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I 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?
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That's good. Not to get all spoilery, but some of the werewolves in that book will still be around 13 books later.
I think that when a particular author is singled out in this manner, it's ... because the author in question has managed to combine them and use them in an interesting way that strikes a particular chord with readers and other writers.
I think to a certain extent it is how the particular author struck a chord, but I believe it is also a matter of how a given genre progressed to a sort of critical mass. Lots of people think of Tolkien or Stoker as having invented the genres they are associated with not because of how those authors have struck a chord with them, but simply because those authors were the first authors they were exposed to from those genres. I've seen people who's first exposure to vampires was Twilight dismiss older vampire stories as either more recent knock offs or older inferior versions. People's knowledge of and perspective on genres vary.
I think that you'll like him a lot.
Thanks. I'll go add him to my wish list at the Science Fiction Book Club. I have at least noticed they do have an edition of that book for sale over there. ;)
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