Not so long ago (little less than a year) I started reading the Frogotten Realms series "Legend of Drizzt" (13 books so far) and "The Hunter's Blades" trilogy.
The books are cool and all (If they weren't, i would not have read so much) but there's something that's been bugging me since the beginning of the series: I don't agree with the way how Mr. Savatore deals with the moral of the series.
In the books we see Drizzt's constant rants against so much people that I don't know where to start: people that have no friends, people with pride... and while some of those points might be valid, I see that the character is pretty flawed too, assuming things about people that he doesn't know or making up justifications or excuses for his and/or his friends' behaviour: E.G. Drizzt gets furious because Artemis Entreri kills a Duergar, showing his cruelty and his evil heart and, less than two books before Drizzt spends his spare time walking around Mithral Hall killing duergars "just for fun".
Another example is that, some points (in Servant of the Shard and The Road of the Patriarch) I just don't understand why Mr. Salvatore uses his typical "Drizzt diaries" introductions, while the nooks revolves around Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle, who are miles away from Drizzt and with none of his actions affecting him in a direct way. And the election of Artemis Entreri as the example of everything that is wrong... WHY? the character is not inherently evil, is just self centered and proud. Is that so wrong? In the book he never rapes, or makes a needless kill, he is just a mercenary, not an entity of evil. I think that to put him as a sign of everything wrong is a lousy election, to say the least.
And if it was just in the diaries of Drizzt, you would think that it is that the character is purposely flawed, to make him appear more realistic, but in general, the whole book keeps the moral directives that Drizzt expresses in his diaries, to the point that some times the reading becomes a trial. In that way, I compare it to the Dragonlance series, where you never read a character wasting pages and pages just disapproving what other character do, not even when such character betrays or even kills his friends (Kitiara, Raistlin...).
Anyhow, I wanted to start this tread to see if anybody out there thinks the way I do, and to discuss the "whys" and "whats" of Salvatore's way of writing. Or is that I'm just crazy and there is not a single soul that thinks the way I do?