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Dresden Files: Book 11, Turn Coat, Out Now! (Spoilers!)
Nik Huze
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Anyone else reading this series? If you haven't heard of it: It is about Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, a professional wizard for hire living in Chicago. He's in the yellow pages. Mostly he investigates the supernatural and helps the Chicago Police Department solve special crimes. Really cool urban fantasy and noir mystery. It a great alternative while you wait for the next great fantasy epic. The novels are only 300-400 pages, pretty much stand alone affairs, and the author is young and pumps them out in timely manner without losing any quality. There was even a short lived SciFi Channel tv show that was decent, though it didn't do the books justice.
Sick of all this Twilight crap and wanna see some vampires burn? I assure you, they will burn. Harry also does battle with werewolves, trolls, faeries and just about any fantasy creature you could name. Pick up the first book, Storm Front, at your local library today. Or if you already have, lets discuss.
Sick of all this Twilight crap and wanna see some vampires burn? I assure you, they will burn. Harry also does battle with werewolves, trolls, faeries and just about any fantasy creature you could name. Pick up the first book, Storm Front, at your local library today. Or if you already have, lets discuss.
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Never heard of them...
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Shit.
I've only finished up to 7.
Well get reading!
Small Favor will make you shit bricks, no joke.
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N..nothing but a miserable pile of secrets?
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good entertainment
I need to pick up the others. These are the campy kind of awesome that are great for vacation or travel reading.
I can blow through these damned books.
Magic is real, and all the crazy legends and myths are too, they've just been pushed into the background by the proliferation of mundane people and science. Harry Dresden is a wizard that operates in modern day Chicago as a wizard for hire. Most of his money comes from the Chicago PD when they have to bring him in as a "special consultant" for the really strange shit that happens on occasion.
I have the first comic, Welcome to the Jungle, its surprisingly good. Have any others been released yet? I can't seem to find them.
I was in a D20 modern game like this, except we where called in by the FBI. My guy was a non-magic though. I punched the shit out of some goblins and a wizard who where using magic e-mail to steal credit card numbers.
Wizards - The White Council
Fairies - The Summer and Winter Courts
Vampires - the White, Black and Red Courts
Also: Werewolves, Wild fey, and The Marcone Crime Syndicate, The Knights of the Cross, the Blackened Denarius.
There is a lot of continuity now, but the books are easy reads.
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If this helps, imagine the first few good Anita Blake books and how they blended fantasy with modern life. Now imagine that the main character is a man, and a wizard, and a world class wise-ass. Now finally, imagine that series didn't crap out and turn into hardcore porn but got progressively more and more awesome. That's the Dresden Files.
I'm almost done re-reading them in anticipation of the new book, I'm about a third of the way through Small Favors.
Wolfoids?
Werewolves
Lycanthropes
Hexenwolf
Loup-Garou
Sadly, Wolfoids and Witchaloks have not made an appearance yet. Maybe book 20?
Oddly enough the most bad ass of that list? The one with the fucking french sounding name.
Damn it man, I already have a huge reading list!
Who Harry knocks through a fucking building.
The way magic works in the Dresden Universe is very cool, big spells drain you. And it's all about appropriate force, leverage, and energy. Harry might be able to lay down a fist-thick column of blue-hot fire through the chest of a bad-guy. But he's going to feel it afterwards.
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http://www.dresdenfilesrpg.com/
Then again, I've never actually played a tabletop rpg game before.
On that note
Is his hand better yet? As of Dead Beats it was still sorta melty.
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Edit: Beat x2 and I didn't spoiler tag it. Should I add "spoilers" to topic title? I don't know how to change it.
There is all kinds of stuff being talked about that should be hidden from the view of those of us who haven't read that deep into the series yet.
I hope to fuck we finally find out who the traitor is, I've been waiting long enough.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/wishlist/1A4GKH199FBMU/ - My wishlist
The doctor is right. Untagged spoilers are my biggest pet peeve ever and I hate having my entertainment ruined. Everyone just take a sec and edit any of your posts that should be tagged. Thanks!
I am thinking that the Ancient Mai is the traitor. And don't ask me why.
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