Posts Tagged ‘Dresden Files’

I finished Backup by Jim Butcher

Feb 20th, 09 / 0 Comments

BackupI have been putting off reading this short story for quite a while and for no real reason to speak of. What a damn mistake. Backup centers around Thomas Raithe, Harry Dresden’s older brother and vampire of The White Court. This book is short, like 60 pages or so, so I am not going to tell you a damn thing about it. Suffice it to say that this is the first story in the Dresden Files universe that is not being told from the view point of Harry Dresden. This is a great little story that expands upon the known Dresden-verse in a fairly prominent way. And as is the case with all of the previous short stories written outside of the Dresden Files, there is a really good chance that the new plot line will be introduced again within the new novel.

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Long novels are hard for me…

Feb 13th, 09 / 0 Comments

So I have come to again reaffirm that I have a really hard time making my way through a novel that breaks the 1000 page mark. Peter F. Hamilton’s The Reality Dysfunction (The Night’s Dawn) is an amazing read so far, but I have found that I am moving through it at a snail’s pace. The same thing happened when I read Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon.

Does any one else out there have this problem? Am I alone in this strange mental barrier?

Anyway, I am still plugging away at it and hope to be finished before the new Dresden Files book, Turn Coat hits in April, which gives me almost a two months to complete it from now. I’m only about 100 pages into it so far btw, well like 256 on my E Reader which tends to bloat a book by about half depending upon font size.

Damn I have got to read Butcher’s Backup before I can even think about reading Turn Coat, so I really have less than a month. Shit!

Well back to the grind…

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