I have read 3 drizzt books and i am not impressed. may spoil

[Black Baron]

I have read the crystal shard, and it is P I T I F U L L. Redis=Bilbo, the vocabulary is poor and story line lacks in depth. Salvatore is a sorry excuse for an author!

[ 07-08-2004, 04:39 PM: Message edited by: Black Baron ]

[Gangrell]

Originally posted by Black Baron: I have read the crystal shard, and it is P I T I F U L L. Redis=Bilbo, the vocabulary is poor and story line lacks in depth. Salvatore is a sorry excuse for an author!

So, exactly what do you consider a good book?

[Black Baron]

Song of ice and fire by G.Martin, Sherlock Holmes by A.C.Doyle, Fiasko By Stanislav Lem...
I can name over one hundred good books out of my head. Good vocabulary, deep plot, good descriptions of characters. Salvatore simply lacks all of the three.

[Gangrell]

Originally posted by Black Baron: Song of ice and fire by G.Martin, Sherlock Holmes by A.C.Doyle, Fiasko By Stanislav Lem... I can name over one hundred good books out of my head. Good vocabulary, deep plot, good descriptions of characters. Salvatore simply lacks all of the three.

Or perhaps you just don't prefer his style of writing.

[Black Baron]

You call lightning development of the plot, style? Poor vocabulary is not style, the lack of character depth is not style. It is simply the trademark of a bad author. Salvatore and Terry Goodkind strangely enough come to my mind when thinking of failures.

[Mouse]

There are quite a few threads discussing the literary "merits" of Salvatore. Just do a search for Salvatore on this forum.

Personally, this is one of my favourites

[Aerich]

A funny thread indeed. Although I disagree about The Hobbit.

For sci-fi, I second the nomination of L. Ron Hubbard. I read halfway through one of his books then threw it away and washed my hands.

For fantasy, that's a tough one. Personally, I enjoy reading Salvatore when my brain is numb from school, although I've never re-read Spine of the World (and never will). His Witch's Daughter was the first fantasy book I picked up; the Hobbit was the second.

For sheer personal distate, I'd have to go with something written by Ed Greenwood. I haven't read all of his ghastly "Elminster the All-Powerful" books, but I did read Elminster in Hell, and regretted it immensely. Not only is Elminster ridiculously overpowered and impossible to kill (even more so than Drizzt), but all of his God-touched, level 20+ mage friends tried to rescue him and failed, after vaporizing 20-500 devils apiece with their Wands of Uber-Demon-Destruction.

[Black Baron]

I just finished the icewinddale trilogy.
Oficcialy: Salvatore sucks.

A scene from one of his books (edited by me for more effect):

One million twenty thousand and eighty storm giants, half of the Tartar, Abyss, Nine hells, Avatar of Bane, Avatar of Lloth and one drunk goblin advanced at Drizzt. The situation looked bad. Drizzt lost one of his scimitars, the second was broken in half, he was badly bruised and lethally poisoned by revenge spider. His left leg tendons were cut. The field of battle was :"5*5 miles, no cover". His trusted friends were lately seen: inside a working giant meat grinder, near Reistlin when he was really pissed off and had instakill spells memorized, Mephistophels private torturing chamber, Venus.

The situation looked bad (oh, did i use the same frase? not to worry. that is called skill).

Blind with pain, when he saw nothing at all, drizzt charged at the drunk goblin. He snapped his neck with ease, and was about to kill Belhifet with corpse of a storm giant, when he was injured in his neck with a two handed vorporal sword.

he was about to give up and die, when Wolfgar that arrived at "Enterprise" space ship, threw to him antinuclear cloack. Drizzt covered himself with it and then The whole area was bombed with nukes.

The nukes had little effect on the major demons and avatars, and they continued to go the last 3 meters (totally forgetting about ranged weapons, spells and the fact that they tried to advance these 3 meters for nearly 1/2 an hour).

The situation looked bad (ooooops. Third time). All was about to be lost, when someone cried: cut!!
The demons and avatars stopped and took some rest. Drizzt in the mean time found 2 scimitars +10000, several ultimate healing potions, and was given by some goddes "immune to everything" ring. Then due to his notoriously famous characteristic started to fight unfair (before the "cut" was ended). In 2 minutes he killed everyone and stood victorious.

Nah, that is too easy.

Suddenly the ring and scimitars turned to dust. Lord Ao has arrived. He was Mad As Hell.


The situation looked bad. (4 time! geesh, i probably do a record).

WRAAAAAAUGH! Shouted Ao, charged at drizzt, and despite the fact that he was 50 meters high and wore unpenetrable full plate mail, he managed to impale himself on a little dagger that drizzt had in his boot.

All went quiet. Drizzt stepped to enterprise, rescued the rest of his friends in a matter of seconds, and went to fight elminster's evil twin, Lloth, Bane, and Talos themselves.

Now that kind of story that i will publish, declares Salvatore. I am goooooooooooooood. Che-Chinn! [img]graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Now please compare the stuff that i wrote to any drizzt book, and explain to me the following questions:

1.what is the difference.
2.Who is more realistic, me or salvatore?
3.what is the difference between ourvocabulary.
4. who stinks of UltraUberPowerfull cheese



[ 07-09-2004, 05:30 PM: Message edited by: Black Baron ]

[Mouse]

Irony and sarcasm. Truly BB, the force is strong in you!!!

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[Black Baron]

Thank you Mouse. I feel that i do have the potential in me to turn into a better author than salvatore. From the humour side anyway.

Watch for updates, the story is not finished yet...