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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Serge" data-source="post: 1124527" data-attributes="member: 4049">I voted average.Frankly, I detest Salvatore's style and his cardboard characters.  In fact, the only character who wasn't cardboard was Driz'zt... and now, he's become a cliche because of all the fans he's generated.I think that Salvatore's writing's gotten better over time, as have his plots.  However, that's not saying much.His dialogue is always stilted.  His plots, while showing promise, are usually thin.  If you really read his Dark Elf books, you find that Salvatore fills in a lot of space with descriptions of battles rather than any kind of character development or plot progression.  It's essentially from one fight to the next.Also, he has a tendancy to introduce interesting characters (like some of the Baerns or Alustriel) and then sort of let them disappear (Alustriel) or kill them in a lackluster fashion.  I'm not expecting high brow writing here.  However, I do expect quality writing.  Salvatore's inability to offer really involved plots or characters are mitigated by his incredible sense of action and a pretty good dose of suspense (actually, it's dramatic irony).  These two balance each other out.  Since I prefer involved plots and character progression to strict action, I am very hard on him.  But, when compared to other genre fantasy out there, he's pretty average.  He lucked out with a niche that captured the lack of imagination in most people.  For that, he should be commended.</blockquote>

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