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Did you discover the books because of the TV Show?
Nyte:
I am a blend of the two.
I had never heard of Jim Butcher before. My father and a co-worker are both fans of the show. They both tried to get me to watch, but I was totally against it: "A dude with Wizard on his office door? Are you kidding? Good grief, scifi is going downhill". Remember that I did not posses any knowledge of the books at all, just heard bits a pieces about the series.
I was rummaging around Amazon one day and I caught the cover to White Knight. I thought the cover looked interesting so I decided to garner a closer look and, to my surprise, saw that it was a Dresden Files novel. Dresden Files, isn't that the show my dad and bud at work watch? I read the reviews and decided that I would check it out. I went to the local bookstore and found a singe copy of Storm Front.
I decided that it would be best to read the book first and let it be the deciding factor as to whether or not I would invest time into the viewing of the series.
I enjoyed Storm Front so I gave the series a go.
Series is OK at best. The books -- as is always -- are loads better.
Lesson to myself, "Never judge a show before you look at the book's cover".
Nyte
Divinity:
I saw the previews when I was watching one show or another on the Sci-Fi channel. After watching a bunch of the episodes...I eventually got around to buying all but one of them at Barnes and Noble (they didn't have Proven Guilty). I then inhaled the books in like a week...and then went and found Proven Guilty. Now I've read that, and I'm starting to re-read White Night. I'm taking it slower this time.
After I get done with that, I think I'll start re-reading some of the other books. Not sure if I'll start from the beginning, or somewhere in the middle.
I think it is part of my goal to get as little sleep as possible. The week where I was reading the books was right around finals :D And true to my goal, I didn't get much sleep. Thank God for the summer!
graniteangel:
I'm only a cool kid because as a bartender and someone who used to work as an assistant manager in a book store- I know what I like and I ask others who read what I like for any good scifi that isn't all about outer space and the future.
I'm more of a fantacy kinda girl than strictly scifi. It's weird because I'm not a complete geek, just a little weird. Being a pisces helps.
My friend Taij and I were talking one morning. He had been up all night driving cab and I was as usual serving him his umpteeth rum and coke at 8am in the morning while I tended bar. We're both into Laurel K Hamilton books, and I was complaining that as much as I like romance and don't mind reading the occasional "romp" scene - it gets kinda old. I want to read about the monsters and the spells. I want to get down to the nitty gritty with cheesy yet familiar humor. I want to read a book that makes me want to forget everything that's going around me, and devour a story that leaves me feeling thrilled and fulfilled. Not wading through the murk of simply pretty words and how sweat beaded and glistened off someone's back or thigh or whatever.
Taij recommended Jim's books to me, and actually went home and got the first two for me to borrow. I've been hooked ever since!
I think Jim throws just enough heat in there, but without turning it into a porno. I like sex, but some of these authors just leave out such good potential "Meat" (not that kind of meat) and replace it with a chapter full of crap!
I've read 6 of the books, and not all mainly because everytime I pick up one of his books I'm done in two days. I'm trying to let it linger if you will.
Reading books after watching a movie has always left me a little off. I try very hard to find things I like by searching the internet or asking my "trendy" Powell books employees what they think ::). But I guess if a movie or show can bring someone to a series they like- it's all good.
Evergrey:
A friend on Myspace had the cover art for Dead Beat as his picture and I asked him what it was. He explained that it was a book about a wizard in Chicago, which intriguied me. He didn't know there were books before Dead Beat and Proven Guilty, so he told me to buy those, which I did. Then I found out there were more books, so I waited on reading those two and found Storm Front. Then I saw the commercials for the TV show. I had to catch up on a bunch of R.A. Salvatore books, so I let my brother read Storm Front, and he started picking up the other books I didn't have.
Around the time the show's season ended, I finished reading R.A. Salvatore's Road of the Patriarch, and that's when I started reading Storm Front. Now I'm about 50 pages into Summer Knight. So, I watched the show before I read the books, but I knew of the books first.
Divinity:
--- Quote from: Evergrey on May 27, 2007, 05:54:37 AM ---So, I watched the show before I read the books, but I knew of the books first.
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You just blew my mind.
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