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Anyone else read this series of books? It is an urban fantasy series that follows the adventures of a Wizard operating in current day Chicago. It's very well done.
The latest book came out Tuesday which is the 14th in the series and I just finished it.
Anyone else read this series of books? It is an urban fantasy series that follows the adventures of a Wizard operating in current day Chicago. It's very well done.
The latest book came out Tuesday which is the 14th in the series and I just finished it.
I just checked it out of the library. I first saw the Dresden Files on Hulu and one of the comments mentioned it was from a series and the books were much better than the show. Wow, were they right. I had the joy of discovering an author and a series I really liked.
This isn't my normal reading fare. I like Brad Thor, Lee Child, James Lee Burke, Daniel Silva...I'd never even heard of Urban Fantasy.
I like Harry Dresden and the craziness of his life. This isn't a sword and sorcery epic on a far away planet, this goes on in Chicago and he has regular problems along with odder ones. I recommend this series to anyone who likes the above authors and wants to try something a little different. But start with Storm Front and go with the series - it's very rewarding. If you just jump into his latest book you'll miss a lot of background history.
I was intrigued by y'all's remarks about The Dresden Files and started reading the first in the series yesterday. I'm not far into it yet but I like it so far. Harry is quite the character. What a sense of humor. He reminds me a lot of Robert B. Parker's Spenser.
I think I might have just started reading a great series of books and I appreciate getting the lead from you folks. Thank you.
I have to jump from genre to genre in my reading, that is how I discovered, Harry Dresden. I have enjoyed this series, it hooked me from the beginning.
I was intrigued by y'all's remarks about The Dresden Files and started reading the first in the series yesterday. I'm not far into it yet but I like it so far. Harry is quite the character. What a sense of humor. He reminds me a lot of Robert B. Parker's Spenser.
I think I might have just started reading a great series of books and I appreciate getting the lead from you folks. Thank you.
It is a fantatic series. The series starts a little slow and it will appear to be individualized stories but once you get through the third book you will realize that it is building to something amazing with an overall story arc. You will grow to love all the characters and the world Butcher has created. He includes just about every fantasy and supernatural creature at some point and goes into detail about how they operate and their actual nations. It is incredible how much detail he has put into building the Dresden world. He also has several Dresden Short Stories that take place between the books, some of them serious and some of them pure comedy.
If you like audiobooks, I strongly recommend checking those out. James Marsters who played Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer does them and he has different voices for all the characters and actually acts out the story. I have both read and listened to every book in the series. They are about the only audiobooks that I have really enjoyed.
I attempted to read this series on the recommendation of a friend, but after the first few books it just seemed so repetitive, simplistic, and predictable. I got as far as Death Masks and had no desire to keep going.
I attempted to read this series on the recommendation of a friend, but after the first few books it just seemed so repetitive, simplistic, and predictable. I got as far as Death Masks and had no desire to keep going.
Repetitive? Simplistic? Predictable? Those are the last three words I would use to describe this series. How can you use simplistic to describe the world Butcher has created. It is so detailed and deep that there are entire websites devoted to keeping track of everything. Things that happened in the first book will connect to something that happens in the 10th and it is continually like that throughout the whole thing. Butcher has planned this entire story out and it is definitely not predictable.
Repetitive? Simplistic? Predictable? Those are the last three words I would use to describe this series. How can you use simplistic to describe the world Butcher has created. It is so detailed and deep that there are entire websites devoted to keeping track of everything. Things that happened in the first book will connect to something that happens in the 10th and it is continually like that throughout the whole thing. Butcher has planned this entire story out and it is definitely not predictable.
In each installment that I read (as I said, up to Death Masks), the ending was predictable (to me) long before I was done with the book. There were no surprises, no twists. Each book sounded a lot like the previous book. In my opinion it is unsophisticated, like something aimed at a young adult reader. The female characters were more like caricatures than believable people, and the sex scenes were so awkward that they made me cringe. I did indeed find it to be repetitive, simplistic, and predictable.
Of course, everyone has a different opinion. Obviously, you really enjoyed it and so do many others, and that's great. But me, personally, I did not.
I read the first Dresden book. I found it good, but not great. Fun story and world. But the main character's constant, unrelenting snark got on my nerves after a while.
I finished the first book, but I didn't enjoy it enough to want to read the second.
I read the first Dresden book. I found it good, but not great. Fun story and world. But the main character's constant, unrelenting snark got on my nerves after a while.
His first book was not my favorite, but I kept reading because I liked the televisions series so much, and I was pleasantly rewarded. Every subsequent book has Jim Butcher growing as an author and his stories more complex and detailed and entertaining.
Yeah, Harry Dresden is an angry smartass P.I., but you would be too if you were having trouble making the rent, driving a crappy car and having all manners of creatures trying to kill you or seduce you or eat you.
Does anyone know of a series of a similar nature in the Urban Fantasy genre? I've read most of the Nightside series by Simon R. Green Books | Simon R Green but it's totally different from Dresden.
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