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Do you know these books? do you like it? if yes, what have you read?
I have read a lot of books of this collection and specially the books of R.A.Salvatore. I really love the stories of the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden. I think he is my favorite character. I am reading the last book of "The Hunter's Blades trilogy", it's "The Two Sword" and it is excellent! I enjoy to read the different battles, friendship stories and all the experiences of each characters.
What do you think about this books. Let speak about it and say me what do you like and enjoy about it...

I found them alright, but now that I'm older, I do find them too...simple to read, much like reading Eddings now. I just don't find them satisfying anymore. They seemed to be good years ago, but they haven't stood the test of time for me. I found Drizzt to be a good character, Wulfgar as well and Entreri, but Catti I found ultimately very flat as a character, the same as Bruener. Regis...I dunno. He gets better as the books go on, but there's still too much sameness with other halfling/hobbit/kender types.

I have read most of the books, other than the books after A Thousand Orcs. It's good for a first read, but I find re-reading them is not worth it.

I outgrew those books years and years ago.

Entreri is still the ultimate badass, however. I can't believe someone so untalented as Salvatore came up with someone so fucking cool.

Did you also outgrow Lord of the Rings?

You do know that Lord of the Rings is indeed a children's story, right?

I'm a huge fan of the Drizzt books saga. Always will be favorites of mine.

I first read them ages and ages ago, and I still read the new ones when they come out in paperback. Though honestly, Drizzt's adventures don't thrill me as much any more. Reading about Salvatore's characters is like having a fun little romp with old friends, so there's still some appeal on that personal level. But barring Entreri and Jarlaxle's adventures, the books have been kind of unspectacular lately. The only thing the Hunter's Blade books had going for them was the last ten pages or so of The Two Swords, when... In the latest short story in Realms of the Elves, I was worlds more interested in......character development than in Drizzt's.

Still loving Entreri and Jarlaxle, though. Can't wait for Road of the Patriarch next October. It's going to finally expose Entreri's past, which is bound to make for some interesting reading.

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I started to read this books few years ago (i am not sure how many, 3 years minimum), it is not very famous in France, maybe because we dont hear a lot of things about it and it is very long to translate it in french (I am reading the hunter's blades trilogy in english because there is just the thousand orcs which is already translated). I agree about Entreri and Jarlaxle, they are very intriguing and interesting. I will read more about them, which book can you advise for me?
But, for the moment, Drizzt do'urden is still my favorite character...

You're not *seriously* comparing a timeless classic of literature to the drivel Salvatore mass-produces yearly, now are you?

Oh leave the troll be he's just trying to stir up indignant Tolkien fans.

Back when I was about 15 I read the I think Giants of Twighlight Vale and Cleric Quintuplet series and they were pretty enjoyable but on the simple side of things. Certianly not any worse than 90% of the pulp fantasy that gets churned out and a fair bit better than most of it.

I was always facinated with the Ravenloft series about 10 years ago, but my friends were all about the Dragonlance series. As far as real template campagining went, we were fans of City of Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, and Al-Quadiem (sp?). I wish I could go back and read those books again, but most of the stories I remember are pretty shallow compared to some of the stuff outside of D&D that you can find today.

But I'll never forget the end of I, Strahd, Memoirs of a Vampire. That was pretty classic.

I'd recommend abandoning the Wheel of Time books. Just walk away, right now. Spare yourself the agony of reaching book eight or nine and finally realising that you wasted all those hours reading one of the most wretched, clichéd, dragged-out fantasy series of all time.

Heh, I'm not even a Lord of the Rings fan. I find the books kind of boring. But it's undeniably great literature, for obvious reasons (and simply being influential is far from the only one). Salvatore is 100% fluff, and most of it is not very good fluff at that.

Re: Wheel of Time: book 12, the next one, is *supposed* to be the last, but I remain skeptical. I don't know how he'd be able to wrap up so many loose ends in just one book, even a big one (and while he said it'd be the last "even if it needs 2000 pages", there's no way the editors will let him do that), and even if book 11 actually HAD some stuff going on (unlike the past, what, 4 novels of sheer nothingess?).

If you are not too invested in Wheel of Time, I suggest you stop now. I'm too far into the series to not finish it, but it's not worth it. The few good moments are overshadowed by the complete stupidity of the characters, the Jordan cliches (women sniffing loudly, stone-faced men, Aes Sedai discussing important/dangerous matters "as if they were talking of the price of grain", women smoothening their skirts, Aes Sedai spanking (or threatening to spank) novices or disobedient young men, the ridiculous "swordfighting moves", and so on... so very tiring) and the atrocious pacing.

For good epic fantasy, you need A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. I also recommend the books by Robin Hobb (in that order!): Farseer trilogy, Liveship Traders trilogy, Tawny Man trilogy.