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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4418251" data-attributes="member: 3087">Because he's a terrible protagonist?When he appeared in Crystal Shard he was tolerable as a surrogate for the narrator. If RA needed to show you action in some corner of Icewind Dale then look! Drizz't's there! Did some NPC villian who had been cool and spooky need to be quietly dispatched because he/she/it was blocking the smooth progression of story? Drizz't shows up and dispatches it in some kewl way.As the series progessed he rapidly became absurd. He was the all purpose "plot resolver" a mobile pocket knife. You could skip his appearances, they're all the same.His only defining traits of any significance are that he's really good with his swords and he comes from an "evil race". He has no personality, no drives, he doesn't develop as a character in any meaningful way. Book after book after book he just becomes more and more insipid. The character has almost become a self-parody. I mean his book titles are things like "I can kill 10,000 orks".He's the pure wish fulfillment of a 10 year old given fictional form and left to run amok. The beautiful tortured ultimately vapid bishonen of western culture; defined mostly by the fact that he has two cool magical swords, and a magical cat friend and is "all mysterious and stuff".It's fine if you like him. But wondering why other people don't suggests that you haven't read many actual books of any quality.</blockquote>