I am going to say two letters that may or may not get me bumped from the forum...

D&D.

Yes, Dungeons and Dragons. "Satan's game" as it has been called. Supposedly the game that has destroyed so many lives when people could not tell the difference between life and fantasy.

Regardless of your views on this subject, within are the most in depth worlds ever created.

There is an author who was given the rights by the creators of D&D and told to "Just be original."
R.A. Salvatore
The books he wrote are in my opinion some of the BEST fantasy works there are.

Featuring Drizzt Do'urden, a dark elf raised in the city of Menzoberranzan, known for its cruelty, spectacles of death and its hatred for the outside world.

Yet Drizzt, a dark elf born with a true heart, hating to end life unlike his kin, flees to the world above (Along with his beloved panther Gwynwhyvar) and finds allies who accept him and look beneath his ink black skin to see the hero lying beneath.

(Also it has the BEST fight scene descriptions I have personally ever seen, you can visualize every swing, parry, dodge, thrust... You name it)

I'll back you up in any firestorms that might occur here. D&D does have a very rich and detailed world, and it can't really be considered cliche either.

I don't think I read Salvatore's books specifically, but I did read some of the Dragon Codexes and Silver Dragon Mysteries.

Is Drizzt Do'urden set in the D&D universe?

Thank you. This can be a touchy subject and it's nice to know I have an ally.

Which of his books would you say is the best?

It would have to be the Dark elf trilogy (excluding all the star wars novels he wrote) Telling the story of how Drizzt came to be.

My favorite is Sojourn: Wherein Drizzt has left the caverns he has lived in all his life and begins to adjust to a world with a sun. He becomes the mysterious, misunderstood savior of the mountain people and gains friends among the dwarf clans.

I aspire to one day be able to write like Salvatore, If I can do that then I will be happy.

I've been meaning to read the dark elf trilogy. How clean is it?

Pretty clean, (Obscuring the lovely violence) there is no language and only a little "questionable content" No real visuals or anything just stating the fact that it happened.

If you want to borrow them I have them all in one book.

One of my family members loves this man's work. I haven't read any yet myself, personally.

Didn't know they were in any way related to D&D, but I don't know anything about that kind of stuff so I shan't bicker over it.

Please tell me the D&D movie that came out a long time ago was not, in any way, related to these books. I thought that movie was really bad. Not really content wise, so much as it was just plain pathetic. But I've never read these books, which is why I'm asking. I'm compiling a list of fantasy works I need to read, and I'm considering these, so long as everyone can tell me the books are nothing like the movie.

I asked my family member about this D&D relation and got a pleasant dissertation on the subject. I am told that there are other books based on the D&D universe - DragonLance, I believe? - that had to follow stricter plot rules. There is more freedom in the Drizzit books. Only recently did they start putting the D&D logo on the book spine.

Just FYI.

Nothing at all. Rest assured.
When they do get around to making a Drizzt movie they better do it right or else me and an army of fans are going to break down their doors and slaughter them mercilessly.

*chuckles * okay. Then this is worth me looking into for my book list and research.

Yes, they are my favorite books. I would readily recommend them to anyone.

I was at first thirsty to read this guy's books, but when I finally got to one, I found that it dishonored God, being filled with vile language and content which wasn't good even to my eyes, so I would not suggest anyone to read him.

Ok....that's rather vague.

If you can watch Lord of the Rings then you can read these books.

Aside from the occasional D word there's nothing. And it was written in a pre-established world. Salvatore had no control over how the religions worked. But I think he handled them rather well. At least evil is clearly defined in these books.

For something to be God honoring it doesn't have to scream Bible in every sentence, you being one of God's creation need only to do the very best that you can, showing that you are not wasting the time God has given you, and are TRYING to do a good job.

I got one of his books from the bookmobile yesterday, clueless of whether or not I would read it. But I knew there was a thread on here somewhere, and here it is! Now off I go, and I'll let you know what I think when I'm done.

(I hate book covers where you can't tell title from series from author... but I think this one is called Homeland from a series called "Legend of Drizzt" (how do you say that?))

I enjoy R.A. Salvatore's books, though my favorite series of his is the Cleric Quintet. That series is part of what really pushed me over the edge into seriously writing myself, so maybe I'm a bit biased.

He's got a good knack for writing a strong action scene.

His style can grow a bit repetitive at times (at least that's how it seems to me) but I still look forward to reading his books from time to time.

I haven't read a Salvatore title in a long time, his book The Two Swords was really what kind of changed my perspective on fantasy. (Before LotR). Sojourn was a real good one, I think that was the last one of his I read. Any further recommendations, I'd kind of like to pick up another one sometime.