For those interested, the first chapter of the newest The Dresden Files is up on Jim Butcher's website. Linkity
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...I find it very interesting that Mr. Butcher has broken the naming theme, and on a book with that title.
=========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." 
Ooh, Peggy's going to want to see this as soon as she gets back from work.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
Peggy digs the Dresden?
has she read the comics? "No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
We both dig the Dresden. I think it was the forums that turned us on to the TV show, from which we progressed to the books. And we've been fans of the books since.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
We're at about the midpoint of the series as planned, aren't we? Even if the Apocalyptic Trilogy has been bumped up to a quadrilogy, as Butcher mentioned recently.
Aside from the obvious big change here... I'm wondering if maybe the oft-repeated "ever-changing laws of magic" thing will actually come into play at last. --Sam "Oedipus is hurt and last night I almost had a lucid moment." Quote:And we've been fans of the books since. And have you read the comics? "No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
Sorry, forgot to answer that. No, we didn't even know they existed until this thread.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
oh HO.
what's a good email for you, then? "No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
I liked the original-story comics. The adaptation of Storm Front... I'd give it a meh-minus.
--Sam "Everybody was a baby once, Arthur. Oh, sure, maybe not today, or even yesterday. But once. Babies, chum: tiny, dimpled, fleshy mirrors of our us-ness, that we parents hurl into the future, like leathery footballs of hope. And you've got to get a good spiral on that baby, or evil will make an interception." Quote:what's a good email for you, then?The usual one. If you need to, go to my website and use the Email link on the menu there. -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
check. I has the comics sitting on a laptorp I will be visiting this weekend, I'll snag 'em and email 'em your way.
a .cbr file is just a .rar file in a funny hat. "No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
Cool. Thanks.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
Two things that get me about the sample chapter.
1) Mac is speaking in complete sentences. Does this make anyone else nervous? 2) Butcher is, as a friend of mine has put it, a master of The Chekhov's Gun That Isn't There (for example: Harry's blasting rod.) What isn't there in the Laws of Magic that the White Council enforces? Yeah. Makes ya wonder, hm? -- Sucrose Octanitrate. Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
ECS, it's established in the first book that Harry's 'out'. He's in the yellow pages, after all.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
Basically, the mundanes try to ignore the supernatural and the supernaturals try not to freak the mundanes too hard, both by tradition rather than by law.
A lot of the rising tension over the course of the series comes from the fact that this is becoming increasingly difficult, from both ends, worldwide. --Sam "Well that guy's nekkid."
Yup. And the first few books make a point of mentioning that the world is coming closer and closer to the point where the general public is going to have to acknowledge it.
Methinks that we are going to get to see it happen. Soon. Probably not in this book, but soon. -- Sucrose Octanitrate. Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
I will most certainly be there for the ride. This is one of like three universes I'm willing to pay to play in.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
Yeah.
This is one of the three or so 'verses that I pay for in /hardcover/. (The others including David Weber's Honorverse, Pat Hodgell's Kencyrath, and Miller & Lee's 'Liaden' books.) -- Sucrose Octanitrate. Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy.
Harry's gonna go freaking Super Saiyan. "No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies |
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