*snort*

[sholio]

I just finished Dead Beat last night in my Dresden Files reread, in which a magic apocalypse that resembles a tornado/hurricane (not to mention a rampaging dinosaur) destroys sections of Chicago on Halloween, and the entire city is shut down for a while, and then what do I see this morning but this news item about a highly anomalous hurricane/tornado shutting down O'Hare and destroying stuff in Illinois ... five days before Halloween. What are you up to this year, Dresden? :D

(No, checking the package tracking status of Side Jobs will not make it get here any faster. *flails* If any of you read it before I get my hands on it, please do not spoil me at all?)

Also, is it just me or is LJ slow as molasses this morning?

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[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

I thought that it was just as easy to go buy the book today since it cost about the same to ship it as to go buy it at the books store. I was at the book store bright and early this morning, but no book ;-(

[sholio]

Awww, no book? Nooo!

I was going to buy mine at the bookstore, but talked myself last week into pre-ordering off Amazon, since I'm not working today and tomorrow, so I'd have to make a special trip into town to buy it. But at last check, it was still in Anchorage, so it can't get here until tomorrow at the earliest. *sits on hands*

[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

It makes all kinds of sense until you don't get the book when you want to have it!! Hopefully it will get there soon.

Fortunately the book store had their copies out when I got there the second time. Seriously, I live in the same town as Jim Butcher, you would think they would have his books out in a timely fashion!

[sholio]

Yay! :) And yeah, this is definitely the most practical way to get the book, but then there is the waiting. *tries not to wibble*

[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

It'll be there soon, tomorrow at the latest. In the meantime you can work on your nanowrimo project. (Is the soothing working at all?)

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

I love Dead Beat. I mean, seriously, Harry riding you-know-what will never get old.

Except for "Die Lied der Erlking" - I kind of want to applaud Jim Butcher for managing to get three out of four words of German completely and utterly wrong, but I'm usually too busy cringing.

[sholio]

Yeah, I remembered the scene with the you-know-what, but I'd forgotten how incredibly cool and dramatic it was. Darn it, I wish the TV show had done more with all the gorgeous visuals out of the books! There are so many scenes and characters that I would've loved to see come to life in the show.

And, aha, I remembered someone on my flist complaining about lousy German in the books, but I couldn't remember which book or who. :D What should it actually be?

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

Ohh, yes! Like in the fourth book, what's its name? With the battle in the Nevernever - that would have been gorgeous.

'Twas me. Ahem. And it should be "Das Lied des Erlkönigs," since, hey, a German mis-translation was responsible for 'Erlking' in the first place, but whatever. ;)

Seriously, though, I don't expect an author to research every little thing to death, or even care enough about language to go for more than the services of the Google translator, but it was jarring.

[padfootthegrim.livejournal.com]

LMAO! Harry's in the middle of something again, I'm sure. :P Hopefully everything will be back to normal by the 1st when I'm going to be down there. Hear that Harry? Hehe

[sholio]

Heh, hopefully you don't wander right into some kind of wizard war in progress. *g*

... and we really ought to have coffee or something before you leave! Er, what about Saturday?

[padfootthegrim.livejournal.com]

Saturday during the day I think I'm free. :) email me your phone number again, because I'm not sure I saved it. underhersilvermoon at gmail dot com. How does College Coffee House sound?

[ratcreature]

Hee.

I got a mail that my copy of Sidejobs might get to me tomorrow. And it's about 3.50€ cheaper than when I ordered (probably in part because the dollar dropped or something since then).

[sholio]

Oh, awesome! :)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

what do I see this morning but this news item about a highly anomalous hurricane/tornado shutting down O'Hare and destroying stuff in Illinois

Eh, I just called home to check in and my mom says it's not nearly as bad as they're making it out to be.

[sholio]

That's good to hear! I'm not terribly surprised; I lived in central Illinois for four years and someplace in the state was always getting a roof blown off or something. *g*

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I mean, it's plenty windy, but it didn't sound like it was striking them as all that abnormally so.

(I found an article that listed the "three worst-hit Illinois cities" and two of them essentially bordered my parents on the west and south, so I figured I should check in. My mom's reaction was "eh, it's not so bad. There's a few downed trees so I had to take a different route home from the grocery store, but whatever")

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Dead Beat was my all time favorite. It stands as a constant reminder of how cool a story can be and how awesome fantasy is :D

[sholio]

I'm not sure if I have an absolute favorite among the books (maybe Blood Rites, because it just hits my buttons so hard in so many ways) but every one of the books has some awesome scenes in it. :D Reading them in order and all at once (well, I skipped a couple to get to Blood Rites, but I'll go back and read them later) has also impressed on me how much smoother his writing style gets as it goes along. A lot of urban fantasy has pretty rough writing, and the first couple of Butcher's books are somewhat uneven, but he's really getting it down now. :D

[fitzwiggity.livejournal.com]

I just got the next three books in the Dresden Files series this morning at the library: Dead Beat, White Knight, and something else? I've read in so far as chapter two, and the Hurt/Comfort/Angst is making me squee so much my family's casting me strange looks because they don't read like I do. :(

[sholio]

Hee! :) Yes, these books definitely deliver!