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Mr. Bad Guy posted:On e-reader chat, I got my hands on a kindle paper white on display at like an Office Depot of all places and it is seriously the slickest thing ever. A touch screen on an e-reader? A built-in backlight that looks amazing? I would drop :200+bux: on it no question. Oh that's where the subliminal messaging shows, you probably didn't even notice stopping buying fifteen Amazon gift cards a month when that part broke. Also it not being Tuesday yet is a tragedy.
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It's on my kindle now so later thread (in the UK btw), time to read me some wizard e: argh that was good but now I have to wait again argh Illuyankas fucked around with this message at 04:18 on May 27, 2014 |
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May 27, 2014 00:34
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Holy poo poo I did not see half of the poo poo at the end happening. e: I like Grey e2: I wonder what the consequences are for the airliner stunt beyond this book e3: Anyone know what the knife was? I'm totally blanking on it. Illuyankas fucked around with this message at 04:33 on May 27, 2014 |
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May 27, 2014 04:19
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I was thinking about Murphy becoming a valkyrie after a heroic sacrifice or something and being sent on a prolonged mission to assist Harry as a favour from Odin to completely bypass the whole mortal thing without making her a Knight or a Denarian or a vampire or whatever, but that might be too close to what happened to Susan.
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May 28, 2014 12:59
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Not to mention Butters has a werewolf girlfriend and no kids to look after so why wouldn't Andi go off on missions with him? If she's going to get kidnapped anyway it might as well be helping Butters out. (by which I mean I really really hope she starts actually doing stuff that isn't being in danger)
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May 28, 2014 16:12
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Wade Wilson posted:Yeah, but who is going to take that on? Marcone is very likely going to rework the Vault so it will no longer be a good Way point to that spot, at the very least, since it was intentionally set up that way to lure Nicodemus there. Nicodemus just had his poo poo royally kicked in per the exposition in the Mab/Marcone/Dresden/Molly meeting and lost a hell of a lot of influence in the Community. Nobody will work with him to pull what is essentially the same heist again. If you don't think there's going to be a showdown with all thirty Denarians manifest and lined up on one side or another (or both) for the end I don't know what to tell you.
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May 28, 2014 17:20
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Fellwenner posted:I hope that future books don't have as many nerd references as this book contained. It was saturated with them, and while it is sort of who Harry is, it's just getting to be a bit much. I found the idea of someone else in the series other than Dresden having watched The Black Hole far more immersion-ruining. I didn't think there were that many references personally but then again I kept reading the Iron Druid books after the loving lolcats part so maybe I have a higher tolerance for nerd.
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May 28, 2014 22:55
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Oh, and while Lasciel mentioned it, I'd say with what we know now about his power set that it was Anduriel who whispered into Harry's ear.
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May 28, 2014 23:31
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Outsiders have DR/Good.Xtanstic posted:Makes sense but how the hell did he do that while on church grounds? I figure Anduriel broke the rules to get the message across just that once, like breaking a window to eavesdrop instead of just listening to people talking outside (in this instance the window is the immaterial boundary of a church faith's threshold).
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May 29, 2014 02:42
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Arcsech posted:I can't imagine Michael being too pleased about that. "Look, the line's 'But of that day and hour knoweth no man', right? Says nothing about wizards."
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May 29, 2014 03:53
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AllTerrineVehicle posted:"Besides, I don't KNOW. It's 50/50 on whether this works or just explodes." *spell half works, dead body shows up in the circle, Harry has to spend three days running away from the Denarians with the flopping corpse of the Son of God so he can come back to life again before he's eaten, Weekend at Jesus's*
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May 29, 2014 04:02
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^ Not onscreen he hasn't, not yet - McCoy didn't know as of Turn Coat and they don't discuss it after thatBunnita posted:I'm at a signing and I got to ask how old Murphy is. Murphy is five years older than Dresden and is 42. Yeah I think I read the answer here as 'he knows but isn't very happy about it' a while back. I imagine we'll see him, Luccio, Ramirez and the rest of the White Council next book considering the title, and boy oh boy do I want to see those reactions! Illuyankas fucked around with this message at 04:20 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 04:18
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Masonity posted:Peace Talks obviously refers to Harry trying to defuse the sibling rivalry between them. It's a domestic book. Between the White Council and the Fomor, between Winter and Summer, between the Dresden girls, between Molly and her family, just for starters. There could be a lot of discussion going on, and hey, we might see Ivy again too. Incidentally which audiobook has James Marsters go 'holy poo poo' while reading a scene out?
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May 30, 2014 14:18
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Fried Chicken posted:Changes Thanks! I got the series on audiobook to listen to at work (literally the day before I got laid off, hooray) and I'm only at Summer Knight and it's really enjoyable so far, so that's cool.
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May 30, 2014 15:28
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ConfusedUs posted:Dresden Files Patterns I wonder if it'll turn out that there'll be a new pattern of Outsiders every x books now, starting at Cold Days, or if the old patterns are falling apart.
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May 30, 2014 20:28
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Fried Chicken posted:I'm more curious how he got food out there, given that he can't open a way from there and the lake was iced over so a boat couldn't get out to him I'm assuming canned stuff and the occasional deer from his complaints about food while recruiting Valmont, though I think the burgers he gets for himself, Murphy and Jordan on the way back from Michael's is the first Burger King he's had in two years, what with being dead and then stuck on an island. Poor guy. (unless I missed something in Cold Days)
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May 31, 2014 19:34
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The scene where Hannah Ascher reveals her Lasciel form is a lot more entertaining to me if you assume that Harry's Denarian form if he'd accepted the coin fully would have looked exactly the same. Posing, nudity and strategically placed pink smoke tendrils included
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Jun 3, 2014 14:08
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Dr. MonkeyThunder posted:Do you think Dresden will ever figure out it's much better to have Marcone owe or even like him, than keeping up near constant antagonism? Marcone personally murders people, let alone all the deaths and suffering his operations cause in Chicago. Just cause he's the lesser evil (for now) doesn't mean he's not scum. Also heavy spoilers possibly regarding book 17: I've heard elsewhere that it'll be called Mirror Mirror, and the plot will be an alternate universe Harry summoning our dimension's over to kill and fake his own death, and the point of divergence between the two is at Bianca's party and Alternate Harry left without Susan and not starting the war and I have no idea where this came from! Is it speculation dressed as spoilers or did Butcher do an interview I missed?
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Jun 5, 2014 17:23
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I'm rereading/listening to Dead Beat now, that little video clip gave Butters' lines to Harry! My immersion! Also what kind of terrible nerd is Butters, to not know what a necromancer is!? (man I hate the Shiela scenes on revisiting them, clearly the best way to win over your host is get them banned from a book stor- and as I write this the notion that splitting Harry up from whatever familiar locales as possible would help Laschiel manipulate Harry better just now hits me, ugh)
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Jun 6, 2014 02:38
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I was trying to remember who I pictured in my head for Mac after a friend asked a question about him (the answer was 'he's out' ) and it finally struck me, Mac is Mills Lane.
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Jun 8, 2014 03:32
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jivjov posted:My mental casting for Mac has lately been a super-stoic Maximiliano Hernández Fried Chicken posted:I go with Jonathan Banks for Mac I'll allow it
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Jun 8, 2014 03:59
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Is that a soulpatch-a-like goatee? Ewwwwwwwwwwww
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Jun 9, 2014 03:09
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Wow, I must have been consistantly misreading that part then cause I'd always thought that Sarissa was the one with the dementia being staved off by Mab in exchange for her service.
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Jun 14, 2014 03:26
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Listening to the audiobook of White Night for the first time and I'm very glad he dropped all the 'Strike you funny' and 'Think you mild spoiler etc' and 'Ask you questions on the way' stuff cause it really stuck out.
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Jun 15, 2014 21:57
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Apparently the first Summer one retired while Winter's is still the original. Also I love Marster's Sanya voice.
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WarLocke posted:So I finally got around to trying that Iron Druid series that gets brought up in here every once in a while, and it... wasn't that bad? The dialogue was definitely a bit off, almost stilted, in this kind of 'yeah I'm a cool badass but I'm downplaying it' manner but I'm hoping it's similar to Butcher's first couple of books and just a kind of rocky start. Just don't buy more in the series until you finish each one. Also I hope you have a overdeveloped tolerance for lolcat speech. e: I found the first wordcount post by Captain Capacitor with some more over the next couple pages in the last thread cause I wanted to see if he'd measured how many times 'snarl' appeared, which it has 551 times, more than either Charity or Red Court, and I can believe it (I also saw I hadn't once mentioned Iron Druid without complaining about the lolcat scene, jesus) e2: V hahaha exactly Illuyankas fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Jun 19, 2014 |
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Jun 19, 2014 00:47
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You're right, of course - the obnoxiousness of Atticus aside, which book if any did Oberon's gimmick lose its lustre for you guys, anyway?
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Jun 19, 2014 01:09
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Religious nonfiction.
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Jun 21, 2014 19:22
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Dienes posted:My sentiments exactly. Every time Oberon says something I catch myself wincing. Whoever told the author their banter was funny should be shot. That was my thought too, but a goon earlier had another intriguing idea I like more, that it was King Arthur.
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Jun 23, 2014 00:32
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platero posted:I like the idea that it is both of your guesses. I don't know if you intended it but the idea of Arthur and Merlin being one figure split into two by myth and legend led me to imagine Harry being a descendant of this King Merlin and therefore getting to wield a Sword - given some personality changes or dire circumstances, aka the thrillogy at the end which might be a bit too crazy.
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Jun 26, 2014 02:12
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Whoever voices the Even Hand audiobook does a terrible Gard.
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Jun 27, 2014 16:44
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gninjagnome posted:I like the Alex Versus books, but I almost put it down when he first calls the evil mage group Dark Mages. Like, seriously, you couldn't come up with anything better? Black Mages is copyrighted.
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Jun 29, 2014 03:41
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DangerDummy! posted:A soul gaze comes from prolonged eye contact, if memory serves. In fact, I remember him stating specifically in Skin Game that he broke off eye contact with someone scary because it would've been a real inopportune time for a soul gaze. Can't remember who, though. Man, I just realised that Harry and Murphy still haven't had a soulgaze yet and unless it's a short story we aren't seeing it (onscreen? onpage? onpage) in a book unless they have some really, really awkward encounters between Skin Game and Peace Talks. Also, potential danger zone: Harry accidentally soulgazes Maggie and that's how she finds out about Susan.
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Ornamented Death posted:Considering the reaction of nearly everyone else Harry's shared a soulgaze with, it's more likely Maggie would be traumatized by whatever it is people have been seeing since day one. Harry hadn't killed Susan back then, pretty sure it'll continue to be a horrible life-altering trauma which tend to show up in soulgazes. MrGreenShirt posted:What? I could've sworn they did and he saw her as some shining paragon holding a flaming sword of righteousness or something. Or am I thinking of some scene from Changes? That was what she looked like through his Sight, though with tarnished armour after Blood Rites. Illuyankas fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Jul 2, 2014 |
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Yeah, Harry thinks about her when walking to meet Mavra in Dead Beat and notes her statue is missing as he does, long before going to the island himself.
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Jul 28, 2014 13:08
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Wade Wilson posted:There's an interesting idea: What if Mavra turned the Eebs into Black Court vamps? Would that even work? Merge the two courts together somehow, each gaining the strengths of one to cover the weaknesses of the other - Black loses the Stoker weaknesses, Red gains the conversion speed and strength - to form a new court. We could call it... the Oh god, I am become fanfiction
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Loving Life Partner posted:Just finished Skin Game, thoughts dump coming (yeah I'm late, being poor and relying on the library sucks) The deal with this was that whatever question followed the use of the word wizard was answered with the first word said by the other, with the rest of the sentence as cover. Questions like Grey asking Harry if he wanted whatshisface (Harvey?) retrieved alive, or if he wants things to devolve into end game yet, etc. The best example is when Grey ended a sentence with the word wizard after walking in at the end covered in blood, Harry asks if he killed Anna, he answered "No particular reason not to" and only the No mattered, letting Harry know he didn't kill her. Searching for that particular word is easier on a kindle, to be fair, haha.
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Really hope Even Hand makes into the next short story anthology. Also besides the murdering and drugrunning he runs a brothel, and Harry's Harry.
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