[Aztiel]

I am liking Dresden a lot so far, although I also was not impressed with what I saw of the tv show. For whoever could not find white night, I was just at a USA Barnes and Noble yesterday and they had special displays set up all over for Dresden, and about a thousand copies of White Night on the shelves. I had to hunt around the displays to find a copy of Fool Moon.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Cocoreturns;183619 said:

just noticed -

sodding yanks.

the word is favoUr

but yeah, probably Mab involved.

looking forward to it now that i've finished reading RG......

hah. just bought my copy today.
The title on the front of the book:

"Small Favour"

correct spelling.

Clearly my subtle plan to take over the world is already having effect.
Don't worry USA, i'll soon have you spelling correctly......

[Coco with marshmallows]

well, finished it.

pretty damn entertaingas always.

though - SPOILER ALERT, DO NOT LOOK IF YOU HAVEN'T READ SMALL FAVOUR YET, IT'LL ONLY ANNOY YOU.

YES, I'M LOOKING AT YOU ABYSS.

Spoiler

soulfire - not too sure about that idea, though the giant hand thing was cool. And where the hell did Harry getting it on with the warden captain spring from? Still, at least he finally had some fun. So, if the books are building to some long term monstrous climax, anyone else think its going to be against Modoc securities (Gard's employers?) and that Ivy may get more involved?

By the way, seen as these books always happen around about Halloween time, are the other characters goinig to start aging much soon. I mean, that's ten years already. Carrying on at this rate, the series is going to last 20 years

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 22 October 2008 - 02:17 PM

[FilthyGnome]

Nopp, not watched the series either, but i plan to. First books, then series, of course.
Only books of his i read was the Codex Alera, which i find rather interesting.

[Imperial Historian]

@cocoreturns

SMALL FAVOUR SPOILERS

Spoiler

however cool Harry squaring off against the norse pantheon would be, I can't see them being the major enemies, though it's going to be interesting to learn more about them

and harry and luccio certainly came right out of left field, the whole soulfire thing was kindof cool though and makes sense with the whole balance thing between god and the devil

Oh and did murphy take up shiros sword or not? i thought she didn't, but the sword certainly seemed to accept her, and there were several suggestions she should take it up... seems to be a marked shortage of knights of the cross if she didn't

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[vaiski]

@ coco & Imperial Historian

Spoiler

On a side note, there's a short story 'Heorot' by Jim in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon that gives a bit more info about Gard and her story. The story takes place between White Night and Small Favours

Also, just noticed this on Jim's board, the title of book 11 is Turn Coat, and it starts with

Spoiler

Morgan coming to Harry and asking to hide him from Wardens.

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[Zanth13]

vaiski;285156 said:

@ coco & Imperial Historian

Spoiler

On a side note, there's a short story 'Heorot' by Jim in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon that gives a bit more info about Gard and her story. The story takes place between White Night and Small Favours

Also, just noticed this on Jim's board, the title of book 11 is Turn Coat, and it starts with

Spoiler

Morgan coming to Harry and asking to hide him from Wardens.

so when is book 11 gonna come out...

Morgan should be fun to see again...

Spoiler

I wish bob had had more time in Small favors...Thomas also...though he will be getting his own novellette it looks like right?

Any one think Nick really died? What about Michael you guys think he is done being a fighter?

Murphy didnt take up the sword btw... she turned it down... that might change later...

can someone explain to me about Urciel or whover the archange was... what do we know about him... I kinda of skimmed through important parts about him I think...

the main baddy it looks like Harry will be dealing with is the "black council" of course... I think his old mentor is part of that btw.... also im sure the outer ones or demons from beyond or whatever will have an important part to play...

and it was great to see kincaid in action again... about time....

and im done for now... maybe some more stuff to talk about tomorrow

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 22 October 2008 - 02:18 PM

[Abyss]

So now amazon.ca is telling me it will arrive the first week of May along with Abercombie's LAST ARGUMENT. Meanwhile, i keep spotting it in book stores, albeit at a higher price than my amazon pre-order.

Of course, my karma being what it is, i will likely have to travel to British Columbia to recover it once it's 'delivered'.

- Abyss, notes, for those of you not from Canada, that British Columbia is the opposite side of the continent from me...

[Coco with marshmallows]

@ vaiski, IH, xanth, and anyone else who has read small favour/favor.

Spoiler

just had a thought. what if the sudden relationship with the warden captain is manipulation on her part.

i.e., if the theory re harry's mentor being part of the black council proves true, he contatcted the warden captain, and they have decided to distract harry from the issue. In short, he's going to be manipulated by the woman he's sleeping with.

wouldn't be the first time....

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[Chance]

Spoiler

Certainly someone is a traitor amongst the counsel probably with a few wardens along...but unless something is really wierd with the Anastasia, I'd say shes one that probably aint the the traitor, shes pretty much the only one who has been decent from start.

But who knows...

If nick died from that I'd be seriously irritated, and even less likely since it seemed like some co-operation would be possible agains common enemies later...

Its uriels first apperance...he looks like the blackstaff amongst the angels from what dark fay queen said...archangel and a serious power.

I wanne know who took the coin that was in the helicopter...

/Chance...already read it twice...and why is it a year between them...

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 22 October 2008 - 02:18 PM

[polishgenius]

I was going to wait for this to come out in MMPB (since the downside of the UK catching up is that it comes out in HB first now, which seems a bit pointless to me) but I think when I have money I'm going to give in to the temptation.

[Zanth13]

Cocoreturns;286208 said:

@ vaiski, IH, xanth, and anyone else who has read small favour/favor.

Spoiler

just had a thought. what if the sudden relationship with the warden captain is manipulation on her part.

i.e., if the theory re harry's mentor being part of the black council proves true, he contatcted the warden captain, and they have decided to distract harry from the issue. In short, he's going to be manipulated by the woman he's sleeping with.

wouldn't be the first time....

Spoiler

ooo devious... That might just break harry if his new lover is a evil bitch...but I dont see it happening... now any way, shit might go down to change her later on... Also there is going to be some nice drama/soap opera stuff going down when Susan returns...

Arch Angel huh? craziness... wonder if we will see him again...

Even if Nic died his coin is still alive... though I doubt he would have died off screen like that... though he had to be close after a choking like that....

I cant wait to get my hands on the Thomas short story, I go ahead and get the novellettes also.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 22 October 2008 - 02:18 PM

[Mentalist]

went to chapters to pick up my ordered copy of "death masks" today... took them only 4 days
and I already have "blood rites" waiting at home

I'm working my way through, albeit slowly...

you may now resume you spoilerful discussion that I am not reading

ETA: now that I'm done all the books that have a nice "Volume X" of the Dresden files, on them, I need sequence knowledge.what is the order of the books following "Blood Rites"?

[Zanth13]

kud13;286877 said:

went to chapters to pick up my ordered copy of "death masks" today... took them only 4 days
and I already have "blood rites" waiting at home

I'm working my way through, albeit slowly...

you may now resume you spoilerful discussion that I am not reading

ETA: now that I'm done all the books that have a nice "Volume X" of the Dresden files, on them, I need sequence knowledge.what is the order of the books following "Blood Rites"?

it should tell you on the first few pages of the book...

but because I am such a nice guy, Ill copy and paste for you

1 Storm Front April 2000 ISBN 0-4514-6197-5 ISBN 0-4514-5781-1
2 Fool Moon January 2001 ISBN 0-4514-6202-5 ISBN 0-4514-5812-5
3 Grave Peril September 2001 ISBN 0-4514-6234-3 ISBN 0-4514-5844-3
4 Summer Knight September 2002 — ISBN 0-4514-5892-3
5 Death Masks August 2003 — ISBN 0-4514-5940-7
6 Blood Rites August 2004 — ISBN 0-4514-5987-3
7 Dead Beat May 2005 ISBN 0-4514-6027-8 ISBN 0-4514-6091-X
8 Proven Guilty May 2006 ISBN 0-4514-6085-5 ISBN 0-4514-6103-7
9 White Night April 2007 ISBN 0-4514-614-01 ISBN 0-4514-6155-X
10 Small Favor April 1, 2008 ISBN 0-4514-6189-4 —
11 Turn Coat

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 22 October 2008 - 02:18 PM

[polishgenius]

just finished Small Favour. Good. Very good. Possibly just topped Death Masks as my favourite one (we'll see when I do a series reread at some point).

Spoiler

I hope Lucio isn't the traitor. Though I'm not sure she'd have asked about Murph if she was. And also I like the way the Murph and Harry relationship is going - they might still end up together, but for now the whole vibe of them being each other's rock is cool.
Kincaid in action again- awesome. But it reminds me we haven't seen much of Blackstaff recently. Boo.
Some more nice new developments. Murph turning down the sword - there's a kicker.

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[QuickTidal]

I just finished the 3rd book (Grave Peril), and at first I was like Abyss was, and I wondered halfway through fool moon if he'd switch it up, and damn does he do that in spades! He upped the ante as far as I am concerned in the 3rd book. Michael is awesome, and some of the stuff that he says is brilliant! I also like the introduction of Leanansidhe as Harry's nasty faerie godmother. She adds an interesting dynamic. That first bit in this one racing sunset down to get to the hospital had my heart racing it was so tense. Awesome stuff.

At any rate, I have just begun Summer Knight, and will most definitely keep reading this series. It's A LOT of fun!

[Obdigore]

So I finished Death Masks... and am confused because:
spoiler for book 5

Spoiler

THERE IS NO DEATH MASKS IN THERE! PS - DON'T SCREW WITH HICK MAGES, THEY DROP SATELITES ON YOUR FACE!

I will probably read some more when I finish iwth 'Latro in the Mist' by wolfe.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 22 October 2008 - 02:19 PM

[Zanth13]

Obdigore;296540 said:

So I finished Death Masks... and am confused because:
spoiler for book 5

Spoiler

THERE IS NO DEATH MASKS IN THERE! PS - DON'T SCREW WITH HICK MAGES, THEY DROP SATELITES ON YOUR FACE!

I will probably read some more when I finish iwth 'Latro in the Mist' by wolfe.

is that not the one with the veil of christ or what ever... the one Johhny Marcone wanted.?

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 22 October 2008 - 02:19 PM

[Mentalist]

Yes, that's the one witht he Shroud of Turin

Spoiler

I think the masks may refer to the facial expressions of the victims of Nicodemus--the original priest and Shiro

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 22 October 2008 - 02:19 PM

[Obdigore]

Yup, thats the one.

Ok Kud, I guess that makes sense, I was just confused because I figured there was an assassin guild that wore masks when they killed or something cool like that.