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CoolCly posted...

I don't know why you are so personally upset about people telling you when it gets good though. It's just objectively true that the first two books aren't as good as the later ones, even though they do have the tone of the series.

It's not that people tell me when it gets good. It's their fanatical level of insistence. Y'all are a bunch of zealots. And between not wanting to miss out on something I might appreciate, and knowing that I need to have enough knowledge on a series to be able to compare my work against it, I couldn't ignore it completely.

So I fully expected that there was going to be this massive improvement. I expected the worldbuilding and the style to blossom from that point and for a newer author to transcend into writing something...well, transcendent. That was the level of fervor I got from everyone who insistently decries how good this series is.

Instead, I got something that was maybe average, but flawed.

CoolCly posted...

I will say it doesn't sound like you really get Harry. It doesn't tell you when Harry is upset. It doesn't need to. You can interpret everything Harry is feeling by the way he talks to or about someone, or the actions he takes. To say he doesn't feel anything is a very bizarre take.

Oh, I think I get him just fine. Where I disagree is that I don't believe he shows his emotion at all. He tells it to you, in an extremely clinical fashion. Because that's expedient. But if he were to show it to me, it might actually slow him down and hinder the pace of the story, and Butcher writes like there's a bomb on the bus he can't risk let blow up.
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