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Summary: wonderful story, great vocabulary, terrible technique
Review: This massive tome incorporates a whole series of books about the battle of a Forgotten Realms dwarf-kingdom, and specifically a number of great characters, with the wicked Drow of the Underdark.There's a lot of great adventure, and the characters are quite well developed. The author handles the emotional byplay with good credibility, and no one has yet painted as evocative a picture of the evil dark elves and the renegade they seek to bring back for sacrifice. So what's wrong? Simple: my head hurts after reading it. This is because Salvatore constantly falls prey to the shortcoming of weaker authors: he tells rather than shows sentiment. Thus, we are always clonked over the head with 'The character felt xxxx'. This is poor writing, and lazy; far better to show how the characters act, and let the reader infer their feelings from their actions and gestures and expressions and speech. I don't remember Salvatore doing this in the series about Drizzt's early life, so I'm not sure what happened, but the writing here is just plain amateurish despite Salvatore's obvious command of vocabulary. If this were a book with less great adventure, I'd have put it down after ten pages. As it is, it's still worth reading for the richness of the characters and the parts that touch on life in the Underdark. Just wear a helmet.
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Summary: Great Quartet
Review: This story is great if you've just read the Icewind Dale Trilogy and are hungering for more. The battle scenes are described in such detail it is as if (for the more imaginative) that you can see the battle unfolding. You are able to find out mre about Drizzt's past, and if you haven't read DE Trilogy then you will learn much more about Zaknafein. More interesting artifacts come into play, and toys once thought lost forever will be found again by different people. You will learn more about infernal creature's hierarchy if you don't play some version of D&D. Also, if in some RPGs you have met Do'Urden you will be surprised at the difference in his power in the book and power in the game (you thought he was easy to beat by throwing up a monster wall and shelling him? The machine doesn't give him credit)New characters and new traits in old ones will appear and make he story much more interesting.(To quote one of them, " Eeeee!")
-Taxdaybaby
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Summary: The legacy of the drow
Review: This was the best series of books describing the adventures of Drizzt and his companions. There is great description, inovation and action in each of the four books in the series. My favourite book was the siege of darkness, the characters are all superb, the draven battles with the drows are great, and Jarlaxe uses his ussual guile to come out on top.
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Summary: The legacy of the drow
Review: This was the best series of books describing the adventures of Drizzt and his companions. There is great description, inovation and action in each of the four books in the series. My favourite book was the siege of darkness, the characters are all superb, the draven battles with the drows are great, and Jarlaxe uses his ussual guile to come out on top.
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Summary: Excellent piece of work
Review: This was the first set of RAS books I read. I read his NY Best seller, Sea of Swords, first. This set of books is packed with very interesting characters, epic conquest, fatal flaws, but probably no redemption. Its a solid book I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I consider it, with all due respect and understanding of course, to be a better story than Lord of the Rings. Even if this is your first of the Drizzt books, its still a good place to start as enough background is given to allow the characters actions to make sense. If you later read Dark Elf Trilogy it will explain more. This is a quite nice read which I thouroughly enjoyed so much so that I gave it to my sister for her to read. It contains very small bits of character humor, but no silliness. Its a serious book that is a lot of fun, thought provoking to some degree. Its not jam packet with spells and D&D-ish things. Its a real story focused more on characters than dice rolling confrontations. Which is not what I expected from a book based on a game.
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Summary: Excellent piece of work
Review: This was the first set of RAS books I read. I read his NY Best seller, Sea of Swords, first. This set of books is packed with very interesting characters, epic conquest, fatal flaws, but probably no redemption. Its a solid book I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I consider it, with all due respect and understanding of course, to be a better story than Lord of the Rings. Even if this is your first of the Drizzt books, its still a good place to start as enough background is given to allow the characters actions to make sense. If you later read Dark Elf Trilogy it will explain more. This is a quite nice read which I thouroughly enjoyed so much so that I gave it to my sister for her to read. It contains very small bits of character humor, but no silliness. Its a serious book that is a lot of fun, thought provoking to some degree. Its not jam packet with spells and D&D-ish things. Its a real story focused more on characters than dice rolling confrontations. Which is not what I expected from a book based on a game.
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Summary: The best Drizzt Compilation to date.
Review: Until the next one that is. =]
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Summary: Don't let the beginning turn you off.
Review: When I started this book, everybody seemed to be against each other. This made me very angry because one of the most important aspects of the previous books was the progression of friendship between Drizzt and company. It seemed a cheap attempt at instilling conflict into the central plot. However, after about 100 pages or so the reasons behind this anger and confusion became apparent, and I realized the brilliance behind this tactic. Salvatore weaved one of his, thought lost, more interesting characters into the story with a fresh flair that was much appreciated. From this point on, the books began exhibiting the compelling aspects of their predecessors, eclipsing their seeming insurmountable set levels at points. I became, again, intimately involved with these unforgettable characters and realized coercion only after I had finished the whole collection in a mere week or two. This story is incredibly well-written and serves as a perfect example of truly unique world-creating fantasy. If you crave beautiful character development, intense moral codes (Drizzt sticks to his like a bee to a flower), or a clean and exciting fantasy adventure, this book, its predecessors included, is a very good choice.
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Summary: Salvatore at it's finest!!!!!!!
Review: Wow! I have read some really good books before but the whole Drizzt Do'Urden series takes the cake for my new favorites. And the Legacy of the Drow is a collection of some of the best in that series. Enough advanced writing, vocabulary and hidden meanings to make you think, and so much action that you will not be able to put it down! Literally, you will try and find some time, no matter how brief to read just a bit more. The kind of story you will read at 2:00 AM when you get up at 7. No collection is complete without it!!
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Summary: A True Masterpeice!
Review: You just can't go wrong with R.A. Salvatore, especially when Drizzt is involved. The Drizzt saga is like a bible to me. The Legacy of the Drow was particularily enjoyable. The companions of the hall suffered such hardships as no one deserves. Drizzt learning more and more the curse of his heritage. Each of the companions comes to more strongly understand their own mortality and their devotion to one another.
The true cruelty of the drow becomes well known as drizzt is hunted for his crimes against Lloth.
This is an excelent read. A tale comparible to the works of the father of fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien. Good job Mr. Salvatore and keep the masterpeices coming.
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