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Title: Baldur's Gate: A Novelization by Philip Athans ISBN: 0-7869-1525-0 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 08 July, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.45 (69 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Did he make someone angry?
Comment: Wow, why all the anger directed against this book? I thought it was fun, stuck pretty well to the computer game (like that could even be possible) and was pretty good. Knocking the author's storytelling ability is a little silly, considering the story is from the computer game. Also, it seems like the people who hate this book so much haven't actually read it all the way through. Sure Abdel starts out very violent and nasty, but hey are we forgetting he's the son of the GOD OF MURDER?! Of course he has a dark side and kills easily. The story is about how Jaheira (a character I really liked from the game and liked more in the book) tries to show Abdel that he's got a choice. I hope there's a sequel so I can see Abdel's transformnation. I liked that he set up Tamoko to try to do the same thing for Sarevok, but Sarevok had gone too far toward the Bhaal in him. Tamoko is a really cool character in the book, wasted in the game, so there's your new character development. I've read a few computer game novelizations and I always find it funny that people take them so personally. If you want to just have fun reading, read this, if you take everything somebody does that's not what you did when you were playing the game personally, don't read any of these books. I, for one, liked this one. PS: I know Arkham is a fictional town -- see how easy it is to fake these reviews. I think most of the bad ones here were written by one angry, rude person.
Rating: 2
Summary: So so Forgotten Realm book
Comment: "Baldur's Gate" is based on the popular computor game set in the Forgotten Realms. In it Abdel, a young but experienced sellsword, is charged by his dead adopted father to solve the mystery of why the iron supply in the land is being ruined. He is escorted/guided by a half elf Harper, a flesh eating ghoul, and assorted other charactors as he solves both the political mystery and the secret of his heritiage. I really wish that Amazon.com had a two and a half rating, because that is what this book deserves. Where it is good, like some of the descripition of the mystical realm of The Sword Coast and some of the action, it is excellent. But where it is bad, like with the cardboard charactors and their relationships, it is equally as extreamly a failure. The action and fight scenes that is in the book are exciting and graphic. The book is fairly short, so you can get through it some what quickly. But it also has a tendency to start a chapter after a fight is finished, and some of the description of the places Abdel and company goes is not described very well. The love story between Abdel and Jaheria, the half elf (who is married, by the way) seems like something out of "Melrose Place"; escpecially when Abdel kills the husband. And Abdel seems just a little too psycotic; he loves killing too much. Although this is explained at the end, the blood lust still seems too fake to be a real. Some of the scenes are obviously borrowed. Doppelgangers are murdering important politicians and assuming their identities to further their master's cause. This reminded me a lot of Robert E. Howard's King Kull story "The Shadow Kingdom". To me, though, it's biggest mistake was the end; or the lack there of. The book dose not so much end as it just stops very abruptly. In the end, "Baldur's gate" isn't bad, considering it had to stay within the confines of the game it is based on, but it could have been much better.
Rating: 1
Summary: Bites
Comment: "Knocking the author's storytelling ability is a little silly, considering the story is from the computer game."
That's the problem. I believe the author probably didn't put much effort into this novel because he just saw this as a story from a computer game. If I want fan fiction I can read it for free on the internet. I read the book and played the game, and I enjoyed playing the game more then reading the book.
If you put your heart into writing a book it show. RAS is a better writer then this because at least he cares about his characters and story telling ablity. That's why R.A. SALVATORE is a popular fantasy author and Philip Athans is hiss at by any and all readers.
The reason that this book gets bad reviews is not because it is one angry and rude reader responding. The reason this book gets bad reviews is because its readers are literate! They expect books to be good.
To have no depth of character, describe details poorly, and have unbelievable character emotions are NEVER allowed in GOOD fiction. Just because you aren't writing for Random House or Del Rey doesn't mean you have to suck.
This isn't about following the game. I could care less if he wrote about what happened in the game. I already played the game! I just want a GOOD book. That's all I'm asking.
Is that too much to ask for in modern Fantasy literature?
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Title: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn by Philip Athans ISBN: 0786915692 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (Forgotten Realms) by Drew Karpyshyn ISBN: 078691985X Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Pool of Radiance: The Ruins of Myth Drannor (Forgotten Realms) by Carrie Bebris ISBN: 0786913878 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 20 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Parched Sea (Forgotten Realms Novel: The Harpers, Book 1) by Troy Denning, Fred Fields ISBN: 1560760672 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title:Baldur's Gate 2: The Collection ASIN: B00009ECGG Publisher: Interplay Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $15.99 |
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