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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Give Dresden a chance man.

I feel like you kind of misinterpreted my post there.

1) I was aware of the books long before the show existed. Pretty much everything I ever heard about them led me to believe I'd straight up hate them. Almost nothing I heard about them ever led me to question that impression.

2) I specifically watched the show because TV is more accessible than books, so it potentially could have interested me in the setting/franchise in spite of my prior apathy, and thus lead me to invest time in the books after all. It did not.

3) Pretty much everything I've ever heard about the books since has continued to lead me to believe I'd straight up hate them. The fact that the series is up to 17 books really doesn't help its case either, because now it's the victim of its own bloat. Almost every time I see some plot point or story element mentioned online it tends to make me roll my eyes a bit, so it's pretty much a given at this point that it's never winning me over, period.

4) My comment about the "erotic" side of urban fiction wasn't specifically about Dresden, it was pointing out a problem that crops up way too much in that particular genre as a whole (which is part of why I tend to avoid it on general principles). My problems with Dresden are different, though - and are mostly specific to the books themselves. I really only brought it up specifically because Butcher mentioned early on that he liked the Anita Blake books and they were an inspiration for him to start writing Dresden, which is an admission he probably should have been ashamed to make because those books are terrible.
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