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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4523985" data-attributes="member: 11821">You know, it's funny - I just finished re-reading those a few months back.Sea of Death is actually not a bad book, IMHO.  It's a perfectly decent swords & sorcery book... of course, I read them right after finishing up Vance's Dying Earth series, so maybe I was primed for it.I greatly enjoyed City of Hawks...  Maybe it's nostalgia speaking, but I found it to be a perfectly okay story.  You just have to get over the first few pages and wait for Gary to put down the thesaurus for a few pages. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Where the books got kinda intolerable, IMHO, was in Dance of Demons where Gord and Gellor make Drizzt, Elminster, and every other godlike NPC ever created look like a Commoner.  (His writing style also degraded, IMHO - lots more beginning-of-City-of-Hawks Gary and not enough Sea-of-Death Gary.)  I kinda took it in perspective to get through it all; I needed to think, "No, these are not mortals; they're gods now."  Nevertheless... yeah.-O</blockquote>