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Just finished the book.... (Spoilers)

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ToddM326:
I finished this last night. 

It was definately a fun, easy, fast read.

I enjoyed seeing the similarities between Peter Parker written by Mr. Butcher and Harry Dresden.

Amber:

--- Quote from: ToddM326 on July 10, 2006, 06:10:04 PM ---
I enjoyed seeing the similarities between Peter Parker written by Mr. Butcher and Harry Dresden.

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*G* my BF read the book and got about...  3 pages in, and yelled across the room... "Why is Harry in the Spidey suit?"

He said he read the whole book with this image in his head of 6'6" Harry in Tobey MacGuire's Spidey suit, with his arms and legs sticking out of it.

King Shisa:
Adding my name to the "just finished" list.

I was entertained by the book... with reservations. Like many, I had a hard time separating Peter Parker from Harry Dresden, though never once did it feel like JB was trying to shoehorn a foreign character into his own mold. If anything, it reinforced in my mind how very similar Dresden is to Spidey (the warning shout of "Warning!" made me chuckle). Though JB's style complimented the Spider-Man character, the echoes of Harry Dresden were always there. That comparison took me out of the book many, many times. Separation was difficult.

I also found there to be a lot of lecturing going on. Every time Peter turned around, he was getting monologed by one of the women in his life. What a good man he is, how considerate, how much responsibility he takes for the innocents around him. Let it go, ladies. He's been doing this for a long time. He knows his role.

Long as I'm nitpicking, the arc with the kid on the team felt like an add-on, a space-filler which barely served any purpose beyond bookending the main plot.

Apart from those very, very minor quibbles, it was a good read. I liked the fact that JB kept the danger on a personal level, instead of throwing Spidey into a world-saving scenario. I always hated story arcs where human heroes (Spidey, Bats, DD, etc) are given responsibility for every person on the planet. Seems to miss the point of the heroes, as far as I'm concerned. By keeping the story focused on Spidey and those he loves, the core humanity of the man was preserved. Big bonus.

Bottom line: as long as he writes 'em, I'll reads 'em.

LordDresden:

--- Quote from: King Shisa on December 31, 2009, 10:28:22 PM ---

I also found there to be a lot of lecturing going on. Every time Peter turned around, he was getting monologed by one of the women in his life. What a good man he is, how considerate, how much responsibility he takes for the innocents around him. Let it go, ladies. He's been doing this for a long time. He knows his role.
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That's true to Peter's character, though.  It's his nature to be riven by self-doubt, he has been for years, on some level he's never forgiven himself for the death of Ben Parker, and on another there's a part of him that's never quite gotten over the fact that he was the proverbial nerdy bookworm as a kid.  He'll probably go to his grave, assuming he dies of old age, with some of that going on.

One of the discussions I liked was when Felicia was pointing out to Peter the difference between the two kinds of people who can be a threat, the kind he generally deals with as Spidey (other supers) and the colder, more professional sort of trouble that are in their way much more dangerous.  The professionals.  To borrow from Dresden, the equivalents of Kincaid, who you don't even know are after you until you're already dead.

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