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DF Spoilers / Re: Did I miss something...?
« on: April 19, 2022, 11:04:08 AM »
In the museum where the Archive is held, he talks about the power running thru the walls to fuel the circle.... says it was far beyond anything he'd ever be able to do, even with Lasciel. Think he calls it Archangel level, and says so again in the chapel after Michael is shot. Also says he can only think of one Archangel that would help the denarians. He doesn't SEE Lucifer, but sees his handiwork. Maybe angelic/demonic power is a little different, when they see Michael's safe room it was identified as Angelic... Raphael, or one of his underlings, maybe?

Which underscores the gift that Uriel gave him in that moment, Soul Power. It counters the power that Lucifer can throw around, but at that moment when he suddenly he had it at the aquarium, Harry had no clue of what was happening.  To a large extent he still doesn't understand the gift that he was given. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Toot Toot and the dread cat Mister
« on: April 18, 2022, 08:31:05 PM »


I know he mostly heated his apartment with a fireplace, but I don't remember a wood cook stove.. Harry never did much in the way of cooking.  I know he had a real "ice" box, but he didn't really need that either.  When I was in the Peace Corps years ago in Liberia, we used fridges that ran on kerosene, they worked fine and were safe.

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Law and novella
« on: April 18, 2022, 04:13:26 PM »
Maybe Amazon requested it from Jim as part of an adaption package? To sweeten the deal on a full blown Reacher style adaption of the Dresden Files?
Or it is a "hook," to get you to join though supposedly you can quit at any time.  They have something like it for Kindle, I have a friend who belongs to that.  I have a Kindle, and it has it's uses, but I prefer reading the old fashioned way, turning the pages of a book.  So it may be an attempt to get their sales up, and with all his personal problems the royalties might give Jim a financial boost.  What I don't understand, and I know nothing about audio books is it says it is two hours long..  I wonder how that translates into pages?  And will we ever see it in old fashioned book form?

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Law and novella
« on: April 18, 2022, 11:25:58 AM »

So far it looks like it is an audible book only, the only reason it is free is Amazon wants you to join
their audio book club for fourteen dollars or so a month. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Toot Toot and the dread cat Mister
« on: April 17, 2022, 08:14:15 PM »
A lot of old gas heating systems are no longer considered ‘safe’ because of carbon monoxide build up or risk of explosion, so you can’t get them fitted anymore.

Perhaps, but didn't Harry have a gas cook stove?  I don't think it was a wood burning stove.  Also while you may not be able to get a new old fashioned water heater, but as long as the old one functioned, you could keep on using it.  So unless Harry's landlord decided to replace all the old water heaters in the building, it wasn't a problem.

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And yet Sheila was still more a real girlfriend than any that Carlos has ever had.

Doesn't matter, she was still an illusion that played off of Harry's weakness with women.  That is why Nic picked her coin to match up with Harry in the first place.

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Law and novella
« on: April 17, 2022, 08:08:14 PM »
After Battle Ground.

Might go to the library though to get it since I have all the other short stories in the anthologies that he was a part of the last few yearsl

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DF Spoilers / Re: Is the White Council afraid of Harry Dresden?
« on: April 17, 2022, 08:06:35 PM »
It was heavily alluded in the zoo short story segment from Mouse' POV that Cowl and Kumori were the ones who stole the litter of foo puppies from the monastery in the first place.

I've been trying to get "would Mouse still recognize them by scent and hold a grudge?" into an AMA since then, mainly because his lack of hostility toward Elaine in WN might exonerate her if so.

I think Mouse would remember very well if Cowl stole him and his brothers and sisters and I doubt he will be forgiving.

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DF Spoilers / Re: At what age does Talent usually manifest?
« on: April 17, 2022, 11:31:34 AM »
Perhaps, but doesn't Harry's mother's spirit say something along the lines of Harry has his father's height? Maybe Harry is not unusual amongst Dresden men.  I seem to recall Bill Walton and Patrick Ewing both having sons who played in the NBA who were roughly Harry's size

Yes, and we have no clue whether or not Harry has uncles or aunts, or what his maternal grandparents looked like..  Harry's height could have come from them, also each generation
appears to have gotten taller because of nutrition and other factors.  Though admitted six foot nine is way above your average height.. Which brings up another inconsistency, Jim writes Maggie like a much younger child than she is, he often writes Harry like a much shorter man than he is.  For years he supposedly slept in a twin bed, my son at six foot seven has a hard time in a standard double be, it is almost impossible if he wife is in it with him. The other is the Blue Beetle, especially when he'd have other people in it with him..  My friend had a Beetle and my brother who was six foot eight could hardly fit in the front seat.  My son has a hard time in my Honda Element, he can just fit with the seat back as far as it will go.  There was an old advertisement for the Beetle with Wilt Chamberlain who was over seven feet, "they said it couldn't be done, and it couldn't."  He didn't fit at all.

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Maybe other Denarian-infected people did not have the opportunity to experience that psychic attack, which allows the Shadow to free itself FROM the host, and live it's own existence? The psychic bullets shattered Lash's handcuffs tying her to Harry. She was now free to grow, and trusted Harry would find a midwife of sorts to let her free to live. Harry now free, Lash now free. The old people were like trying to separate conjoined twins... until the right case came along, with suitable support, it was not likely to be successful. Physical attempts could not part the pairs, and we normals are rarely in a position to face magic. But now, a wizard faced magic, and the parasite had had time to grow stronger herself, so... viability?

It is my opinion that it was Butters who really saved Harry in this case, that, and the soul gaze he had with a Denarian the first time he encountered them in Death Masks.  The soul gaze showed him what the host is really going through, Harry wanted no part of that.  Butters made him aware that Sheila was an illusion, then he realized that the Shadow of Lasciel was in his head. Then his will took over and he was able to resist and finally change her.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Toot Toot and the dread cat Mister
« on: April 17, 2022, 11:14:51 AM »
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You know, those cold showers never made sense. You can get those little solar bags campers use to heat up at least a little water. Put it out the window with a line coming in. Thermal absorption is not high tech. Blowing out circuits can be done with an EMP, and maybe magic is similar. EMP won't do crap to the bags.

No, it never did, especially when an old fashioned gas water heater was basically a pilot light and a valve.  What is more the likes of Thomas and other occasional guests would use it.  Especially in Molly's apartment he had hot water. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Law and novella
« on: April 17, 2022, 11:10:11 AM »

  My question is the new collection, new stories aside from this one or just a reprint collection of the ones he has already written and published in the collections with other authors? 

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Law and novella
« on: April 16, 2022, 08:37:59 PM »
I do not like that at all. If someone writes a story it should be widely available for a reasonable price not something for a subscription I do not want. Hopefully it will be available via normal channels later.
Amen

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DF Spoilers / Re: Should Jim skip to the BAT?
« on: April 16, 2022, 04:50:57 AM »
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It's true that life events do make things difficult sometimes, and he has my sympathy for that, and it is also true that artistic jobs are slightly different than the regular jobs, inspiration and mood can play some part in your performance. However, artistic jobs are still jobs if you're getting paid for a product, and you have to produce. It is something that Jim himself has said multiple times in interviews, at the end of the day, writing is his job, so, he's got to do it.

Mine as well, but understand an artistic job isn't like any other job, it is an act of creation.  That comes from the heart and an intangible called creativity, you just can't pull that out of a certain part of your anatomy, or you can, but the product won't be that good. Also more books don't necessarily
tell the story better, nor do rushed books.   

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DF Spoilers / Re: Should Jim skip to the BAT?
« on: April 15, 2022, 09:42:21 PM »
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No skipping to the end, but it's past time for Jim to get a co-author (or more) who can crank out a book every 12 or 18 months, with Butcher providing the outline, direction, and editing.  As a fellow human, I certainly sympathize with Butcher's RL events; many of those events are very painful and some are time-consuming.  But his events are the type of things we each go through, yet have to continue to function in our jobs and in other aspects of our personal lives.  I've read many an author explain their process - I get up in morning, I sit down, and I write XXX words.  Viola, a year later, the novel is finished.  Butcher apparently isn't of that persuasion so he needs co-author(s) who can write on a deadline regardless of what RL throws at them.

Being an author isn't exactly like one's day to day job, I am willing to cut him some slack there. However having said that, he is writing obviously, a new series.. 
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As a customer, I expect an end to the series.  I thought I'd live to see that but those odds grow longer each day nothing is published.  For that reason, I certainly would never recommend anyone start this series - or any other with an overarching story - until it's finished.  And I'm sorry I recommended Dresden to a friend 15+ years ago based upon Butcher's early pace, since now there's no chance she'll be alive when the series ends.

I know how she feels, several of us feel the same way.  I don't know if Jim will go for a co-author to speed things up, also I think the series loses something when that is done.  Also as pointed out when he is pushing 80 or so, will Jim be able to do it at all?

No, best to edit down and get to the BAT.  For the most part, he adds a little tidbit here and there to hook us into waiting a couple of years or more to the next book.  Seems to me that some of those tidbits can be combined into one or two books instead of five.

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