Which Dresden Book is your Favorite? Make a list, Discuss.
#1
Posted 25 May 2009 - 08:45 PM
So, which is your favorite book?
Bonus question, how would you rate them in order of your favorite and least favorite?
EDIT: Oh and, lets make this thread friendly for newbies. All big revelations go in black boxes.
Bonus question, how would you rate them in order of your favorite and least favorite?
EDIT: Oh and, lets make this thread friendly for newbies. All big revelations go in black boxes.
#2
Posted 25 May 2009 - 08:51 PM
Proven Guilty was awesome
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#3
Posted 25 May 2009 - 08:53 PM
DEAD BEAT, absolutely and without a doubt. The book is great fun. The finale is sheer urban fantasy lit brain crack candy wrapped in uber bacon and slathered in awesome sauce.
In fact, my question back in yo face Apt' is why you think WHITE NIGHT is better than DEAD BEAT?
- Abyss, ...en gard... pun intended... so to speak...
In fact, my question back in yo face Apt' is why you think WHITE NIGHT is better than DEAD BEAT?
- Abyss, ...en gard... pun intended... so to speak...
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#4
Posted 25 May 2009 - 09:04 PM
There was just something special for me about White Night. The detective mystery was one of the better ones, the flashback was awesome (Dresden is scary), and I really, really liked the showdown with Ramirez and Dresden. It's funny compared with some of the other ones like Dead Beat, Summer Knight, etc. it's not that spectacular, but I just really liked the feel of this one.
EDIT: I'll get around to compiling my list of the books in order of which I liked best tomorrow morning, to tired now.
EDIT: I'll get around to compiling my list of the books in order of which I liked best tomorrow morning, to tired now.
#5
Posted 25 May 2009 - 09:06 PM
Seconded Dead Beat. So freaking awesome from start to finish.
"Polka will never die!"
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#6
Posted 25 May 2009 - 09:11 PM
Abyss, on May 25 2009, 01:53 PM, said:
DEAD BEAT, absolutely and without a doubt. The book is great fun. The finale is sheer urban fantasy lit brain crack candy wrapped in uber bacon and slathered in awesome sauce.
In fact, my question back in yo face Apt' is why you think WHITE NIGHT is better than DEAD BEAT?
- Abyss, ...en gard... pun intended... so to speak...
In fact, my question back in yo face Apt' is why you think WHITE NIGHT is better than DEAD BEAT?
- Abyss, ...en gard... pun intended... so to speak...
Totally agree. Dead Beat was amazing. Haven't read Turn Coat yet though.
I still heart Goodkind.
#7
Posted 26 May 2009 - 08:58 AM
I just finished Dead Beat. Best one yet.
So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.
#8
Posted 26 May 2009 - 10:26 AM
I'd have to put _White Night_ above _Dead Beat_ also -- purely because I preferred Elaine to Butters as a supporting character.
My sequence would go:
White Night
Dead Beat
Summer Knight
Small Favour
Proven Guilty
Turn Coat
Death Masks
Blood Rites
Grave Peril
Fool Moon
Storm Front
My sequence would go:
White Night
Dead Beat
Summer Knight
Small Favour
Proven Guilty
Turn Coat
Death Masks
Blood Rites
Grave Peril
Fool Moon
Storm Front
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#9
Posted 26 May 2009 - 10:59 AM
Death Masks is my favourite. Was the first one where my jaw really dropped and I'm not sure he's bettered it yet. As it goes:
Death Masks
Small Favour
Proven Guilty
Dead Beat
Turn Coat
Summer Knight
Blood Rites
White Night
Grave Peril
Fool Moon
Storm Front
I think. Everything below Small Favour and above Grave Peril is pretty much even.
Death Masks
Small Favour
Proven Guilty
Dead Beat
Turn Coat
Summer Knight
Blood Rites
White Night
Grave Peril
Fool Moon
Storm Front
I think. Everything below Small Favour and above Grave Peril is pretty much even.
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#10
Posted 26 May 2009 - 01:05 PM
Dead Mask was the turning point easily my favorit, where I knew that I would be reading the files until I ran out of books...(had the first 9 at hand...)
White Night and Dead Beat shared and close second...White Night for ending, supporting cast as well as great flashback. Dead Beat doesn't need any explaining right
Small Favor and Proven Guilty as a distant third with the rest as even more distant somewhere further down the ladder...
White Night and Dead Beat shared and close second...White Night for ending, supporting cast as well as great flashback. Dead Beat doesn't need any explaining right
Small Favor and Proven Guilty as a distant third with the rest as even more distant somewhere further down the ladder...
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#11
Posted 26 May 2009 - 01:55 PM
Altho SUMMER KNIGHT was close, i fully agree that DEATH MASKS was a turning point, mostly i'd suggest in terms of Butcher's ability as a writer - the action scenes in DM are his best up to that book in the series and finale of DM is SO perfectly cinematically written you can see the movie in your head, notwithstanding the sheer fantastical elements of what is happening where in that sequence.
But DEAD BEAT was still better.
Order...
Dead Beat - still the champ
Death Masks - close second
Turn Coat - maybe because i just read it and it's in my brain.
Summer Knight -
White Night -
Small Favour -
Proven Guilty -
Blood Rites -
Grave Peril -
Fool Moon
Storm Front
...tho i have to admit the middle four couple shuffle depending on my mood. I'm certain on my top three and bottom three tho'.
Kind of funny to contrast the above with the malazan books where the first three are (more or less) everyone's faves on the basis of 'holy fnck did i just read that?', while Butcher got better with age and only started hitting the hfdijrt levels in later books.
- Abyss, ultimately, all about the earth-shattering ka boom...
But DEAD BEAT was still better.
Order...
Dead Beat - still the champ
Death Masks - close second
Turn Coat - maybe because i just read it and it's in my brain.
Summer Knight -
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...White Night -
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Small Favour -
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Proven Guilty -
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Blood Rites -
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Grave Peril -
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Fool Moon
Storm Front
...tho i have to admit the middle four couple shuffle depending on my mood. I'm certain on my top three and bottom three tho'.
Kind of funny to contrast the above with the malazan books where the first three are (more or less) everyone's faves on the basis of 'holy fnck did i just read that?', while Butcher got better with age and only started hitting the hfdijrt levels in later books.
- Abyss, ultimately, all about the earth-shattering ka boom...
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#12
Posted 30 May 2009 - 12:33 AM
I'm not ready to vote yet, as I haven't come close to getting up to date on the series yet. But I will say I flat out loved the
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in Summer Knight. I read that this morning and that whole section was pure awesome.
#13
Posted 30 May 2009 - 03:33 AM
I picked Dead Beat, but I can think of 3-4 others that I was just as consumed by.
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#14
Posted 01 June 2009 - 04:32 PM
Eddie Dean, on May 29 2009, 11:33 PM, said:
I picked Dead Beat, but I can think of 3-4 others that I was just as consumed by.
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(re DEAD BEAT)...because
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.There's a bit in TURNCOAT
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YOU WILL SERIOUS REGRET READING IF YOU READ THIS
SERIOUSLY DO NOT NOT SPOILERS NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T
READ THAT I'M TRYING TO SAVE YOU FROM YOURSELVES HERE NO
NO DON'T DO IT SPOILERS FOR SWEET FUCK'S SAKE DON'T!
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- Abyss, read that bit, sat back and had a 'hell yeah' moment.
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#15
Posted 02 June 2009 - 08:35 PM
Just finished Turn Coat. Easily my favourite and (I think) best written books by Butcher. Amazing and so damn sad. It was just as funny as the others coupled with a higher quality of writing, not to mention some cool 'unveilings' of some people, so to speak.
Still pretty sad currently,
Still pretty sad currently,
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I've grown to like him a hell of a lot more.
I still heart Goodkind.
#16
Posted 03 June 2009 - 03:52 PM
Assail, on Jun 2 2009, 04:35 PM, said:
Just finished Turn Coat. Easily my favourite and (I think) best written books by Butcher. Amazing and so damn sad. It was just as funny as the others coupled with a higher quality of writing, not to mention some cool 'unveilings' of some people, so to speak.
Still pretty sad currently,
Still pretty sad currently,
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I've grown to like him a hell of a lot more.i was both surprised and impressed that Butcher went ahead and did that.
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- Abyss, even so loved the book.
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#17
Posted 09 June 2009 - 12:04 AM
Dead Beat was, and might still be, my favorite, but Turn Coat may replace it. I haven't quite decided yet.
#18
Posted 20 June 2009 - 01:32 AM
Fox, on Jun 8 2009, 07:04 PM, said:
Dead Beat was, and might still be, my favorite, but Turn Coat may replace it. I haven't quite decided yet.
I'm pretty much convinced Dead Beat is my favorite. You just can't beat the pure audacity of
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Though I really enjoyed the change of focus to learning more about the Carpenters and the political maneuvering in Proven Guilty too. It's like he knew that he wouldn't top the chaos of DB, so he changed it to a much more introspective story, and one that worked quite well to me.
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#19
Posted 22 June 2009 - 01:33 PM
I enjoyed PG, especially the way Butcher hit whole new highs with his film references. My problem with the book is that
- Abyss, fan.
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It's solid Dresden, but coming after DEAD BEAT it had a hell of an act to beat.- Abyss, fan.
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#20
Posted 22 June 2009 - 03:56 PM
Abyss, on Jun 22 2009, 08:33 AM, said:
I enjoyed PG, especially the way Butcher hit whole new highs with his film references. My problem with the book is that
- Abyss, fan.
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It's solid Dresden, but coming after DEAD BEAT it had a hell of an act to beat.- Abyss, fan.
Oh, I also would've liked to have seen all (or even a good bit) of what you mention. I guess that's the flip side of using a 1st person PoV for your story though. Harry (and thus the noble readers of Harry) can only know what he can see. And it's not like he wasn't plenty busy throughout the book. But if I have to trade missing out on the odd event (which has happened even in say...the Malazverse) for Harry's snark and narrative, I think that's more than a fair trade.
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