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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elemental" data-source="post: 1992540" data-attributes="member: 7931">Blood Rites, of the Dresden Files series. Having being burnt by the Anita Blake books, which tread similar ground, I wasn't too keen on looking at this series, but I'm very glad I did, even if I did unintentionally jump in at book 6. The world and characters are well-developed and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, the mystery is intriguing without being too obtuse, and the action scenes are excellent (especially the one that's [spoiler]ended by a frozen chicken falling out of an aircraft onto a vampire.[/spoiler])Comics:The third Red Star TPB. A massive naval battle unfolds between two city-sized flying fortresses while the forces gather on both sides in the spirit world. The preachiness remains slightly irritating from time to time, but when it works, it reinforces the epic nature of the story. And damn, but the art is gorgeous.Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Death. She's searching through the desert to find her surrogate father, under cover of a guard for a nuclear supply train. And then a group of cyber-bandits show up and things go pear-shaped, in a typically ultraviolent way. Great fun, and it's fun to see Alita getting medieval in a fight against a group who are nowhere near her equal.Rereading Snow Crash, and really starting to get some of the foreshadowing and deeper mythology of the book.</blockquote>