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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months (blurb'ed & priced on Amazon)
« on: May 22, 2025, 02:30:34 PM »
Yeah, just found out through an interview Jim did with the NYT that the book is coming out in January. Still a while away, but not incredibly long. Damn, it's really been 5 years since Battle Ground...

Anyway, if someone wants to check out the interview, here's a link to the reddit thread I found it, where it gives a gift link so you can read it for free:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/1kqoib5/interview_with_jim_butcher_in_nyt/

I didn't know how close we were to never getting a book again... :(

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DF Spoilers / Re: How many times have you read the Dresden Files?
« on: April 10, 2025, 09:06:01 AM »
Four or five times. Probably going for number six when Twelve Months has a firm release date and said date comes closer.

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DF Spoilers / Re: James Butcher
« on: March 10, 2025, 01:39:02 PM »
I think it always has been the way that Jim writes one Dresden book and then one in his other series, and so on. It's only that due to all the personal stuff he was going through, he has slowed down in the last decade.

I think it's a bit soon to say that he'd want to turn the Dresden Files over to James. First off, I think James wants to do his own thing and secondly, Jim is 53 years old and has a lot of time going before he gets his wish and dies at his keyboard one day. :p Unless he goes all GRRM for the BAT, I think things will be fine.

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DF Spoilers / Re: James Butcher
« on: March 07, 2025, 01:50:06 PM »
I think if we get into this, we'd be squabbling over the definition of the term "pathetic". From my definition of what it means to be "a bit pathetic", that's okay and also desirable, because it makes the character relatable. Harry being almost OCD-like chivalrous to women (even if they don't want it), not being able to pay his rent on time as a permanent state of his life up until the point of the first three books and being looked down by "real cops" for what they perceive to be a con man is all what I would personally view as being "a little pathetic". That is off-set a LOT by his other personality traits (loyalty, bravery, sense of humor, deductive power), his powers as a wizard and being a genuine badass when it counts.

For me, Harry being not perfect and having a few little pathetic traits mark him as a human being I have a much easier time engaging with than some hero without flaws. Contrary to Grimsby, who is such a woobie most of the time that it takes me somewhat out of the story and I have problems sympathizing with his problems because of that.

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DF Spoilers / Re: James Butcher
« on: March 06, 2025, 06:32:21 AM »
Yeah, I read his two first novels and they are... fine? He went to the Jim Butcher school of making his protagonist a bit of a butt monkey, but in the case of Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby, he went a bit overboard and made him just pathetic in too many regards. While I definitely will get the third book of the series, coming out this month, so far the character hasn't convinced me yet that he is a worthy main protagonist, where Jim made Harry a bit pathetic, but also a lot of interesting in one book and has kept improving the character ever since.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months stuck?
« on: July 10, 2024, 10:18:01 AM »
Quote from: Mira on July 09, 2024, 05:51:04 PM
I have learned over the years no to hold my breath on such matters... ::)  On the other hand, we have been a most patient set of fans, happy for any crumb that is thrown our way...  Maybe just maybe he appreciates that, thus not making us wait for years for the next book in the series..

I think the GRRM fans have us beat in terms of patience. ^^

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months stuck?
« on: July 09, 2024, 02:23:48 PM »
Last update from Jim, from an interview he did 11 days ago with the Beyond the Cape podcast, he hopes to be done with Twelve Months by the time DragonCon comes around, to announce there the book is finished. We'll see, I guess. ^^

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DF Spoilers / Re: How Murphy could return to the Dresden Files
« on: March 02, 2024, 07:21:14 AM »
I do.

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DF Spoilers / Re: How Murphy could return to the Dresden Files
« on: March 01, 2024, 02:38:19 PM »
Quote from: Mira on February 29, 2024, 05:15:21 PM
But that's the point, her style etc, as a vanilla mortal, it wasn't just the Ghost Story hiccup, her arrogance, she thought she knew more than God.  She went through big changes after she was booted off the police force, this fan didn't care for them much.. That's just my opinion, I found myself rolling my eyes every time she was on page towards the end..

While I can see the point you are making, I personally think that from Cold Days onwards she evolved into a more understanding character than she had been before Harry "died", with a more open mindset towards his flaws but also his strengths. That did backfire on her with the swords, however, since she had been "contaminated" in her faith by hanging out with Odin's people and therefor she did waver in her convictions. Or that's how I interpreted it, I could be quite off here.

I agree that she recovered a bit too much on the eve of Battle Grounds (Hobbs from Fast and Furious 7 comes to mind when she just had to take off her cast to get better), but as a last hurrah as her mortal badass self, it worked for me.

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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Thoughst about The Olympian affaire (SPOILERS!!!!)
« on: February 29, 2024, 02:55:59 PM »
Let's just be happy that he didn't go the way of David Weber with his Safehold series... <brainbleach>

Anyway, albeit I really liked the book, demoting Gwen to a secondary character until the very end of the book annoyed me to no end. And Rowl didn't really do very much in this book, either, which also read a bit strange, given how active he was in the first book.




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DF Spoilers / Re: How Murphy could return to the Dresden Files
« on: February 29, 2024, 02:49:32 PM »
Quote from: Mira on April 09, 2021, 12:51:26 PM
But she won't be her anymore.  She won't be the vanilla mortal that all her fans love.  Death and time in Valhalla will change her, and perhaps not in the way you want.  That is why there are rules like, paraphrasing, "she won't return till all that knew and loved her have died."  Or something like that, but essentially that is a kindness to those who remain, love her memory as she was.  I am sure for the next couple of books at least her fans will be looking for clues whether or not it was her, returned.

You assume that her being a "vanilla mortal" is what "all her fans" loved about her. I didn't. I loved her personality, attitude, style of fighting, looks and what she meant to other characters. And, yes, that may be changed somewhat if she comes back as a Valkyrie. But Harry has changed a ton over the last 17 books and I still love him. And Karrin also went through big changes through that time (including the Ghost Story hiccup, which I didn't love that much). Let's just see what Jim comes up with and then deal with it when it happens. As we do for all the characters who had stuff happen to them during all those books.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Has Carlos sided with the merlin against Harry
« on: February 12, 2024, 10:14:02 AM »
I assume getting his spine bent into directions it shouldn't go by Molly in an act of treachery (which it has to be from his viewpoint, despite us knowing that Molly had no control over her actions) just may have colored Carlos's viewpoint.

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DF Spoilers / Re: WOJ search for Uriel/Odin deal for Murphy.
« on: January 24, 2024, 08:55:13 PM »
Quote from: Mira on January 24, 2024, 08:33:46 PM
A good author always gives himself wiggle room because characters often have a way of taking on a life of their own.  If an author is too wedded to his timeline he often ends up ruining the series.

Right. But even in the case you posit, Jim clearly decided to bring Murphy back at some point, otherwise there's no point in killing her off to leave a huge "however!" at the end. It basically undermines the drama of the whole plot point just to leave a theoretical "option" Jim would then have decide to use in the future.

To me, that means the point of killing off Murphy at that particular point of the story (which was a bit too soon after she got into a serious relationship with Harry, IMHO) and then adding a clear sign that she'll be back at some point in the future was to transition her into a new role in the group, rather than to just get her out of the story "because Harry must always suffer".

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DF Spoilers / Re: WOJ search for Uriel/Odin deal for Murphy.
« on: January 24, 2024, 07:24:26 PM »
Quote from: Mira on January 24, 2024, 01:32:45 PM
Or he is merely giving himself an option..

Given that he had the entire arc of his Dresden books planned out since the first one got published, I doubt that.

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DF Spoilers / Re: WOJ search for Uriel/Odin deal for Murphy.
« on: January 24, 2024, 12:41:31 PM »
Come on guys, this "she can't come back as long as mortals remember her" is a thing Jim made up on the spot to avoid having to bring her back immediately (because he clearly was planning to write out his own personal pain of the last years in the next book and you can't have Harry happy for that). And it's in the series of books where Jim himself has said that Harry will have broken all the laws of magic by the end of the series. If Jim wanted Murphy out of the series permanently, he wouldn't have built in this backdoor.

Originally I was going to formulate my question more along the lines of "Harry is stated to break all the rules of magic during the runtime of the series, what is preventing him from also breaking this new, just made-up, rule?", but then I realized that I was denying Murphy her agency with this line of questioning. I'm pretty happy with the answer I got from Jim.

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