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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3348861" data-attributes="member: 4090">Oddly, I feel the exact opposite. I thought the Crystal Shard trilogy (in particular, the Crystal Shard) were very well written, well plotted books. The Dark Elf trilogy was okay- Salvatore started to get a little too hung up on his elaborate (and, to me, hard to visualize and often somewhat ludicrous when visualized) fight scenes. I kind of gave up at some point with the later novels- I think the last one I read was the one where Wulfgar got resurrected, and I barely recall that one. His works just got blah, to me. The lowpoint, for me, was the near product placement perfect inclusion of the dwarven battlerager (Pwiddledorf or something) in one of the later novels. I'm tempted to try his Artemis Entreri/Jarlaxle novels, but I'm also leery. Like others, I think I just got burned out on the whole thing. It seemed like he was recycling the same Drizzt tales time and again.[As an aside, I was a bit disappointed when he changed Drizzt in the post-Crystal Shard novels to only around a century or so old, as opposed to the much older age he was in CS. I guess it doesn't make a huge difference, and character development wise, it probably helped for the backstory he told, but I think the idea of the loneliness that must have developed for him over centuries away from his people and others makes a much more tragic figure than just decades. Being nitpicky, though.]</blockquote>