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Dresdenfiling
Mar. 4th, 2013 07:05 amI just finished Storm Front, the first installment in the Dresden Files, and will be starting on the second. I actually started the series over a decade ago, and while I enjoyed it (I think), I didn't love it enough to continue. Or maybe I was put off by what appeared to figure heavily into the plot of the second book; with apologies to Remus, Oz, Tyler, and others, I was not overly fond of werewolf stories at the time.
I like werewolves fine now. And I like the world-building and the magic, so far. And I like Harry Dresden himself well enough, raging white-knight complex and all. I have a completely unsubstantiated theory that, just as Anita Blake helped to solidify the template for tough, sardonic urban fantasy heroines who go head to head with things that go bump in the night, Mr. Dresden - with his snark and his lone-wolf attitude and his Dark Past and his long coat - did something similar for the menfolk of the genre, even if a lot of the tropes were pre-existing on their own. People can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, of course.
And my answer to "who would win in a fight between him and Isaac Vainio?"* (based entirely on the first books in their respective series) is, "Well, they seem like they'd mostly be on the same side, so they're probably fighting about something dumb. In which case Lena would knock both of their heads together."
*Was I the only one thinking this?
I like werewolves fine now. And I like the world-building and the magic, so far. And I like Harry Dresden himself well enough, raging white-knight complex and all. I have a completely unsubstantiated theory that, just as Anita Blake helped to solidify the template for tough, sardonic urban fantasy heroines who go head to head with things that go bump in the night, Mr. Dresden - with his snark and his lone-wolf attitude and his Dark Past and his long coat - did something similar for the menfolk of the genre, even if a lot of the tropes were pre-existing on their own. People can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, of course.
And my answer to "who would win in a fight between him and Isaac Vainio?"* (based entirely on the first books in their respective series) is, "Well, they seem like they'd mostly be on the same side, so they're probably fighting about something dumb. In which case Lena would knock both of their heads together."
*Was I the only one thinking this?
