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They're great fun, but not great literature. Big explosions, chases, larger-than-life characters with interesting quirks but little nuance (although he gets bet

They're great fun, but not great literature. Big explosions, chases, larger-than-life characters with interesting quirks but little nuance (although he gets better), edge-of-your-seat world-in-peril type stuff. I know plenty of people who love them, including myself. They suffer fairly badly from Lensman Arms Race, so by about two-thirds of the way through the series Dresden and his friends are now so ridiculously powerful that you can tell Butcher's having a hard time coming up with decent a threats for them to vanquish in the each book. Basically: above average pulp urban fantasy. Edit: There's a TV series, fairly loosely based on the first few books. I rather liked it. I know plenty of people who didn't.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Exactly. And totally Lensman Arms Race. Although it takes on an interesting tone around Changes. Not enough to stop it from being a problem, but enough to keep things interesting until there's an inevitable solution (unless there isn't). As for the TV series, I liked it, but I wish they'd kept some of the characters from the books: They significantly altered Bob's personality (although that's understandable), and totally cut Thomas, as well as Michael and the rest of the Carpenters. I also wish we'd been able to see Nick and The Nickelheads (I'm deliberately speaking in references, so as not to spoil), although the fact that we didn't is understandable. But seriously, what happened to Thomas? As of Backup, I'd almost say he was my favorite character.