The Dresden Files

[deth2munkies]

Anybody else read this series? I read the entire thing over the course of a week, I couldn't put it down.

For those unfamiliar and unwilling to google, The Dresden Filesis a book series by Jim Butcher that concerns a Wizard PI in the heart of modern-day Chicago.

Harry Dresden - Wizard
Lost items found. Paranormal investigations.
Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.
No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties or Other Entertainment.

Just for emphasis, let me list out of context a few things that happen in the series:

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Pizza-addicted faeries.
Harry getting sold on eBay.
ZOMBIE T-REX RAMPAGE.
A cult of porn-star sorceresses.
A black, Russian, atheist holy warrior with a direct line to an archangel.
Vampires that kill with sex.
Harry trying to bill God.

I absolutely love this series, and would encourage anyone to read it.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Not a lot of discussion value here and a LOT of Spoilers...

 

[JoshLalic]

I love those books.
I'm looking forward to Side Jobs and Ghost Story

 

[AceAngel]

I think I just came in my pants...

 

[quiet_samurai]

Yeah, you should totally spoiler alot of that stuff.

But I like the series alot, I just randomly bought the first book because it was only 4 bucks and got hooked.

 

[deth2munkies]

Not a lot of discussion value here and a LOT of Spoilers...

No spoilers if you haven't read it. I knew every single one of those things going in and I didn't pick up on it until just before any of those things happened. And it's both a suggestion and discussion about the series so it has plenty of discussion.

I actually ended up reading Turn Coat (book 11) first, and got tons of spoilers (all of the ones I listed) that didn't detract at all from the reading value of the others.

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OK, the only one I figured out was when he started talking about the T-rex skeleton early in Dead Beat, but other than that, none of these spoilers give you anything until they actually happen: Toot shows up in the first book and professes his love for pizza afterwards, Sanya discusses his philosophy just after we meet him, etc. but I'll add it anyway.

 

[Virgil]

I've read all of them - I think they're fantastic. It was a similar situation - I picked up the first one on my Kindle after someone suggested it to me, and I read through the entire series to that point over a weekend.

I'm right about to start a campaign using the Dresden Files RPG [http://www.dresdenfilesrpg.com] rules - [user]Trujkin[/user], [user]Myan[/user], Susan, [user]paulgruberman[/user], and [user]Slycne[/user] are playing. It's looking pretty good so far, we're going to start after everyone is back from E3 (and I finish writing up the campaign )

 

[deth2munkies]

I've read all of them - I think they're fantastic. It was a similar situation - I picked up the first one on my Kindle after someone suggested it to me, and I read through the entire series to that point over a weekend.

I'm right about to start a campaign using the Dresden Files RPG [http://www.dresdenfilesrpg.com] rules - [user]Trujkin[/user], [user]Myan[/user], Susan, [user]paulgruberman[/user], and [user]Slycne[/user] are playing. It's looking pretty good so far, we're going to start after everyone is back from E3 (and I finish writing up the campaign )

I really, really wish that I lived near enough to participate

 

[Shanannara]

Can't stand Murphy. Apart from her, I love them.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

i remember this was a tv show on sifi a long time ago i thought it was really well done but then they stopped it! i didnt know it was a book series ill check it out thanks

 

[deth2munkies]

Can't stand Murphy. Apart from her, I love them.

I'll admit she's a bit flat, buuut (Spoiler from book 12)

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Since she gets fired at the end of Changes, she seems to lighten up a bit on the last couple pages of the book, hopefully she'll become a bit less flat in the next book

i remember this was a tv show on sifi a long time ago i thought it was really well done but then they stopped it! i didnt know it was a book series ill check it out thanks

The books are so much better. Here are the main differences:

Murphy is blonde in the books and named Karrin.
Storm Front (the pilot episode that turned out to be Episode 8 and book 1) is vastly condensed and different.
Bob is a spirit of knowledge rather than a ghost and has no human form, he's just a talking skull.
Harry's office and home are 2 different places.


The thing I didn't like about the series after reading the books was that:

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2 of the books were directly made into 1 episode stories, when they (and a bunch of other continuing trends in the books) would be made MUCH better stretched out over a few episodes or a season

 

[Shanannara]

Can't stand Murphy. Apart from her, I love them.

I'll admit she's a bit flat, buuut (Spoiler from book 12)

Spoiler

Since she gets fired at the end of Changes, she seems to lighten up a bit on the last couple pages of the book, hopefully she'll become a bit less flat in the next book

I doubt it. She'll still be a self-righteous idiot. Hopefully she'll be killed off next.

 

[deth2munkies]

Can't stand Murphy. Apart from her, I love them.

I'll admit she's a bit flat, buuut (Spoiler from book 12)

Spoiler

Since she gets fired at the end of Changes, she seems to lighten up a bit on the last couple pages of the book, hopefully she'll become a bit less flat in the next book

I doubt it. She'll still be a self-righteous idiot. Hopefully she'll be killed off next.

Maybe.

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The only part of her that really annoys me is her reasoning for not being a Knight of the Cross. She's Catholic, likes helping people, and has USED the damn holy sword on at least 2 occasions, yet "I'm a cop" seems a weak ass rationale that she doesn't change even AFTER she's no longer a cop. It's like she's a broken record stuck on the same thought for the last few books.