For real for real. Im forever bitter that the release of HP overshadowed His Dark Materials since HDM subverted the genre before YA even got established. Though I suppose “A coming of age story thats meant to be Narnia but militantly atheist; containing child death, concentration camps, feminist subtext that extends beyond ‘girl power’ and talking polar bears brutally murdering eachother for sport” is a hard sell to a general audience.
Infinite admiration for the love Dresden Files people give to the Dresden Files. Do you have a recommendation for someone who may be interested but doesn’t know where to start?
Just a warning that the Dresden Files writing (not the story, just like the pure writing) is kind of cheesy and subpar, especially in the beginning, but IMHO the author gets better as he goes on.
For Dresden just start with book one Storm Front. It keeps escalating in satisfying ways and I can’t really recommend starting anywhere but the beginning. Also the central romance plot pays off very well in a way that reminds a bit of Mulder and Scully in X files.
For real so much slop is just infinitely better. Dresden files is pulp slop but actually good. The Sanderson-verse is also way better slop.
Why can’t we get live action cowboy wizard Harry Dresden and some wild anime take on the Cosmere dammit.
For real for real. Im forever bitter that the release of HP overshadowed His Dark Materials since HDM subverted the genre before YA even got established. Though I suppose “A coming of age story thats meant to be Narnia but militantly atheist; containing child death, concentration camps, feminist subtext that extends beyond ‘girl power’ and talking polar bears brutally murdering eachother for sport” is a hard sell to a general audience.
Infinite admiration for the love Dresden Files people give to the Dresden Files. Do you have a recommendation for someone who may be interested but doesn’t know where to start?
As a member of the general audience, I am interested in the polar bear fights
Just a warning that the Dresden Files writing (not the story, just like the pure writing) is kind of cheesy and subpar, especially in the beginning, but IMHO the author gets better as he goes on.
It keeps the boomer lib energy throughout though
For Dresden just start with book one Storm Front. It keeps escalating in satisfying ways and I can’t really recommend starting anywhere but the beginning. Also the central romance plot pays off very well in a way that reminds a bit of Mulder and Scully in X files.
Dresden Files release order is chronological except for some of the short stories. Book 1 is the unfortunately named Storm Front.
I never got into Dresden files, but I enjoyed that authors take on roman Pokemons vs Zerg. Those were cool books.
You might like Rivers of London for an urban fantasy crime series set in the UK. It’s less horny, but more cop.
Twenty Palaces was pretty good as well, more of a grim tone than Dresden, though it sadly only got three or four books.
Edit: Oh, neat, the author was able to crowdfund doing another pair of books.
Wonderful I will have to check those out.
There was a brief live action Dresden files on the Sci Fi channel iirc
Neat. I bet it was terrible, I may just look it up.
Would make a great adaptation if it got the right treatment now and there’s like 18 books so it could have legs.