R.A Salvatore - Whats new?

[Daniel]

Many years ago I picked up a second hand copy of the Crystal Shard and became hooked on Salvatore's books. The trouble with this addiction is that the Drizzt books are rather hard to get hold of outside of specialist book shops here in the UK, and I live out in the middle of nowhere miles from any bookshops let alone specialist ones. This led me to fueling my addiction by buying his books on the glorious interweb(Ebay how I've missed you).

Now to cut a long story short, I have been without the internet for the past few years, and I was wondering what books I'm currently missing from my collection I have:

The Dark Elf Trilogy
* Homeland
* Exile
* Sojourn

The Icewind Dale Trilogy
* The Crystal Shard
* Streams of Silver
* The Halflings Gem

Legacy of the Drow
* The Legacy
* Starless Night
* Siege of Darkness
* Passage to Dawn

Paths of darkness
* The Silent Blade
* The Spine of the World
* Servant of the Shard
* Sea of Swords

I also have the Cleric Quintet (if anymore books revolving around Cadderly have been released).

The reason I am asking is because I know he has released new Drizzt books, just before I lost my internet connection I remember reading (on this site I believe) somthing about him starting a new series, but I cant remember for the life of me the name of that series, making it hard to find on Ebay ; ;

Also during my searches for the titles of these books I came across another series I've not heard of, which got me quite excited - The Sellswords books, a series following Entreri and Jarlaxle, from what I can gather these books are a spin off from the Servant of the Shard in the Paths of Darkness series, or at least I would assume so.

Well if any Salvatore fans on here could give me titles to any books I've missed these last few years I wouldbe greatful.

[Ziroc]

Check this page at Wizards of the Coast, you are missing 5 I think.

http://ww2.wizards.com/books/Wizards...orgottenRealms

Drizzt
The Thousand Orc's
The Lone Drow
The Two Swords

Entreri and Jarlaxle
Promise of the Witch-King
The Road of the Patriarch

[ 11-12-2006, 09:48 PM: Message edited by: Ziroc ]

[Daniel]

Thanks for the reply, 5 unread books its like christmas come early lol.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

If you like, you can let me know what you don't have. There are a number of used book stores here (even though our city is fairly small). A used paper back runs around $3-5cdn and shipping shouldn't be that much.

I actually have a signed hard cover of his. He didn't sign it for me, but I found it at the used book store for $18, so I figured, what the heck. Strange that someone would sell it to a used book store.. probably only got $4-5 for it.

I still have to read these myself. I'll check the library first.

Entreri and Jarlaxle
Promise of the Witch-King
The Road of the Patriarch

[Daniel]

Originally posted by Variol (Farseer) Elmwood: If you like, you can let me know what you don't have. There are a number of used book stores here (even though our city is fairly small). A used paper back runs around $3-5cdn and shipping shouldn't be that much. I actually have a signed hard cover of his. He didn't sign it for me, but I found it at the used book store for $18, so I figured, what the heck. Strange that someone would sell it to a used book store.. probably only got $4-5 for it. I still have to read these myself. I'll check the library first. Entreri and Jarlaxle Promise of the Witch-King The Road of the Patriarch

I've already put bids in for the books I'm missing, but thanks for the offer though I apprieciate it.

[Thoran]

Just keep in mind that not all of his work is on a par with the Dark Elf and Icewind Dale series.

In fact apart from those series I personally have not read anything from him that I'd bother reading a second time.

Variol... if you've read them all can you seperate the wheat from the chaff for us?

[Daniel]

Originally posted by Thoran: Just keep in mind that not all of his work is on a par with the Dark Elf and Icewind Dale series. In fact apart from those series I personally have not read anything from him that I'd bother reading a second time. Variol... if you've read them all can you seperate the wheat from the chaff for us?

I cant speak for the books I've not read yet (I've just started The Thousand Orcs, and so far I'm not dissapointed), but I love everything I have read that Salvatore has written, the Legacy of the Drow and Paths of Darkness series included.

I dont understand why so many people dislike his more recent work, I hear some people complaining that his plots and storylines are unoriginal, stereotypical fantasy storylines that we have read over and over again, but to me I've never considered plot and storyline all that important to a good book. I subscribe to the school of writing that believes characters are more important than the plot, the plot is just a secondary thing to move the characters along as they evolve, and Salvatore is without a doubt one of the best Character writers I've ever seen.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

Thanks Daniel,
I feel the same. I like all his stuff except.. was it Servant of the Shard; with Entreri and Jarlaxle. Too much politics for my liking. I never finished it. I will pick it up again though, I hear the ending is good, or was that Entreri and Jarlaxle? And I sure have to look at Promise of the Witch-King & The Road of the Patriarch.

I also liked the Sword of Bedwyr series!

[Kyrvias]

Promise of the Witch King is actually quite good.

At the moment, I've ordered The Lone Drow and The Two Swords off of Amazon. They should come in a few days. Can't wait!

[Nightwing]

I have read everything he has written even the star wars book. His character development is great. The 1000 orcs series is some of his best work yet. My favorite books were the Cleric Quintet and the Demon Wars Saga and its follow up. I liked the first 2 books of the Crimson shadow. Salvator is all I read at this point but I can't get into the Entreri and Jarlaxel stories thier characters are not appealing to me. The reason I like Drizzt is his strong reflection of life. The Star wars book was really good until the last chapter and I thought he threw in the towel at that point.

Try the Moonshea trillogy if you like some of Salvators books. It's by Douglas Niles and is a pretty good read.