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DRESDEN FILES - the original discussion thread up to SMALL FAVOR SPOILERS mostly blocked but you have been warned!

#101 Imperial Historian

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Posted 22 March 2007 - 09:46 PM

Just finished Dead Beat... wow just wow the ending there has just made it my new favourite

Hmmm seems Jim's just made it onto my list of authors who I'll buy in hardback, as soon as they come out no excuses... I'll have to pick up White Night and Proven Guilty when I'm in America, Proven Guilty comes out in paperback in the UK on April the 5th to all who are interested....

#102 Tsundoku

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 01:12 PM

I've only just finished Summer Knight (Book 4). This makes me a sad panda.

In the upside, I picked up ex-library copies of Books 3 and 4 for $2 each, which makes up for it.

Loving the series. God damn, but he reminds me of Bruce Willis at the end of "Die Hard" and the end of each book.

Cheers,

La Sombra, "Die Hard" - the German version ...

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 01:56 PM

WHITE NIGHT, like 2 weeks and counting...

(preview chapters on the Butcher internut site if you care...)

- Abyss, needs his fix now...

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#104 Falco

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 07:31 PM

Fuck, and I still haven't Proven Guilty.

#105 ObsoleteResolve

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Posted 02 April 2007 - 03:31 PM

Whoa, two weeks, sweet. Didn't know about that.

I'm liking the television show, personally (Found some of the episodes online). Sweet stuff.

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!"- Kurt Vonnegut

#106 polishgenius

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Posted 03 April 2007 - 12:15 AM

Got Proven Guilty today, it's now out in Ingerland.

About 100 pages in and good stuff so far.

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#107 Tsundoku

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Posted 03 April 2007 - 10:35 AM

@The_Khan
What, are you guys doing a Dresden adaptation too? Or has that been nixed by the TV series?

@Abyzzle my nizzle
What's the word on the street about the rest of the Dresden TV series so far?

Cheers,

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#108 ObsoleteResolve

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Posted 04 April 2007 - 05:39 AM

Abyss;166443 said:

On Butcher's site you can read about how LKHamilton actually got him his first break with a publisher.

- Abyss, would almost forgive her 'Narcissus in Chains' for that. Almost.

I'll forgive her Cerulean SINS for getting Butcher a break.

I'll forgive her that sex miniplot sex miniplot sex miniplot threewaygangbang sex miniplot sex sex sex FURRYSEXWITHNICOINPARTIALFORMSEXSEXSEXSEX trying to finish miniplot MORE SECKS HERE WITHTHROATFUCKING "book" for gettin' Butcher his break.

Dresden, across the board, rocks. I like the show. I love the books. Dresden rocks. Codex Alera... well... I don't include that.

Dresden makes up for EVERYTHING.

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#109 vaiski

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Posted 04 April 2007 - 08:35 AM

White Night is out now.. mine's been just shipped.

Unofortunately I won't get it till after the holidays..

#110 Korwin

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Posted 04 April 2007 - 11:38 AM

Ha, got mine today.
Must go back home, must read book...

#111 polishgenius

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Posted 05 April 2007 - 02:09 AM

Finished Proven Guilty.

I think it's really starting to open up the wider plot that's been building for ages, there's a sense that the books will become less standalone now, as the bigger events start to intrude more.

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#112 Korwin

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Posted 05 April 2007 - 12:51 PM

finished White Night yesterday.
liked it (no surprise)

#113 vaiski

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Posted 05 April 2007 - 01:37 PM

polishgenius;173879 said:

Yeah it does, tho it'll develop quite a bit still. Butcher has said in his forum that "I'm writing 20-ish case books, and a big old three book apocalyptic trilogy to cap it off, and then the story is over."

#114 ObsoleteResolve

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Posted 06 April 2007 - 01:56 AM

Oh, White NIght IS out? Shit, going to store tomorrow, after I spend a few hours cleaning out my car (yes. A few hours. My car is a moving biohazard).

And I'd never heard that Butcher said that, Vaiski. Kinda worrisome (TWENTY books?!?!?! For fucks sake, how long is he going to be writing the books, and how can he keep up the quality that long-- although, he's kept it up damned good th us far, so that's a good sign).

Can't help but wonder what the hell's going to be happening by the final trilogy, however :-D

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!"- Kurt Vonnegut

#115 Valgard

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Posted 08 April 2007 - 09:55 AM

I just want to say damn you all I picked up the first book in this series based on the recommendations of this thread and I loved it and am now going to have to buy the rest of them. It's not like I needed food anyway.

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Posted 10 April 2007 - 01:02 PM

@Valgard - Mwa-ha-haaaa.... Food is over-rated anyways. Great books will sustain you, at least until the hallucinations kick in and you try to eat them...

In other newz, amazon.ca tells me my WHITE NIGHT copy is en route. HO-AHH!

@Sombra - re the TV show.... comes and goes with me. Some eps have been great (the single vampire and werewolf eps), some just (astoundingly bad) disappointing crap (both premieres, the possession ep, the demon ep that was marginally saved by Morgan). On the strength of the fact that imnsho, Buffy, Babylon5 and BSG all had similar starts, i'll stick with it for now.

@Vaiski - makes sense. Would mean he'd be writing the Dresden books for close to two decades, which should be enough for anyone, i would think. Plus, it's money in the bank that lets him mess with other things.

Anyrate, if anyone comments on WN here, remember spoiler warnings pls.

- Abyss, doesn't like to be spoiled except by nurses.

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#117 ObsoleteResolve

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Posted 12 April 2007 - 04:16 AM

It's good. Good. Good good goodgoodgoodgood. Hundred pages in and yeah, liking, alot.

BUY IT.

Just got it tonight, Borders got it in a few days ago, and am 98 pages into it, and, yeah. Very, very nice. Classic Butcher in good form, damned entertaining, seeing ****** again is damned sweet.

All told: well spent money on a hardcover book, reiterating exactly WHY I buy his Dresden Files (please note: I only bought Furies in hardcover, ain't even bought the rest of the crap in paperback) at the first moment that I see'em.

GOOD. BUY IT. BUY IT NOW. NOW.

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!"- Kurt Vonnegut

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Posted 12 April 2007 - 12:57 PM

Arrived yesterday, five days ahead of sched.
Crap - was really enjoying SONG FOR ARBONNE too... ah well... maybe i'll read both simultaneously...

- Abyss, loves his troubador PIs and their vampire horses...

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#119 Imperial Historian

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Posted 14 April 2007 - 08:27 PM

Picked Proven Guilty and White Night up whilst I was in America, both typical butcher, kept me smiling as I read, neither were as good as my favourite so far dead beat but still very good. Well worth the cost of buying in hardback.

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Posted 18 April 2007 - 02:07 AM

Yes, White Night was very good there was only one thing I didn't really like in the book but I'll wait a few weeks till others have read it to start talking about it even in spoiler tags.