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More fangirling about the Dresden Files books
I've now finished books 1, 3 and 4 -- never did read book 2 since B&N didn't have it, and I figured I'd rather go on and find out what happens next rather than going back and getting caught up. I can always get caught up later.
OMG, I love Murphy! She's awesome! I didn't really get into her much in books 1 or 3; in 3 she basically spent the book comatose, and in book 1 she was a pretty typical tough-gal sidekick, though the handcuff scene was fun.
But in book 4 she totally kicks ASS. Murphy going up against a magic-proof troll and a nearly-unkillable plant monster with a chain saw -- that just sent me into stratospheric realms of EEEEE! I love her! I've always had this huge soft spot for the "normal person" among the cool people -- the nonmagical person in a room full of magic users, the non-badass person in a cast full of tough fighters, or whatnot. Murphy is, of course, badass in her way, but I love that there is nothing magical about her and yet she's still smart, resourceful, brave and resilient enough to deal with Harry's world.
Plus she's about my height. Us short people have to stick together. *grin*
I'm also falling more and more for Harry. One thing in fiction that really sucker-punches me is a character who has every reason NOT to be a self-sacrificing person and yet does these amazingly self-sacrificing things with no hope of getting anything back -- that is, incidentally, something that gets me from time to time on SGA, too. It's interesting how often in the Dresden books Harry is offered a choice between doing the safe/easy/pleasant thing, or the thing that's hard and painful and likely to get him killed, but *right* -- and of course he takes the hard road (admittedly with rather disastrous consquences at the end of book 3).
There are also a lot of very cool, for lack of a better term, "mental special effects" in this series. The battle between the Summer and Winter queens of Faery; Harry channeling lightning; transforming werewolves and Harry's long black coat and penthouse jungles and skulls with glowing eyes and Michael swinging his sword; it's just a very visually rich series, which sounds odd considering that it's all taking place in my head, but then, I have an overactive imagination. *grin*
At this point, I'm kind of torn on the TV series. I think they've done a marvelous job of casting Harry, but I wasn't crazy about the first episode and I'm too into the books right now to do my "bookverse/movieverse" mental divide. I've done it without difficulty before (e.g. Red Dwarf, X-Men and others), so I'm sure I'll enjoy the show just fine once I finish reading the books, but I really need to finish up the books beforehand.
They are also very bad for my ability to get either "serious" writing or fanfic done! No new chapters on "Fading Sun" ... I was reading Dresden instead. *sigh*
OMG, I love Murphy! She's awesome! I didn't really get into her much in books 1 or 3; in 3 she basically spent the book comatose, and in book 1 she was a pretty typical tough-gal sidekick, though the handcuff scene was fun.
But in book 4 she totally kicks ASS. Murphy going up against a magic-proof troll and a nearly-unkillable plant monster with a chain saw -- that just sent me into stratospheric realms of EEEEE! I love her! I've always had this huge soft spot for the "normal person" among the cool people -- the nonmagical person in a room full of magic users, the non-badass person in a cast full of tough fighters, or whatnot. Murphy is, of course, badass in her way, but I love that there is nothing magical about her and yet she's still smart, resourceful, brave and resilient enough to deal with Harry's world.
Plus she's about my height. Us short people have to stick together. *grin*
I'm also falling more and more for Harry. One thing in fiction that really sucker-punches me is a character who has every reason NOT to be a self-sacrificing person and yet does these amazingly self-sacrificing things with no hope of getting anything back -- that is, incidentally, something that gets me from time to time on SGA, too. It's interesting how often in the Dresden books Harry is offered a choice between doing the safe/easy/pleasant thing, or the thing that's hard and painful and likely to get him killed, but *right* -- and of course he takes the hard road (admittedly with rather disastrous consquences at the end of book 3).
There are also a lot of very cool, for lack of a better term, "mental special effects" in this series. The battle between the Summer and Winter queens of Faery; Harry channeling lightning; transforming werewolves and Harry's long black coat and penthouse jungles and skulls with glowing eyes and Michael swinging his sword; it's just a very visually rich series, which sounds odd considering that it's all taking place in my head, but then, I have an overactive imagination. *grin*
At this point, I'm kind of torn on the TV series. I think they've done a marvelous job of casting Harry, but I wasn't crazy about the first episode and I'm too into the books right now to do my "bookverse/movieverse" mental divide. I've done it without difficulty before (e.g. Red Dwarf, X-Men and others), so I'm sure I'll enjoy the show just fine once I finish reading the books, but I really need to finish up the books beforehand.
They are also very bad for my ability to get either "serious" writing or fanfic done! No new chapters on "Fading Sun" ... I was reading Dresden instead. *sigh*