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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 2494252" data-attributes="member: 30022">Read the first three series. Found the Icewind Dale trilogy to be fairly typical D&D fare (unimaginative, cardboard characters, endless combat... but still readable). The Dark Elf trilogy was the high point, particularly the first book (Homeland). Good insight into Underdark cultures, some really good adventure ideas, and interesting/innovative characters.It was the following four books (Legacy, Starless Night, etc) that killed the series for me. With the exception of antihero Artemis Entreri, none of the characters grew or changed. Storylines and plot points were repeated. Some of the more complex characters from the Dark Elf trilogy (I'll leave out spoilers) were turned into simple "villains". It became a real chore to read them, so I simply stopped. I've heard good things about Servant of the Shard, but a quick bookstore perusal of other books (such as the Thousand Orcs trilogy) has convinced me that nothing has really changed.Basically, I'd say your enjoyment of the books relies on your preference for endless scenes of battle where Drizzt and other munchkins take down literally dozens of huge beasties, interspersed with the occasional chapter where Drizzt bemoans the fact that life sucks to be a "good" drow. And a "love triangle" which, to the best of my knowledge, is still unresolved after more than 15 books. I'll repeat a comment above: read the Dark Elf trilogy first, then decide whether you'd want to read the others. And I'd recommend skipping the series starting with the Legacy altogether.</blockquote>

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