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TheViscount:
Least favorite or favorite book in Forgotten realms, and why you enjoyed/disliked it.

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I hated Maiden of Pain. This should remind FG not to publish open calls. Apparently France exists in Forgotten Realms, and everyone is a puppet attached to strings which are attached to more strings and somehow everything falls right into place, even though it seriously could not have, making absolutely no logical sense. Oh and the main character walks around in a suit of armor without any consequence. Nope, silent and super acrobatic, and kills clerics level 15 or higher with a quick single shot of a broken spear head. Garbage that should have never been published.

KvP:
You know I actually read a D&D novel once. R.A. Salvatore. I think it was a Drizzt book collection.

It was pretty awful, and given that Salvatore's one of the more acclaimed (prolific?) D&D novelists out there I don't hold out much hope for the rest of the genre.

But you know what, I wanted to play Baldur's Gate 2 so bad I sat down and I read all three of those collected novels. It was sort of like breakup sex in that I felt pretty skeezy afterward, but unlike breakup sex in that I did not get my rocks off at any point in the span of the days I was reading it.

TheViscount:

--- Quote from: KvP on 23 Feb 2009, 18:08 ---You know I actually read a D&D novel once. R.A. Salvatore. I think it was a Drizzt book collection.

It was pretty awful, and given that Salvatore's one of the more acclaimed (prolific?) D&D novelists out there I don't hold out much hope for the rest of the genre.

But you know what, I wanted to play Baldur's Gate 2 so bad I sat down and I read all three of those collected novels. It was sort of like breakup sex in that I felt pretty skeezy afterward, but unlike breakup sex in that I did not get my rocks off at any point in the span of the days I was reading it.

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That's too bad, I've only read Homeland and Exile and I liked them both, except Homeland was a bit on the boring side for me. Drizzt is kind of old, the genre changes it's style as time goes by. But I suppose if you're not into the whole fantasy genre there's not much you can do about liking them though.

Alex C:
Trust me, you can be totally into the fantasy genre and still be skeeved out by Salvatore. I have a Drizzt compilation laying around somewhere that I picked up on the cheap, but I never really managed to get very far. While he thankfully isn't very flowery, the dude still somehow manages to include a few descriptions per page that border upon the oxymoronic or redundant. He's the kind of guy who who'll happily crap out a description like "tooth-filled maw" and play it straight. I've read worse though; some of the Robert E. Howard homages produced in the '60s are just unreasonably bad.

TheViscount:

--- Quote from: Alex C on 23 Feb 2009, 19:20 ---Trust me, you can be totally into the fantasy genre and still be skeeved out by Salvatore. I have a Drizzt compilation laying around somewhere that I picked up on the cheap, but I never really managed to get very far. While he thankfully isn't very flowery, the dude still somehow manages to include a few descriptions per page that border upon the oxymoronic or redundant. He's the kind of guy who who'll happily crap out a description like "tooth-filled maw" and play it straight. I've read worse though; some of the Robert E. Howard homages produced in the '60s are just unreasonably bad.

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Honestly I don't remember any of that from Exile, but it could be the answer as to why Homeland was so boring, other than the uneventfulness. I think the novelty of a dark elf renegade with two cool looking swords with names is the reason why he is popular in the first place- to the `cool appeal` fans of fantasy. Hey, nothing wrong with that though. I suppose that's why his Cleric Quintet never really caught on. Edit: Oh yeah, that and the really old 'Save the world from evil' plot.

Salvatore: But it's cool guys! It's like... retro or something!

But hey, I still like Drizzt, he's a cool character.

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