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Did you discover the books because of the TV Show?
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--- Quote from: Aludra on October 14, 2009, 06:36:58 PM ---I read the books first, watched the show after Turn Coat, and loved it. I like that it isn't too closely tied to the books, because let's be honest. A book per season would be 23 seasons of TV (23 years) to finish it out? Or a book per movie is 23 movies (a little over 23 years)? That's a little bit insane. It's better not tied to the books.
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Im happy that its not tied to the books in plot, but it would have been nice if it had been closer to the books in setting/magical systems. But then, im a geek for such things. And lets face it, TV harry was awesome, but a very different wizard and person than Book Harry.
Mpol:
I am a sucker for catch phrases and blurbs. I was looking for a good Fantasy book at Borders and I came across this book. The cover was plain (at the time they only stocked the UK editions) but on teh front, it read, 'Magic... it could get a wizard killed'. I snorted out loud and turned over the back, read the blurb, liked that and then proceeded to read the first page or two and was LOVING the character of Harry and how it was told in the first person. So cool. Needless to say I am now an addict. The DF are my crack. Thankyou JB!
Mira:
I didn't know about the books because I read more pure science fiction than fantasy type novels. I didn't look for many fantasy/wizard types because so many of them were unoriginal in my opinion. The television series introduced me to Harry Dresden, then of course I had to read the books and was thrilled to find some really original work. However one thing the television series did do better, the character of Bob..
Shecky:
I don't think TV!Bob qualifies so much as "better" as he does "more doable and approachable for the visual format". And I think they did a decent job retconning TV!Bob's origins to match his necessary-for-the-screen appearance.
Iminthebook:
None of the above. My first dresden book was White Night and I bought it from the book section in Kroger on a lunch break from work because I wanted a good book to read and the intro on the back caught my attention. I got through the whole book like a chocolate addict eats a box of whitmans. I bought the entire series (at the time white night was the newest) the next day. I was not dissapppointed (until i saw how different the tv show was, hells bells the tv show didnt measure up)
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