[Quiet Man Cometh]

I believe the book you are talking about Lucid, is Spine of the World after Wulfgar comes back from hell and it wierded out for a while. I didn't like that book either though I liked Wulfgar in his earlier days and post depressive spazz. I was generally not a 'fan' of the characters besides Drizzt, but then, I was 14 and angsty at the time I read Homeland so naturally I would like his character. It was the also the first fantasy book I had ever read so this whole elf thing was totally new to me.

I read the odd short story about Drizzt as well and one of the ones I liked was one about an educated goblin slave who's in a situation very much like Drizzt in that he's special among his race, but being a goblin, no one cares.