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Did you discover the books because of the TV Show?

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celticwych:
I had the books looong before the show!!!

MonaLS:
Discovered the books because of the TV show (which I haven't seen all of), but the books are fabulous! I've read them all more than once. And recommended them to others too. :)

Gnostic:
The T.V. series came on long after I started reading Jim Butchers books.

I am an avid Fantasy/Scifi reader, and just happen to find Storm Front when it was first published in paperback.

Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down, and have been a fan ever since.

I enjoy the TV series, but would rather read the books.

antialiasis:
My boyfriend became a huge Dresden fan a few weeks ago. After listening him babble on and on about it to everybody he met for a couple of weeks, I let him show me the Storm Front episode of the TV show (while he was constantly commenting on how it was nothing like the book).

Then I saw that Harry had a death sentence looming over him. Insta-love. (I told him that I'd have started reading it immediately if he'd just mentioned that little detail.)

And then I borrowed Storm Front and realized that Harry Dresden is one of the most utterly lovable main characters I have ever had the joy of reading about. So right now I'm in the middle of Fool Moon.

fivestyle:
I actually found out about the books in a weird sort of way. First I had heard about the tv show from a teaser commercial on scifi. At that point I had wanted to know more about the show but had forgot about it. Then when the show eventually came out I kept missing it's air time and never caught an episode so I decided to look it up on line. While online I noticed that the audio books where read by James Marsters (Spike from Buffy). I mentioned this to a friend of mine who is a big Buffy fanatic and he went out and bought hte audio book to Storm Front and let me listen to it. I liked it so much that I started buying the books to read 2 at a time. By the time I got to Death Masks I decided to catch an episode of the TV show. Unfortunately I caught the episode that was based off of Storm Front, and with Storm Front so fresh in my mind I really didn't get into all the changes and differences in show. What I didn't like the most was that the show seemed to leave out the real gritty noir feeling of the books. It also seemed to not have enough of the guts, gore, and scares the books had. 

So I really had to look at the show as if it had nothing to do with the books and the characters just happened to have the same names to get into it. Otherwise I felt like I was watching a sick kiddiefied perversion of the stories and characters I loved so much...I shall use the Episode 1 to Original trilogy starwars example as a reference.

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