The books sound interesting, and Ive added to my reading list but I do feel Storm Front is a bit of an unfortunate name
Yeah… it’s taken on a certain meaning since it was published. I’ll warn you that the first 2.5 books are the weakest of the set, not bad; just immature writing. (The reasons make sense if you know the story behind them being written).
Jim Butcher has stated that Dead Beat was written as a reintroduction for new readers to coincide with the debut of the TV series. That way new people could try a book in the series that was more representative of his writing. It is still one of my current favorite series though.
Why so? I'm not up on pop culture
This is what I really came to enjoy about the books - that he is always punching above his weight limit, and it shows. Perserverance through pure will and being smart about things (within reason lol).
That and the perfect balance between the seriousness and smart-assery
I named my first born son Dresden because of these books. No lie. I still get a lot of "oh so are you German?" questions though. Philistines
You could have just named him "Harry" instead. Or even "Harry Blackstone Copperfield" if you wanted to be more on the nose about it.
While Harry would have been apt based on my own hair levels, I just preferred the sound of Dresden. I have a fairly common name and it was not so much fun being "First name last initial" growing up so I also wanted to give him a decent semi unique name that wouldn't also fall in the realms of Tradegeigh or Traeiystiean shit
Also my wife started whispering it in her sleep the night I suggested it so that pretty much tied it.
Wait, who is Jim?
I've watched the series and read like three or four of the books (I hear they get much better later on, but by book three or four, it's just... kinda repetitive...), and, who is Jim?
I'm having the surreal feeling I would expect if I were reading something about Star Wars and seeing someone ask "Wait, who is George?"
Sure, it was kind if a "d'oh" moment, but, honestly, if I'm assuming you're talking about some character in the lore, I could still see myself asking "Who is George?" when Star Wars is discussed.
