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The Dresden Files, anyone read them?
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I read I think like the third book. Wasn't impressed. I've read both Glen Cook's Garret PI novels and a good chunk of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels and found them much better written and more imaginative. The Dresden book wasn't awful, but not something I'd recomend either.
WayneLigon
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IcyCool said:
One of the best modern fantasy series I've read lately. Much more enjoyable than Anita Blake has become, not as weird as the Nightside books.
I like the cast of characters the best, perhaps (who couldn't love a group of roleplaying collegiate lycanthropes?). I love the world-building aspects. I like the gradual unfolding of the true nature of the Council, and of wizards in general. And I love a hero that's simply too principled and stubborn to quit.
Read through the entire series, and I'm digging on it. Butcher's biggest problem is that he sticks waaaaaay too close to formula early on, but after Summer Knight, when Harry starts to change things, that becomes far less of an issue. Haven't read the Garrett books, but at least Dresden Files is avoiding the trap the Anita Blake books fell into: it hasn't degenerated into badly-written porn.
IcyCool
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Rackhir said:
I've never read Glen Cook's novels, I'll have to give them a look. I did read most of the Anita Blake books, but after about the 4th book in that series, they, as JimHague said, turned into badly written porn. I read the next couple books hoping that they'd get better, but they only got worse. *shudder*
IcyCool said:
Same here - kept reading because I'd enjoyed them early on, but the combination of 'hey, let's give Anita another new power!' and the sudden focus on her, ahem, fetishes, turned me off. At least I knew what I was getting into with the Mary Gentry series.
Plus, Dresden Files is getting its own offical RPG and a TV series. How cool is that?
IcyCool said:
At one point I stumbled across a discusion on a web board of the Anita Blake books and if they were suitable for non-adult readers. One person who claimed to have read them said that they were under 16 yrs old and everyone else basically said "Hey we can't really discuss them with you because we might be in violation of anti-pedophile laws".
Wombat
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I liked the first four Harry Dresden books quite a bit. Yeah, they are pretty much eye-popcorn, but they are well-written eye-popcorn. The next two were less succesful to my eye -- it's like Butcher isn't quite sure what he wants to do with the series. Still great characters and some snappy dialogue, but it's like he's trying to make the series Mean Something when, in the end, it is cheap, easy, lovely escapism.
I'm intrigued about the upcoming rpg. Sounds like it will be pretty good.
As for the tv show, well, it seems to be on hold again. And they were talking about changing Harry's name to Eric, because it did better with some focus group. Eric? Can't think of a single stage magician called Eric...
On the Anita Blake/Laurel K. Hamilton front, well, I've tried two of them and found them pretty dull. I really don't care about the colour of the swoosh on her tennis shoes and the "porn" is rather dreary stuff. Still, I know a lot of people (especially a lot of women) who love, love, love her writings.
I'm intrigued about the upcoming rpg. Sounds like it will be pretty good.
As for the tv show, well, it seems to be on hold again. And they were talking about changing Harry's name to Eric, because it did better with some focus group. Eric? Can't think of a single stage magician called Eric...
On the Anita Blake/Laurel K. Hamilton front, well, I've tried two of them and found them pretty dull. I really don't care about the colour of the swoosh on her tennis shoes and the "porn" is rather dreary stuff. Still, I know a lot of people (especially a lot of women) who love, love, love her writings.
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