The Jim Butcher Files: Dresden . Codex Alera . Cinder Spires & More

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Originally Posted by alansplace

Since I last posted about what I've been reading while waiting I finished reading The Black Echo (Harry Bosch #1) by Michael Connelly which I had just started. I liked it a lot, so I read the 2nd one in the series and also liked it a lot, then I read the 3rd one in the series and then the 4th one in the series, so now I've begun reading the 5th book . . . and I'm hooked for sure!

I completed my read of the 5th book, Trunk Music and it's the best so far as well as being the story that season 2 of the Amazon TV series, Bosch is based on. But no problem there as there are a whole lot of differences between the two (however both are GREAT!).

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Guest Info

NAME: JIM BUTCHER
APPEARING: All Three Days
KNOWN FOR: Author of The Dresden Files series, The Codex Alera series, the Cinder Spires series
WEBSITE: Official Jim Butcher Website
Guest Bio

Jim Butcher is a New York Times best selling author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files.

While he was sick with strep throat as a child, Butcher’s sisters introduced him to The Lord of the Rings and The Han Solo Adventures novels to pass the time, thus beginning his fascination with fantasy and science fiction. After many unsuccessful attempts to enter the traditional fantasy genre (he cites J. R. R. Tolkien, Lloyd Alexander, and C.S. Lewis, among others, as major influences), he wrote the first book in The Dresden Files—about a professional wizard, named Harry Dresden, in modern-day Chicago—as an exercise for a writing course in 1996 at the age of 25.

As of 2015, Butcher has written 15 novels set in the Dresden Files universe, plus a number of short stories (some of which are collected in the anthology Side Jobs). The series has also been released in audiobook format, with all but one audiobook read by FanX Alumnus James Marsters. Other works set in the same fictional universe include graphic novels (two new stories, plus adaptations of the first two novels), and The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game. In 2007, a television series based on the novels aired for one season on the American Sci-Fi Channel.

After the success of Dresden, Butcher returned to the traditional fantasy genre with his second series, Codex Alera, which has six total books to date. Butcher also recently began a new steampunk series called The Cinder Spires, which begins with the release of the first book, The Aeronaut’s Windlass, on September 29, 2015.

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[DuckieTigger]

That has to be a slight hint that soon there won't be Jim Butcher books, but Butcher cologne. Wonder if it will smell like fresh slaughtered meat. Yum.

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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

That has to be a slight hint that soon there won't be Jim Butcher books, but Butcher cologne. Wonder if it will smell like fresh slaughtered meat. Yum.

Ducky, I think you needed to insert a couple of smileys in the above as I cannot believe you were serious when you wrote that!!!

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[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by alansplace

^This LOL!

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Originally Posted by Nyssa

^This LOL!

Glad that somebody liked it!

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Review of The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Review of The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher

Strange. The review is not all that favorable at times, but still gets rated a 4/5. Like two different people wrote it - at first how it is not as good as other Butcher books, and then how great the air battles are which got critized for being in a steampunk at first.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by alansplace

^ Here!

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