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Did you discover the books because of the TV Show?
maddogwillie:
I discovered the books after watching the show but I didn't start reading them because of the show. Coincidentally, around the time the show went off the air, a girl working in my lab was reading a book on her lunch break and laughing out loud every few minutes. I asked her what the heck she was reading and it was (of course) one of the books in the DF series. She loaned me her copy Storm Front and I've been hopelessly addicted ever since. I now refer to the series as "the literary form of crack" since it's highly addictive and not snooty enough to be cocaine :). I liked the show okay but I wasn't so impressed by it that I felt compelled to run to my local bookstore. For me, it was listening to that girl giggling every few minutes that made me think it must be a good series.
dragonkeeper:
I always liked shows that are similar to the show. Saw that there were books. HAD TO READ THEM ALL. My addiction is reading aything and everything I can get my hands on I'll read it. I'm trying to figure out if I want Side Jobs cnsidering some of the stories are in other books. :-\
Kellhound:
So recently started the Dresden Files, but I found out about them two years ago. I'm a comic book artist and I was getting my portfolio looked at by an editor at Delray. After making some suggestions about the art, she read through the 5 pages of my current project. I explained to the editor what is was about and she immediately ask "Have you read the Dresden Files?" I hadn't even heard of it, so I asked around. None of my friends had read em, but over the next year and a half I kept running into it being mentioned in some way or another. Then someone else sent me this. Then I put it at the top of my audiobooks I listen to while working list.
Heartsonycgr:
My sister recommended the TV show and then read the books...have now gone through them all and am a solid fan...Jim's now on my list of authors to get the book as soon as a new one comes out! Was never a solid fantasy fan b/c was not drawn into JRR Tolkien (interestingly Jim mentioned on a panel once that he thought the first book could have been improved by editing the beginning (paraphrasing here) 'two hundred pages of moving around'. Perhaps that's what blocked me and I never got into that story. Jim's stories have fantasy for sure, but the inclusion of more traditional science fictiony (the physics and chemistry of HD's world) and the mystery/PI stuff, all rolled into a great story with great characters & dialogue (Jim's just a funny funny guy and he's made Harry into one as well)--has made the DF series irrestistable to me.
Ranii:
I actuallly saw Dead Beat in the middle of a whole bunch of paper backs in a teachers classroom. Love within the first 2 paragraphs.
Coincidence? I dunno ::)
I never heard about the series before and subsequently began to look for the other books in the classroom. They were going to be unapppreciated if they would have stayed there and some of the paper backs in the rack were really banged up. I mean RIPPED TO SHREDS and halved .(The animals! as my history techer says)
I took a couple and read them out of order. I know bad.
I watched the series afterwards, but the books are always better. Still I cant help picturing a blond Valerie Cruz when I read ;D
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