An Oxygenarian's Last Meal
Aged I suppose that you could call me a fan of R. A. Salvatore, or perhaps more accurately a fan of Drizzt, one of the two currently surviving derivations upon the classic pulp-fantasy hero, the other being Geralt. Of course, as will happen, with derivation comes degradation, and, expectedly, the 'Legend' of Drizzt has stagnated over the years into a saga rivaling the length of The Wheel of Time, and becoming increasingly inane with every book. The first books in the series (say the first six starting at The Crystal Shard ) were good, or so I look back on them, as I have not read any of them very recently. The next dozen or so, again from my recollection, were good, if not wholesale, but at least to those invested. The intermediary books, as I am wont to call them, I have not read most of them, and I suspect a sort of hit-or-miss nature to them (feel free to correct me here). While, finally, the most recent books are... dross? It is hard to put into w...