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Summary: Salvatore is clearly the Lord and Master of Fantasy fiction
Review: Once agains R.A. Salvatore has proved that he is truly a literary Legend. The Thousand Orcs, His latest book offers a very personal look into each of His core characters lifes, as a group, but more importantly, as individual. The Troupe is on their way back to Mithral Hall when they come across the battered remains of a dwarven caravan with quite the grim tale to tale. From Bruneor's internal conflict, knowing his place as the rightfull king of Mithral Hall and giving up His life among his freinds traveling the roads and facing the dangers of the wilds in a fashion that only He can, to Wulfgars own struggle, feeling that He must give up his warriors heart and path to see to his responisblities to His new family. From the emergance of rumblebelly(who has come into his own-*I am so proud) to stand and fight beside his fellow troupe members, to the budding relationship of Catti-brie. It is a non-stop adventure, I personally went through the book in one day........But then when it comes to Drizz't and company how can you not find it difficult, if not impossible( for me it was the latter) to put the book down, Definatly a Salvatore Classic ........Nuff said ya heard.
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Summary: The Thousand Yawns
Review: Although I enjoyed The Dark Elf trilogy (In my humble opinion it was the best trilogy of Drizzt), I think the story (well, what story?) it's getting more a fight, let's find another excuse for a fight. well, to tell the truth, it's an OK book, but the characters are getting stale, too predictible. If you like Drizzt, you'll like this book, but don't expect too much out of it.
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Summary: for pete's sake people...
Review: do you have nothing better to do than sit around and write flame reviews as if your opinion should set the course of Salvatore's idea? GO OUTSIDE. Go. That's that big place, on the other side of the door, where all that noise and sunshine comes from. that is all.
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Summary: Definitely one of his better books.
Review: The Thousand Orcs is another book in the neverending saga of Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions. While at times Salvatore has seemed to be on autopilot with these characters this latest book feels fresh and continues the evolution of these people we have come to know and love. For those that enjoy AD&D, Salvatore has always been the best writer to translate that world into prose. This time around the companions are faced with the challenge of defending areas of the Savage Frontier from attack by a large force of Orcs (if that wasn't obvious from the title). The pacing of the book is quick. Events never seem forced, instead evolving logically from one to another. Salvatore juggles the story between his cast of familiar characters and does it well. The novel doesn't have the dark tone of his recent books. The companions have passed through hard times and are reunited to face this new threat. The ending seems to be a bit of a stretch, but it does send the characters in a new direction that will make for interesting reading in upcoming books.
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Summary: Hunh, frustrating
Review: I've been following this series for more than 10 years. It is with regret that I now sign off. I continue to think Drizzt is a great character, but these books have become an exercise in frustration to wade through. I have no complaints about the plot per se, but so many of the new characters are caricatures that it's impossible to care about them. The characters you *do* actually care about (or did once) get less and less stage time with each passing book. I've never understood Salvatore's compulsion for writing no less than half the book from the villains'/nugatory characters' eyes, but I've always put up with it because I enjoyed Drizzt et al. Now, there are so many characters fighting for screen time, it's rediculous. More than that, it's boring. My other main gripe is the juvenile feel of the book. If Salvatore wants to write YA novels, I have no problem with that, but when the core characters are in their 30's or more... Sorry, it doesn't jive for me. Young Adult books are about er young adults, though apparently in this world dwarf is synonomous with childish. The frustrating part is I've recently reread a couple of the earlier books, and they aren't like this. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone over 18 or anyone who actually wants the book to be about the main charaters, oy.
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Summary: Somebody is slowing down; Drizzt or Salvatore?
Review: This book starts off very slow for readers familiar with Salvatore's original flair with his million dollar cast of characters. The title also leaves much to be desired as this book is about the relationship between Drizzt & Catti-brie...the thousand orcs are there to add a little intregue in this budding romance novel. Four stars because there is not enough action, however, it is a must read book 1 that you won't put down until the last page when you become angry until you start reading book 2.
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Summary: A real Page-turner
Review: Salvatore's storytelling keeps getting better and better. In this new book, his mastery of intrigue and intertwining plot lines is akin to Clancy's. Aside from being a great story featuring the Icewind Dale characters, it's engaging and difficult to put down.
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Summary: An improvement over the last series.
Review: First off I must say that Salvatores masterpiece is the Icewind Dale Trilogy. That is hands down his finest work with Drizzt. The Dark Elf Trilogy is, in my humble opinion not worth the paper it is printed on. This, book, 'The Thousand Orcs' (which by the way is a bit of an underestimate and misleading) seems to be a return to his winning ways. The characters have grown, they have had trials and been changed by them. This sets up really mature interaction among our adventurers. Salvatore is at least a writer who keeps continuity at the forefront. He doesn't just introduce a new development in one novel only to forget about it in the next. So it is neat to see the conflicts that the characters new entanglements produce. What is also nice about this book and Salvatore in general, is the fact that he does like to surprise the reader. And that is a hard thing to do when the themes fantasy novels have been pretty much done to death. I probably need not say that Salvatore handles the action superbly. Or need I mention that the books are action packed and fun? No...good.
My only complaint really is the title. It is more than a thousand orcs, more by a lot. And it isn't just orcs. I don't quite understand that.
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Summary: Good book, but certainly not Salvatore's best.
Review: I have been a loyal fan and reader of the Drizzt novels since the beginning. Salvatore is a great writer and to read one of his novels is a real treat compared to some of the fantasy dribble out there now. The story is good and the action intense at times. My complaints are few, but stop this from being a great novel. First, the Companions of the Hall. While I love all of them, this book makes it feel like its finally the time for Drizzt to move on. They have had there run, let's retire the gang before this gets really monotonous. Drizzt needs to go off on truly new excursions. This book pretty much plays like the old novels of the series but does include a situation the Companions have not faced before in the finale. The Drizzt/Catti Brie love situation has been drawn out too long now. Several novels have gone by and neither has even truly said what they feel. All I am saying is that Salvatore had better finalize this situation by the end of this trilogy. Enough is enough. My final complaint is the biggest. It seems that with the latest novels Salvatore seems to not have enough material to fill a book about the main plot. Thus he involves side stories which seem to have no bearing on the story. He does tie them together at the end, but very weakly. Making much of the material seem unnecessary and a waste of pages. Like in the Spine of the World which was more about a girl named Marelda than Wulfgar, he does it again. This time we are given a story of Ivan and Pikel of the Cleric Quintet dealing with some moon elves who are interested in finding out if Pikel is a druid!? And the other story is about the political situation between dwarves and humans in the town of Mirabar! The people of the town are concerned with loosing profits, when we as the reader know that the book should be centering more on this massive invasion of orcs and frost giants. When these two side plots connect with the main story at the end of the novel, it just seems pointless. Despite my complaints, this is a good book. Hopefully the next two novels in the series will deal with the story at hand, instead of going off into something else which has no bearings. I don't recommend new readers of the series to start with this one, especially since there are lots of references to Ellifain, a character who died in the last novel. Start from the beginning with The Crystal Shard.
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Summary: This book fell way short of its possible expectations
Review: Well sorry to be the negative one here, but I am an avid fan of Drizzt and I was not impressed at all! You think wow 1,000 orcs cool! sorry I have finished past Drizzt books in days, I was just glued to them. This one took me a couple weeks and only because I had to force myself to read it. This book sums itself up, as to spacy. You could have put all the usefull 'Drizzt book series' information into a couple chapters. And the usual best parts of the book (aka the fight scenes and character development)lacked in fullness. They just didn't seem as complete as past books. I have to say bad guy character build-up as well was pretty weak. And usual character sterotypes didn't match up with one main character, I won't say whom but fans of the series will know. All in all if you have free time, can borrow the book, and you enjoy the series, its your choice. I will still continue to buy the next books in the series and hope for a better one the next time around.
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