The Icewind Dale Trilogy
 

BUY IT RIGHT NOW, dont even read the rest of this thread!

But yeah this book (dont be frightened by the fact that its a long ass book) is fucking amazing, i believe better than tolkien himself! So if you into the whole lord of the rings trilogy, u'll like this one ever better!

Are the video games based on the books?

Are they making a motion picture for this?

I've played the Icewind Dale video game that uses Baldurs Gate's engine but didn't even know there were books.

1. Yes, Icewind Dale is based on the Icewind Dale trilogy.

2. Read The Dark Elf trilogy (Homeland, Exile, and Soujorn) before you read Icewind Dale. It's much better.

I have read a couple books based on drizzt (Cant spell his name) and they are really good. I think I read one book in the icewind dale triliogy and the thousand orcs book but thats it. No time to really read ALL of the books, there are a lot of them.

First of all, who is.are the author/s??

And second of all, what are they all about??

Author is R. A. Salvatore. All his books are here I think
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...422569-8379130

They are not very sorted at all, in fact you wont even know the order to read in but you can research a bit more. Hes wrote LOTS of books that go in order on one charecter, Drizzt, a dark elf duel wield schimters with a black panther cat that kills things silently. First triology to read would be the Dark elf one then icewind dale then it goes on with Lots of triologys/sets after that.

Sounds like fun.

I need something to read until my library can get me the new Terry Goodkind book

Edit:

Just realised that the Terry Goodkind book I want is not new, but has been out for over a year...and his newest has been out for 6 months. Where've I been all this time? Under a rock?!

This it will be. Thanks for the info.

Pengu's got the order right. I liked the Dark Elf trilogy a lot more than Icewind Dale personally. Drizzt shows a lot more character in the first set, and it makes for a more involved story.

I'd reccomend Dragonlance (by Weis and Hickman) over Forgotten Realms any day, though.

Any audiobooks?


Its a hour commute to work everyday and listening to the radio is teh suxx0rz.

Audio books I'd reccomend:

H2G2

Dragonlance: (in this order)
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning


Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins

This thread is about icewind dale bob ;( you changed it into dragonlance. Lance is equally good to me....

Well, if the reader were taking the thread's advice, he wouldn't even be reading my posts. Besides, he asked what was on audio. I searched for FR books on CD or cassette at Amazon.com and didn't find any, so I posted what I found.

Thanks Bob :)

But yeah bob is right, if my friend didnt give me this book he would have given me the first dragon lance, which i hear is one of the best fantasy series....ever.

I should probably go pick some of these up and actually read for once.

They're a hell of a lot cheaper in book form than audio form.

Again, I reccomend Dragonlance over FR.

I'd say read

Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Soulforge
Brothers in Arms
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins
Dragons of Summer Flame
The Second Generation
Dragons of a Fallen Sun
Dragons of a Lost Star
Dragons of a Vanished Moon

in that order. Once you read the first couple, if you enjoy reading in general, you'll definately want to read more of them.

Anyhow, they're only like $6-7 paperback in store, and you can get em for like a buck each if you look online. For example, there are 5 listings for a cent and 9 more under a buck at Amazon for The Second Generation.

I stopped reading Dragonlance after I read all the books with the original crew and the spinoffs written by Weis and Hickman, but that's like... 20 or so books I think. It's a damn fine series. Be careful though. You'll catch yourself reading during class. I missed almost the whole semester of Cal 2 because I was always reading during lecture.

Sound like fun...another series to go on my list...another couple of months of reading...

Anyone read Robin Hobb's ones about Fitz out of interest?? There's...9 I think in three trilogies. First lot something to do with Assassins in title, second to do with fools and third to do with ships??

There was a trilogy I read in 8th grade that I really, really loved, but I can't remember the name, the author, or the names of any of the characters.

The books were centered around a couple small groups of people that fought in and led a war. They were fantasy books, and the setting was pre-modern, but it wasn't Earth. The organizations in the books had an Italian mob sort of feel.

The only complete memory I have from the books is that one of the characters gets knocked out and wakes up in a sewer in a city.

Anybody have any idea what these books might have been?

Maybe it was the trilogy by George R. R. Martin? A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, and A Storm of Swords.

I just bought A Clash of Kings earlier today because this friggin' author rocks. I used to read a lot of fantasy books when I was younger and I just recently picked up this series. I reccommend it to everyone who likes fantasy at all. 10/10.

:-\ I read the reviews of those books. The setting is definately similar, but they're not the same books. Anybody else? I know it's a reach, but I'd really like to be able to find these books again.

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I just emailed my Jr. High. I asked if I could come and look through the library in hopes of finding the books. *crosses fingers*

They probably won't get back to me until fking fall, but I guess we'll find out.

Its not this one, but The Tripod Trilogy is pretty good (The White Mountains, City of Gold and Lead, and The Pool of Fire)

Yeah, the White Mountain series was pretty good; just don't make the mistake of picking up the prequel (When the Tripods Came or somesuch), because it's a snore fest.

I recently saw the War of The Worlds and it kept reminding me of the Tripod trilogy, or is that just me?

I have gone thru Dragonlance and put my order in for the next 2 in your list Bob. Its no LOTR but its still very good none the less. Thanks for the recomendations :)

Woot. Glad ya liked it.

My favorites are the 2nd trilogy listed there. Raistlin > All

Raist is pretty bad ass. Too bad hes a bastard tho.

Oh that makes him all the better, though.

Incredibly powerful + extremely physically fragile + emotionally troubled / evil(?) = great character.