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Summary: Starts off slow but picks up steam
Review: Wel I've read Spine of the World and it was a interesting book. After reading about 7 to 10 books about Drizzt (who is my favorite character in the Forgotten Realms) I'm glad to take a break from him. Wulfgar is a good character and I was glad to see a book about him. the story of Wulfgar and him trying to fight his demons and live a normal life again plus trying to find himself and find out who he truely is. he finds himself a new love and a job(such as it is) and destroys it all in trying to run a way and hide his problems in a bottle. this book shows him in a different light and not as the hero that we all know and love, it shows how his time in the Abyss has changed him. It was well written and I enjoyed every minute of it.
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Summary: Slow, hard to make it through
Review: Usually, Salvatore can pull me into his stories, but Wulfgar's wallowing is not something that I could stomache. I love the high action, scimitar twirling and dynamic antics that I've come to expect from Salvatore. Personally, I'd rather have seen Wulfgar stay dead and keep me from trying to wade through page after page of self pity and drunkenness.
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Summary: Suprisingly dark from Salvatore!
Review: Spine of the World picks up from the end of Silent Blade, and was a suprisingly dark story. The reader gets to see the trusted, and tortured hero Wulfgar coming to terms with the apparent shambles that his life has become. Drunk, and disorderly, and becoming increasingly violent, I had to wonder if this may be Wulfgar's last stand. His violence soon costs him the only home that he is known in the city of Luskan, and he is expelled. Wulfgar, and his traveling companion/Drow spy Morik are soon accused of attempting to murder an old friend, and what follows makes the torture scene in Braveheart look tame! Wulfgar, and Morik manage to escape, and move on to a very different future, and one that I could not stop reading. Salvatore really explores the depths of his characters in Spine of the World, and yet I sorely missed Drizzt save for the periodic diary entires. It was an excellent read, and I plan to read it again. Just give it a chance, and I am sure that you will not be disappointed in this very different story from the Forgotten Realms. Enjoy!!!
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Summary: Finally...
Review: Salvatore writes a more believable character! It's basically the story of Wulfgar's redemption... and Spine starts out kind of slowly, but picks up eventually. The story's conclusion is better than expected, and sets up the next installment nicely. Wulfgar's transformation in this story is so well-written that the reader can easily relate to his turmoil, unlike Drizzt's character that has become almost condescending in his soap-box diary entries. If Salvatore can't come up with any more ways to develop the dark elf, then it's time to get rid of the character before he becomes as stale and one-dimensional as Cattie-brie has always been.
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Summary: wulfgar
Review: silent blade helped salvatore recover from the awful passage to dawn. spine of the world made that return of brilliance definate. a return to an intimate relationship with the characters, as in the best book, sojourn.
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Summary: Best since Starless night
Review: Salvatore has matured as a writer, and it shows with this book. He has found a way to combine the biting edge that is his descriptive battle scenes with a deeper look into the characters that shape my favorite universe. The story was not predictable and gave me that "I can't go to sleep! I must read on!!" feeling. You know a book is good when it keeps you up reading to 2 a.m. And that Prisoners Carnival scene is so disturbingly well written, it will stay with you for weeks! 4 stars for the above...minus one star for the insufferble slow romantic scenes in between Wulfgars story. (it explains itself later, but OYE!)
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Summary: Just wait
Review: The beginning of this book is painful, expecially if you didn't like Wulfgar before. But don't give up on it. The last part of the book is simply amazing and will make your heart sing. You just have to push through the parts where you just want to smack Wulfgar across the face. Believe me, it's worth it.
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Summary: The Spine of the World is a waste of money & time
Review: I'm a loyal fan of this series, but was greatly disappointed with this book. A whole novel on romance, and Wulgar's boring problems. Come on!!! I just hope that Salvatore writes a better book than this one, cause I ready to never ready one of his novels again. I was so bored, that I almost gave up half way through the novel. Basically, you should avoid this novel!
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Summary: Not a masterpiece and yet a must for followers of the series
Review: I never wait too long for a new book in the seemingly neverending adventures of Drizzt Do'Urden, Cattie-Brie, Bruenor and Wulfgar. At First, I was quite disappointed when Wulfgar "returned" from the clutches of Errtu. I thought it to be a rather lame way of putting him back into the story. That was until I read this book. Instead of giving the usual hack'n'slash, typical to Salvatore, I found "Spine of the World" to be a quite refreshing and exciting story of a torn man sobering up.. "Spine of the World" joins two threads of stories into one in a simple, yet thrilling way. I couldn't stop reading until I found out what would become of Meralda, Biaste, Morik and of course of Wulfgar. This is a story of a broken man, closed up in his own inner torments, who finds the will through another, who shows him the way to overcome those tormenting memories. "Spine of the World" has shown me yet again that R.A. Salvatore is one of the best fantasy authors, if not...and keeps me waiting anxiously for "Servant of the Shard"
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Summary: What a disappointing sidetrack
Review: Unlike many readers, I came into the world of fantasy novels only a couple of years ago after spending much time with computer D&D games. (I am currently playing Icewind Dale.) Since I began reading so recently, I had the benefit of beginning with the Dark Elf Trilogy rather than the Icewind Trilogy. I quickly caught up to date and found myself impatiently awating the release of the Silent Blade. The Silent Blade ony confirmed my belief that Salvatore and his ongoing Drizzt Saga are incomparable! I can give no rational explanation about what happened in the Spine of the World? I was completly and thouroughly disappointed with this book which I bought in hard cover and dangled teasingly in front of my friends who would have to wait to read it. Salvatore should leave the romance novels to Harlequin and stick to his bread and butter! I hope he isn't tired of Drizzt because he masterfly left the stage set, previously the this book. I'm sure that the girl and Wulfgar's plight have significance down the road, but a whole book about a peasant girl, the guys who love her, the barbarian who gets her and a baby out of wedlock! This book could have been done with a whole different set of characters if he needed to write it. I literally had to make myself finish it out of loyalty. I think he could have slipped this whole episode in within another novel as a means of keeping up with Wulfgar and continued with the dark elves. If you have been faithfully following Drizzt, you need not bother with this novel. There shouldn't be anything in it that couldn't be told in a few pages of flashbacks and it certainly is not classic Salvatore. I wished I would have watched more football. None the less, I will still buy the next edition instantly before giving up on the MASTAH!
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