Two questions regarding authors
1)Every so often when it gets slow and I run out of sites that are probably okay to be looking at on desk, I remember that I keep meaning to start reading the Dresden Files. For some reason this branch can't keep Storm Front in. Whenever I check, there's like six holds on it. Meanwhile the second, fourth, and eighth books in the series are right there on the shelf ten yards away. Does it matter terribly much in which order I read them?

2) I just reread Dave Duncan's Great Game trilogy after giving up on it as a teenager. It was a decent read, but also contained a whole lot of OH JOHN RINGO NO-style treatment of women and minorities. I'm looking at an old Library Journal that has a review of a novel of his about alchemists in an alternate Renaissance Venice. They say it's pretty good and I have a secret weakness for fantasy Venice. On the other hand, I'll pass if it's full of the same creepy "Hooray white people! British colonial-style oppression of native peoples is awesome!" and "Rape bad! But interesting! But bad!" moments that those were. Anybody read much Duncan? Does he commonly throw those sort of icky scenes and attitudes into his stories?

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	waltraute 2009-02-11 12:33 am UTC (link)
	And! Murphy had her vacation with Kincaid, it was clearly implied that they romped around, and she's not ashamed or traumatized or anything bad about it, either. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	m_butterfly 2009-02-11 12:39 am UTC (link)
	And that she's gotten more involved than she intended to actually makes perfect sense for her character. (And the weird thing is, Kincaid, Ivy, and Murphy would make a good little family unit. Hell, that's part of his attractiveness for her: here is a man who is never going to expect her to be any less than an equal warrior.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	waltraute 2009-02-11 12:41 am UTC (link)
	Since we're just talking shop now, do you think that he'll have Murphy accept the Job Offer, eventually? It's been built into her imagery already--Harry's Sight sees her as a paladin, and she seems back on the upswing, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

m_butterfly
2009-02-11 12:50 am UTC (link)

I think it's more or less inevitable, especially with what seems to be happening to SI. If they kill that department, it'll put Murphy in the horrible position of having to decide if she should follow the letter of her oath, and stay a cop, or follow the spirit of it, and take up the offer. Of course, given the nature of what we're taking about, that kind of thing can't possibly be an auspicious beginning, but it's about consistent for the foreshadowing of Bad Things and Turmoil we've got going.

Also, I feel like I should know this, but are you on LJ? (Someone out there who is presumably not you is probably very confused about this filemouse person who has friended them.)

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waltraute
2009-02-11 03:46 am UTC (link)

I need to re-read (but not right now, must write other sorts of things), but yeah--I'm wondering if next book is really going to be shit-->fan or a little more gaining of ground for the good guys. The network of alliances forming is very interesting, although I just can't quite get into the Harry/Marcone slash that seems to be a fan favorite. (You have to love how much Butcher knows and tweaks fandom with all of the Harry and Thomas jokes.)

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