
Review: Previous to reading this book, I had not heard of Drizzt the dark elf, who had originated in Salvatore's mind and given life prior to this "prequel" novel. Given that, therefore, although the Dark Elf trilogy is chronologically beofre the other books, I had this feeling I had to understand the importance of who Drizzt was in order to completely get into the books. I suppose it is like the Star Wars prequel as well; the story means a little less if you did not know that Anakin would eventually be Darth Vader. Here, too, I found the story interesting but losing something because I have no concept of what this drow would become (had become?) in future (past?) novels. While many of the scenes in this novel are filled with excitement, action and suspense, when you read the entire trilogy at once, the repetitive pattern (shall I say formula?) that Salvatore follows becomes tedious and monotonous. I eventually found thinking sarcastically "Oh no, how ever will Drizzt get out of THIS hairy predicament?!" Drizzt's luck and improbable actions scenes make the novel seem somewhat hyperbolic at times. This is not to say that Salvatore has not written quite a lively and entertaining series. There are a lot worse fantasy books out there and I appreciated the well-planned development of the life of the drow. With all sorts of remarkable creatures and humourous interludes, the novel does the job of being interesting while unfortunately also not being very impressive.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: I was given this trilogy as a Christmas present, I had never read a fantasy novel before (save the ones I was forced to read in school and, of course, The Hobbit) so naturally I wasn't too interested. When boredom overtook me I decided to at least skim over it... I was hooked. Salvatore may not have the best editors and these may not be the best books ever written but he is a master of using imagery and goes beyond the bounds of standard archetypes. The pages come alive as you read them, and the fight scenes are by far the best I've read, he paints a clear picture in the mind of the reader and explores the characters in depth, so you relate to them. If you are a Salvatore fan already, this series, in my opinion, is the best (even better than Icewind Dale and Legacy of the Drow). If you have not read any of Salvatore's work but are interested, this is the place to start, this is where it all begins. But don't take my word for it, read it for yourself.
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