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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Was listening to Dead Beat again the other day. It is pointed out there are six necromancers in town, but... I only counted five, including Mavra. Who's the sixth? I feel like I am missing something incredibly obvious. Mavra, Corpsetaker, Cowl, Fedora guy, Kumori, Liver Spots. Comedy option, Dresden himself.
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Was listening to Dead Beat again the other day. It is pointed out there are six necromancers in town, but... I only counted five, including Mavra. Who's the sixth? I feel like I am missing something incredibly obvious. Mortimer Lindquist?
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Mavra, Corpsetaker, Cowl, Fedora guy, Kumori, Liver Spots. I thought of Liver Spots, but does he ever actually do any necromancy? He's a capable caster, but it seems like Grevane is doing the work. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I was just wondering if it might have something to do with whoever ran Dresden off the road a few books down the line. And, as always, Dead Beat has me playing the old game of, "Who are Cowl and Kumori anyways?"  Dr. MonkeyThunder posted:Mortimer Lindquist? Mort's an ectomancer, and says, explicitly, that ghosts avoid those necro dudes. He wouldn't have shown up on the ghost radar.
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Feb 2, 2017 05:57
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is it true that his first wife wrote the sex scenes for him? Yes, if you read between the lines you can see some unfulfilled bedroom fantasies going on
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BabyFur Denny posted:Yes, if you read between the lines you can see some unfulfilled bedroom fantasies going on I respect myself too much to read the lines but I can understand this aspect of jim butcher's marriage
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Feb 2, 2017 08:56
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Just finished The Hanging Tree. I liked the book, but the ending was unsatisfying. I'd gotten all excited about watching the Nightingale and the Faceless Man go at it, only to have it end in yet another fizzle because Peter Grant is a still a terribly lovely cop. It might go over better on a reread, though, when I know not to get my hopes up.
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Feb 2, 2017 10:54
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:And, as always, Dead Beat has me playing the old game of, "Who are Cowl and Kumori anyways?" Cowl is obviously Ebenezer's superpowered evil alter-ego corrupted (unbeknownst to him) by the Blackstaff And Kumori is Emo Goth Yoshimo who's secretly banging Dresden-grampy Spoiler alert!
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Felix castor series: pretty OK. Better than sandman slim, not quite as engaging as Daniel Faust.
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Feb 4, 2017 22:39
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I just finished The Hanging Tree...what a letdown. The whole book felt like a mess of way too many things going on-the murder of a socialite involving the river gods, American intervention, Leslie May popping up, new characters, and the philosopher's stone. The last book at least had a narrative through-line: magical shenanigans going on in the contry which turned out to be faries. This feels like it's setting up for something bigger. The Iron Man 2 of the series, so to speak.
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Feb 19, 2017 21:55
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Re, the hanging tree: My problem is the "tv violence" issue. Leslie May is head butted, knocked over, and generally gets a good beating, and then gets pepper sprayed, and there are no consequences. She can see just fine, can fight just fine, and can run away just fine, as if none of it happened. The head butt alone would scramble most folks for a good bit, and the pepper spray to the face makes the get away not just unlikely, but virtually impossible. Just like TV fights.
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Feb 19, 2017 22:19
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Yeah, I agree. It's just getting tiresome to see the Faceless Man and Lesley narrowly escape over and over again. It's making both Grant and Nightingale look ridiculously incompetent. That might be intentional for Grant, but Nightingale shouldn't be so useless. The obvious plot armor on all the interesting characters is annoying. If you absolutely refuse to kill off characters, stop sending them into traps they absolutely shouldn't be able to walk out of. When Nightingale sets a trap, the bad guys walk into it and it all goes to plan, it's rather baffling when the bad guys just walk away and nothing of any consequence happens. I also really struggled to tell all the new characters apart for the first half of the book, because the investigation into the dead girl seemed to introduce a whole bunch of similar characters at once. Maybe that's just me though. It had been a while since I read the last book, and I hadn't read all the comics he was constantly referencing. Considering how delayed the book was, I had hoped for something better.
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Feb 19, 2017 22:32
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loving hell, I was hoping this would be the one where at least Leslie would be captured. And that reveal at the end that she was touched by Punch was fustraring because I feel a smarter writer would've lead into it better. Sure, her face was scarred and she can do magic but why not have her also exhude chaos around her like Black Cat in Spider-Man does bad luck? I mean, at least that would explain how she's able to slip away so often and would be clever.
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Feb 19, 2017 23:00
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Agreed with all of the above. I felt this book needed a stronger "win" than we got either getting L in some way, putting a severe hurt on FM and I didn't feel there was any need for more characters than we already have sitting around twiddling thumbs
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Feb 20, 2017 12:19
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Any word on an ETA for a Chequy Files sequel? I have three main series which I rotate between equally-Chequy for X-Men antics, Daniel Faust for pulp, and Rivers of London for dry British procedurals.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:43
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Benny the Snake posted:Any word on an ETA for a Chequy Files sequel? I have three main series which I rotate between equally-Chequy for X-Men antics, Daniel Faust for pulp, and Rivers of London for dry British procedurals. Not that I know of, but I'm sure one is coming. Stiletto really set up the world for more books. It wasn't nearly as self-contained as The Rook.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:47
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The guy is a fairly slow writer by UF standards so I'd expect that in 2018.
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Feb 20, 2017 23:56
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anilEhilated posted:The guy is a fairly slow writer by UF standards so I'd expect that in 2018. Rook came out in, what 2012? Then Stiletto was out last year. So it would be 2020 at least.
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Speaking of that. Just finished listening to Stiletto. I looooved The Rook but didn't enjoy Stiletto as much. Probably because after I finished the first book, I was ready to hear about Myfanwy kick rear end and really didn't care about Odette's situation.  It was still good but not as amazing as it could of been. I want more everyday Chequy manifestation stories too.
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Feb 21, 2017 03:26
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Daniel O'Malley needs a ghostwriter, methinks.
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Xtanstic posted:Speaking of that. Just finished listening to Stiletto. I looooved The Rook but didn't enjoy Stiletto as much. Probably because after I finished the first book, I was ready to hear about Myfanwy kick rear end and really didn't care about Odette's situation.
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anilEhilated posted:The one part I was really missing in there were Myfanwy's papers. I know a lot of people disliked them as clumsy exposition, but the snarky takes on the magical establishment were easily my favorite part of the book. Normally I HATE lazy infodumps, but I really liked the Myfanwy's papers, too. It wasn't really for post-amnesia Myfanwy's benefit. They were for the lonesome, solitary pre-amnesia Myfanwy. They were snarky and sweet and funny and really sad.
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Whatever happened to that Rook TV show? Did having Stephanie Meyer on as the producer kill it?
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Dienes posted:Normally I HATE lazy infodumps, but I really liked the Myfanwy's papers, too. It wasn't really for post-amnesia Myfanwy's benefit. They were for the lonesome, solitary pre-amnesia Myfanwy. They were snarky and sweet and funny and really sad. Oh yeah they were such a great combination of snark, humor and depressing inevitability 
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Whatever happened to that Rook TV show? Did having Stephanie Meyer on as the producer kill it? These things go slow.
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Feb 22, 2017 10:21
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Feb 22, 2017 20:30
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Benny the Snake posted:How much influence do producers have on TV shows? I wouldn't worry too much about Twilight cooties. It's a coproduction with Lionsgate. Eva Longoria of Desperate Housewives fame produced John Wick and the directors never met her.
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Feb 22, 2017 20:47
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Producers in TV = Directors in Movies, in terms of where the power lies, generally. TV has a constant rotation of directors coming in for an episode at a time, but Producers are generally there for the long haul and steering the ship.
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Klungar posted:Producers in TV = Directors in Movies, in terms of where the power lies, generally. TV has a constant rotation of directors coming in for an episode at a time, but Producers are generally there for the long haul and steering the ship. this isn't strictly true. Showrunners are often executive producers but there's usually a lot of exec producers in addition to the showrunners. Something like Game of Thrones has like four exec producers in addition to Weiss and Benioff. GRRM is one and we know he has very little to do with the actual mechanics of the show other than writing the occasional episode and being the IP creator. I imagine Meyer and O'Malley will both be exec producers in addition to some people from Lionsgate/Hula and then the person who is showrunning.
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Sure, but D&B, as producers, have more control of the show than that episode's director, even if a good director can shine through in their individual episodes.
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Klungar posted:Sure, but D&B, as producers, have more control of the show than that episode's director, even if a good director can shine through in their individual episodes. Yes. I'm just saying that Stephanie Meyer being a producer isn't necessarily cause for concern because there's no indication that she's going to have a showrunner role.
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The story broke in February of 2015, with another blurb in November of the same year and then nothing else, so I think its pretty safe to assume it's been quietly buried. I mean, we're getting the American Gods miniseries sometime in the next year, finally, so there is that to look forward to.
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Movie producers (and increasingly television producers) buy up the rights to books all the time. I mean that literally - it is constantly happening. Hell, if you're an established writer and have a vaguely good idea about a book you plan to write soon(ish), you can sometimes sell the movie rights before getting a publisher to bite. All that is to say that just because a studio has picked up the rights to a series, and even started doing some very preliminary work, has absolutely zero bearing on whether or when a movie or show will get made based on that series.
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Paragon8 posted:Yes. I'm just saying that Stephanie Meyer being a producer isn't necessarily cause for concern because there's no indication that she's going to have a showrunner role. Yeah, I was just trying to point out that you can't necessarily compare the role/power of a Producer on a movie to that of a Producer on a TV show.
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Stephenie Meyer in a project affiliated with the rook still gives me the shivers. At worst, we could see a love triangle between Myfanny, Grantchester, and the Gestalt siblings 
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Dresden Files Card game arrived at my door today! Can't wait to play it.. Anyone else get their copy?
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Benny the Snake posted:Stephenie Meyer in a project affiliated with the rook still gives me the shivers. At worst, we could see a love triangle between Myfanny, Grantchester, and the Gestalt siblings Sounds more like a love rectangle.
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Inspector 34 posted:Sounds more like a love rectangle. A love hexagon
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Exmond posted:Dresden Files Card game arrived at my door today! Can't wait to play it.. Still waiting on mine, and I gotta leave town for the next couple weeks starting tomorrow, so it'll be mid-March before I see mine, assuming it's been shipped.
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Benny the Snake posted:Any word on an ETA for a Chequy Files sequel? I have three main series which I rotate between equally-Chequy for X-Men antics, Daniel Faust for pulp, and Rivers of London for dry British procedurals. Same plus the Laundry Files for Lovecraftian shenanigans.
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Probably too pricey for folks here, but I figured I'd share it anyhow.quote:There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little more than give a frisson to travelling and boost tourism. But now there’s a rash of sightings on the Metropolitan Line and these ghosts are frightening, aggressive and seem to be looking for something.
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