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TarotMaster

So far i am reading The Companions by R.A.Salavatore, I have read his other titles The Legacy if Drizzit, and the Neverwinter series. But i think i am missing some books or a series or two before that.

Blackraven

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Drizzt

elminster

There is also a section on him in the Heroes Lorebook (pages 44-46).

kiwidoc

I'd really recommend the book Homeland. I'm a fan of the storylines and characters Salvatore creates - but I'm not so impressed by his actual word-smithing. I've read most of the books up till the last couple of years, and I always thought Homeland was the best written. It also gives a really good sense of what the drow and the Underdark are like. So even though it's wayyyy back in the timeline (the first in time, but part ofthe second trilogy written) don't miss it out.

TarotMaster

kiwidoc said:

I'd really recommend the book Homeland. I'm a fan of the storylines and characters Salvatore creates - but I'm not so impressed by his actual word-smithing. I've read most of the books up till the last couple of years, and I always thought Homeland was the best written. It also gives a really good sense of what the drow and the Underdark are like. So even though it's wayyyy back in the timeline (the first in time, but part ofthe second trilogy written) don't miss it out.

I have read that one but the odd thing was I borrowed Book 4 in the series, read that thinking it was the first one and in a way it made his other books more enjoyable due to me learning more about Drizzit and his companions.

LadyRhian

Drizzt, not Drizzit. It's spelled the first way, and perhaps pronounced the second.

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TarotMaster

@Squire Ahahaaaa nice summery man. And i find the lack of "skill" that some of the enemies they face is a bit funny.

Awong124

Blackraven said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Drizzt

I have all of those books up to and including The Companions, even The Collected Stories. And I have read them all except The Companions.

Shandyr said:

LadyRhian said:

Drizzt, not Drizzit. It's spelled the first way, and perhaps pronounced the second.

The funny thing is that in one of the books there actually is a character who mispronounces Drizzt's name the same way:

"The latest pronunciation of "Drizzt Do'Urden" (given in 2010) is "Pronounce every letter, emphasis on the i (as in fizzed): dr-I-z-t" and "doe-ER-den." The pronunciation is given as "Drist Doe-URR-den" in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting: Running the Realms (2nd edition, revised). The pronunciation is also given as "Drits" instead of "Drist" in the book The Crystal Shard, when he teaches a child how to pronounce his name, and in interviews with R.A. Salvatore.
The pronunciation is also given in the book Sojourn, where he teaches another child how to pronounce his name, whereupon the little boy runs for his mother yelling "It's a drizzit!", although Drizzt corrects this common pronunciation several throughout the books. "

Source: click me

Even though I know what the pronunciation is supposed to be, in my head I always pronounce his name "Drizzit" when I read it.

Also, I don't know if any of you remember, but in BG when you go to the exterior of Cloakwood Mines there is a guard inside a back room who says (with voice acting) "I can take Drizzit with both hands tied behind my back". And he pronounces it "Drizzit".

Shandyr said:

And whatever you do, do not look up "drizzit" on urban dictionary!

You know that just makes me want to do it more right?

lolien

Maybe i'm too simple, but i like all of the Drizzt stories. However there are some, what i liked more than the others.

Awong124

lolien said:

Maybe i'm too simple, but i like all of the Drizzt stories. However there are some, what i liked more than the others.

I like the ones that prominently feature Artemis Entreri. I think he's actually my favorite character in the series. Needless to say I also have the Sellswords trilogy. I'm starting to like Drizzt less and less because of his emo brooding. I always just skip his monologues in the beginning of every part in the more recent novels.

LadyRhian

@Awong124 Just wait, in the Companions book, Artemis comes in for his share of Angst (and Wangst), when he and his own companions are taken and tortured by the Dark Elves. I won't give away the ending, but Sucks to be Artemis Entreri.

TarotMaster

@LadyRhian I am sooooooo close to the ending. 4 more chapters left.

LadyRhian

*Sucks to be Dahlia, too*, which you will know after reading the book. Seems to me that R.A. Salvatore went out of his way to reset the books back to the way the story used to be, re: relationships between the characters and so forth.

DreadKhan

TarotMaster said:

@Squire Ahahaaaa nice summery man. And i find the lack of "skill" that some of the enemies they face is a bit funny.

Artemis spat dirty water at his eyes iirc... hardcore!

But seriously folks, these books are great for teens. I loved them then. After you read some actually legitimately grest writers, you find such books feel shallow. You also must be somewhat intoxicated to watch movies or TV, other than sports.

DAMN YOU DOSTOEVSKY!

Oh, wait, you did that yourself during your life... nevermind. I can still be miffed at Dumas.

LadyRhian

I know that Jim Butcher has a combat practice place set up in his (back?) yard with iron/steel shooting dummies and the like to test out his combat scenes on, you know, to see if they are actually possible and such. Sounds hardcore.

TarotMaster

Another author i like is, Brent Weeks. His tales are really detailed and well done. A bit dark as well.

Awong124

TarotMaster said:

Another author i like is, Brent Weeks. His tales are really detailed and well done. A bit dark as well.

I loved the Night Angel Trilogy.

LadyRhian

You have to read Elizabeth Moon as well. She tells an excellent story, and she's an ex-Marine (Albeit she was a computer specialist, she achieved the rank of 1st Lieutenant while in active duty). I read some military Sci-Fi as well, especially David Weber, David Drake, and John Ringo. David Weber writes A LOT (I am not joking). I love his Honor Harrington novels,

Awong124

I don't think I've read any military sci-fi before. I sometimes read books about military stuff, like Tom Clancy and Lee Child. I love the Jack Reacher books.

LadyRhian

The only Tom Clancy novels I really enjoyed were the NetForce books. And Dave Duncan did a really excellent fantasy novel universe I'd love to revisit some day: "The Cursed". He writes some really great novels "The King's Blades" series, "The Seventh Sword" series...

Awong124

A lot of Tom Clancy's books are quite boring, but I remember reading Rainbow Six some 15 years years ago and thought it was the best book I've ever read at the time. I think his Net Force books were co-written with somebody else, same with his Power Plays series.

I'm a very plot-driven type of reader. Things that matter most to me when reading a book are how events unfold. I mostly don't care about character and relationship development, and find those parts boring. That's why I love books by Dan Brown, because they're pretty much 80-90% plot and suspense. And that's also why I will never understand the appeal of books like The Fault in Our Stars.

kiwidoc

I do remember in one of Salvatore's non D&D based novels I spotted two things that really, really bugged me. The first was that his uber fighter hero stripped naked to do his sword practice, but he actually fought in chain armor. Surely if you learn all your "muscle memory" moves while starkers, they wouldn't work properly when wearing rather heavy gear.

Secondly was a scene that made me collapse about the place laughing - while doing his naked sword dance he heard a disturbance. So stark bollock naked he leaps onto his horse (there's one hell of an ouch right there) tucks his sword under the uppermost part of his thigh, gallops up to a six foot wall and gets the horse to jump it .... which must surely lead to the unkindest cut of all!

I did enjoy Elizabeth Moon's books a lot. To me the best fantasy writer is Tolkien - but after him the next three to my mind are a pair of women writers - C J Cherryh & Robin Hobb, and Terry Pratchett. Pratchett isn't just the funniest writer on the planet he also creates wonderful characters and fascinatingly twisted and complex plots.

CaloNord

kiwidoc said:

I do remember in one of Salvatore's non D&D based novels I spotted two things that really, really bugged me. The first was that his uber fighter hero stripped naked to do his sword practice, but he actually fought in chain armor. Surely if you learn all your "muscle memory" moves while starkers, they wouldn't work properly when wearing rather heavy gear.

Secondly was a scene that made me collapse about the place laughing - while doing his naked sword dance he heard a disturbance. So stark bollock naked he leaps onto his horse (there's one hell of an ouch right there) tucks his sword under the uppermost part of his thigh, gallops up to a six foot wall and gets the horse to jump it .... which must surely lead to the unkindest cut of all!

What in gods name. I have a half dozen swords and at no point or in any universe would I put one near my family jewels. Let alone right a horse... naked... o.O

I concur that Tolkien is by far the best and my all time favorite in the genre. Followed closely by Raymond E. Feist who wrote some amazing works over the years! I'm going to read some of Terry Pratchett in the coming months! I tried to read G.R.R.M. but it was so close to the TV series I lost interest in the first book. If I'd found the books first it might have been different. Are there any majot deviations further down the line?

DreadKhan

After reading Thieves World's original books, lots of fantasy series' are a bit dull in comparison. Tempus Thales is a profoundly interesting, yet both sympathetic and simultaneously abhorrent. Not that every author was good (I admit, I skip ~4 or 5 stories, but they arent awful, just dont add to the experience). I've been a fan of Lynn Flewelling and Tad Williams (both writers talented enough to have characters feel truly alive, and avoid some of the more tedius tropes), and enjoy a wide range of the more mainstream stuff, like Eddings, the better Ravenloft books, even Harry Potter.

Anyone ever read the Apropos series? Laughed my ass off. Perhaps TOO human characters? Heh

LadyRhian

@DreadKhan I Love Peter David's writing, back from when I first met him at I-Con on Long Island back in the 80's and he was writing "Photon" Tie-in Novels. My absolute favorite novel of his, by and large, is Q-in-Law that he wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

In short, Lwaxana Troi comes to visit the Enterprise-D because she wants to Marry her daughter off, and the Q is also making one of his periodic visits to the Enterprise to twit Picard. Lwaxana meets him and can't read the Q's mind, and she decides he'd be a perfect new husband for her. Q is happy to have another imperious human-type to torment and decides to "romance" her. And he plays on her to be even more overbearing to her daughter than usual. Deanna is upset at the whole idea of her mother and the Q, and tries to warn her mother off, but as usual , Lwaxana completely discounts what her daughter is saying. The Enterprise is in an area to mediate between two different alien races in what amounts to a Romeo and Juliet type situation.

During the course of the novel, Q shares his powers with Lwaxana so she can meddle in her daughter's life. When she finally does so, Q reveals how foolish and stupid she has been and calls her out on how she power-plays with her daughter, her daughter's life and something that should be Deanna's to decide: her love life. Lwaxana is shocked, then angry, then TOWERINGLY angry. And then Q decides to take the powers he "lent" her back. And…

"Lwaxana, you have to give the powers back now." (He tries to take them again, and once again, FAILS miserably.) "Lwaxana, you have to give the powers *back* now…" And she blows him (literally) through the side of the ship. (and repairs it all afterwards so that no one on the ship or the ship itself, is harmed).

He flees, she chases him, using her Q powers to teach him a lesson in the most effective (i.e. worst) way. At one point, she shrinks him down to the size of a racquetball ball and takes him to the ship racquetball court to use him to play, all the while telling him who she is. "And holder (WHACK) of the sacred (WHACK) Chalice (WHACK) of Riix! (WHACK!!)"

And up on the bridge, Riker, Picard and the bridge crew are watching all this happening, unable to really interfere or intervene (and not sure they want to, either…) Riker says, "Wow, she's really beating the stuffing out of him. What do we do?" And Worf replies, deadpan. "Sell tickets."

The best part being, that when they did the audio book version of that book, they got John DeLancie (who played Q) and Majel Barrett (who played Lwaxana Troi) to do the voices. I nearly died listening to it. Seriously.

CaloNord

LadyRhian said:

Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Oh that made me nostalgic... I miss TNG.

Awong124

kiwidoc said:

I do remember in one of Salvatore's non D&D based novels I spotted two things that really, really bugged me. The first was that his uber fighter hero stripped naked to do his sword practice, but he actually fought in chain armor. Surely if you learn all your "muscle memory" moves while starkers, they wouldn't work properly when wearing rather heavy gear.

The chain mail he wears is a special mithril chain shirt that Bruenor specially crafted for him. It's been mentioned in one of the early books that it's about as restrictive as a regular shirt. But yeah, nobody really wants to read about him moving around naked.

CaloNord

kiwidoc said:

non D&D based novels.

May have misunderstood my good man!

Awong124

CaloNord said:

kiwidoc said:

non D&D based novels.

May have misunderstood my good man!

Ah yes. I misread that part. But that naked thing seems familiar anyway. I might have read that book as well. Maybe it was The Highwayman? But Bransen never wore armor. I thought The Highwayman series sucked anyway.

CaloNord

Hahahaha! I found his books awesome when I was younger. Now having read things like the Magician series... not so much. Still they aren't a bad romp in the Forgotten Realms if you can manage them. He makes one every fifteen minutes!