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So far it’s not too bad.
I mean I don’t know that it gets worse than the opening scene of the first one
I mean I don’t know that it gets worse than the opening scene of the first one

I also would recommend The Aeronauts Windlass by him. The Olympian Affair is second in the series but I have yet to read it.

Oh you're good. You're welcome to talk through anything you remember about it if you've already read it, I simply meant keep out the memes and the "which character are you" polls and drama about the author's life.
Unless like that one book that will remain nameless it's just a rich lady confessing to the murder of a poor black man in another country. In that case, you can feel free to trash talk the novel and the writer both.
Unless like that one book that will remain nameless it's just a rich lady confessing to the murder of a poor black man in another country. In that case, you can feel free to trash talk the novel and the writer both.
Series has really and truly picked up. All of the problems I had with the first two are virtually gone. The pace both clips along and you can't tell. I'm deeply invested in certain characters now, feel like Im in the world immediately, and now trust the writer enough to keep going. Knowing that a series improves as you go helps TREMENDOUSLY more than the other way around. Or knowing it lags in the middle or what have you. I'll pay a heavy price for immersion.
Aside from that, I found the pseudo occult, pseudo Christo-mythic urban fantasy as something like what might happen if Lewis had been from Chicago and had written Narnia as a rated R noir. That sounds basically like none of those things, but it's the sort of mishmash of myths that I tend to expect from a lot of American urban fantasy writers a la Gaiman et al.
I suppose were I to guess what's coming from book three, I can see a world in which Dresden dies doing the right thing, getting crucified by all three of the swords with the nails of the cross embedded in their hilts, and someone taking that as mutual payment for a sea of debts that are all weighed and balanced on his life. And that sort of puts in perspective the methods he uses.
It's a series, I suspect, that will continue to question the nature of faith and the nature of a "good man." He references Diogenes's lamp. I would say that's this series.
"I'm looking for a man..."
Dresden, I predict, will become the man Diogenes was searching for in time. Or at least Butcher's conception of him.
Aside from that, I found the pseudo occult, pseudo Christo-mythic urban fantasy as something like what might happen if Lewis had been from Chicago and had written Narnia as a rated R noir. That sounds basically like none of those things, but it's the sort of mishmash of myths that I tend to expect from a lot of American urban fantasy writers a la Gaiman et al.
I suppose were I to guess what's coming from book three, I can see a world in which Dresden dies doing the right thing, getting crucified by all three of the swords with the nails of the cross embedded in their hilts, and someone taking that as mutual payment for a sea of debts that are all weighed and balanced on his life. And that sort of puts in perspective the methods he uses.
It's a series, I suspect, that will continue to question the nature of faith and the nature of a "good man." He references Diogenes's lamp. I would say that's this series.
"I'm looking for a man..."
Dresden, I predict, will become the man Diogenes was searching for in time. Or at least Butcher's conception of him.

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I really enjoyed Aeronaut's Windlass! I'm actually about halfway through it again, so I can read Olympian Affair. The way he describes magic being used in one of those end scenes was the most visceral, vivid, and thorough ways I've ever seen it done. Also, talking cats is always a plus.
I didn't love what they did with the rebrand on the covers though. What do you think?
F.C. Shultz wrote: "Jen wrote: "I love Dresden Files! Book #1 of the series was Butcher’s debut novel and it’s a little rough. Grave Peril is where the series starts to pick up speed. Overall I enjoyed the entire seri..."
I'm ignorant as to the rebrand, but how was the magic done?
I'm ignorant as to the rebrand, but how was the magic done?
Reflect deeply, symbols and themes and also just your own personal reflections and observations and applications.