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Summary: Great Book, but maybe not great Drizzt Book.
Comment: This book's greatest strength is its plot. It has a myriad of diverse characters, side-stories, and intrigue, nd yet it is still relatively easy to follow, and exciting. The battle scenes are exhilirating but not overdrawn, and the pacing is good. The book brings fresh life to the Drizzt series, bringing back a number of old characters and introducing many new ones. It has a mad lich, devious pirate captains, an amry of tragic crusaders on a doomed quest for justice. Obould ahs a brief but satisfying cameo appearance. In many ways, the book's dark tone and aura of constant chaos reminded me of the film the Dark Knight. And the parallels between the book's plot and the War in Iraq are impossible to miss...
However, Drizzt fans might notice an abrupt and inexplicable change in their dark elf hero. Drizzt never struck me as the "greater good" type; he was never one to sit back and allow evil to thrive in the name of the greater good. Drizzt struck me as the sort of person always attempt to find a solution, or would die trying, rather than give up. Yet in this book, Drizzt's personality seems to take a sudden and, in my opinion undesirable turn. One scene in particualr involvign the Harpells seemd out of place. In addition, I have to say I was disappointed by the unbelievable ending to climactic fight scene between Drizzt and a particular dwarf...
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Summary: The Pirate King
Comment: This book is a good transition form the first. In many trilogies all three books are the same story. "The Orc King" was one story and now "The Pirate King" is a different story. I am not too crazy about Captain Deudermont and he is in this book a lot. He is too self rightous and I think that it blinds him from reality. Sometimes being good does not make everything ok, he seems to think differently. Otherwise I like the story and the cameo of Wulfgar and am looking forward to the 3rd in this series. Maybe Entreri will show up??? Maybe it will be better if not.
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Summary: Aspirations For He Who Desires More
Comment: This series of novels are more that what they appear to the one who would read them for an inspiration to improve the quality of life by using the examples and experiences of other's trials and tripulations. There is lessons among these books such as those of honor, valor, compassion, comsideration, contribution, being and having morals, and boudries, of making the right choices, of how to use the mind, and body, of how to succeed, of how to insure your failure...etc. Of which you will never receive if you just read as a past time. Instead make everything you read a study of how it may assist you in raising the quality of life for yourself and others.
Do yourself a service and throw the TV out the window into the garbage never to watch it again, and begin reading books of these kind (The Sword Of Truth by Terry Goodkind) as well as books of philosophy, such as the Master Key System by Charles F Haanel,
When you do your life will brighten up in ways that you could never even fathom.
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Summary: almost
Comment: Possible Spoilers!!!!!!!!!
I think that this could have been a brilliant book, but just falls short. The main plot seems to take the focus away from Drizzt which i cannot agree with, unless, this book is leading up to something in the ghost king. The title of the next book suggests something to do with Akleem Greeth and a possible battle between him and Drizzt. The comments about drizzt not facing any new foes are justified i believe, mainly because in the past Drizzt has faced demons (Errtu) and matron mothers and easily won! The possible battle with the liche could end these thoughts though. I found that halfway through the book there was a lull that could have been due to the fractured story line when Drizzt and Regis go and find Wulfgar. I do however like the ending, the subtle hints about the identity of the voice in the shadows were brilliantly written. A good Drizzt book from R.A. Salvatore but not his best!
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Summary: Not his best product but worth the read
Comment: R.A. Salvatore's the Pirate King describes political intrigue, power struggles between ruling factions and revolution of oppressed in a fantasy setting. The famed protagonist of this second series in the book, Drizzt Do'Urden, appears with his friends Regis and Bruenor at events that lead to escalations between opposing factions.
One of them is the confrontation of the Orc King Obould against the Demon Nyphithys, a prelude to the climax of the story, the fight of Deudermont against the Archmage Arcane in Luskan.
The second book in the transition series is well written and the extensive details of the battles allows for great visualization during the story. I will not say that this book is his best one yet, due to the fact that he sometimes seems to change his pace suffering a diminishing flow of the story, but overall I would have to say that I was quite satisfied with what I have read thus far. This part of the series is only worth reading if you are a Drizzt Do'urden fan and have been reading the previous series. Only then will one understand more about the characters and the setting The Pirate King takes place.
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