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Did you discover the books because of the TV Show?
Venexea:
I'm rather a hard ass about my CG, shows and especailly supernatural & fantasy type shows as this was. I had been meaning to see if the library had them (was pretty sure they wouldn't since the library here in Niagara Falls bites more then a vampire at a blood bank) and it wasn't till my spouse was driving his father about to fix the 'Gremline's Touch' I did with his computer that I wandered over to check it out. Hubby had been ribbing me to just go since he's the ubber reader in our family since I was nit-picking the show pretty bad and knowing the marvels of books...
I ended up falling hard for The Dresden Files Series, absorbing them in 3 days, where any other book I might finish it in 10yrs if ever. Believe me - I've pretty much go on a tingget about the series and how obsessed I am about the world. It's made a HUGE deal for me to finally find series, a genre that I so enjoy ... even though I kick myself not finding them in school years for book reports. If I had I might be a better (and published) writer now if I had found the books earlier then my early 30s.
Filo3:
I was intrigued by the commercials for the Dresden Files that they pushed on us watching the SciFi ch leading up top the series but it was not a calling for me. I finally saw it one night and was not blown away, sadly. I just lacked... something. I did love Murphy's hair though... yowza! My lord, that woman is lovely.
A year or so later, I was in the library nearby and I saw a dresden files book on the new releases shelf called, "Proven Guilty."
I piked it up and made my way through it but, as you can imagine, with no back-story, parts of it were very hard to follow but... I'll be damned if I was not hooked like a pickerel from the start. I slowly made my way through all the books at one point plunking down money for five or the novels in the series at one time at a local borders. My girlfriend though I was nuts but I laughed and told her that Butcher was simply that damned good.
After me raving about it all she finally picked up Storm Front... then Fool Moon.... then, over a long weekend, she killed all the boos in the series. I could not get her away from them. My 11 year old son has read them and he loves it all. I even went out and he and I have bought and read the Codex Alera series which is terrific on its own though my Lady could not adapt to it.
All in all, while the TV show seemed doomed to failure from the start for a lot of reasons from casting to bland scripting... I am grateful for it as it proved to be the bait that hooked my shaggy ass into the Dresden world. Butcher is one of the most incredible authors I can thin of and he has my respect and love. I hope I get to share a lot more time with HArry unraveling the mysteries of his universe.
Flinx:
I was wandering the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section in a book store, when I noticed a book that said "Book 1 of the Dresden Files" Hmm...I read the rear cover, and that was it. I checked the stores every 6 months for the next book in this amazing series. When the show came out, I did not have SciFi Channel >:( so I missed out. I recently grabbed the DVDs, and was a bit saddened by the many and varied differences.
Mikolicious:
no, I was browsing my library and they were small, black, and there were lots of them, so I read the little bio thingy and checked one out and bacame addicted. only problem is i started with Dead Beat and didn't understand some of it...lol!
Desden:
i knew of the tv show, but never watched it, what happened is i was reading a harry potter fanfiction that was a cross over with the dresden verse. pretty much based on little harry finding one of the denarian coins. so after after a quick wikipedia search and one torrent later i was reading stormfront and the rest is history, i bought all the books at once at my local bookstore and havent turned back since. im thinking of getting the tv series, worth it?
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