Given the name of the leader of this community, I figured I’d throw this out there:

I’ve never read any of Jim Butcher’s books, and have heard good things about The Dresden Files.

Where do I start? Is there a good website to show a suggested reading order, etc?

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    The first book, Storm Front, is awful. Apparently he wrote it as part of a college project? I’ve been told the series gets better as it goes along, but I was never able to get past the first book.

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t even mind the writing. I read the first three or four. I could even get past some of the cliche shit like electronics breaking because he’s a wizard harry. But he is such a m’lady neckbeard that I just gave up.

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      1 year ago

      It was a creative writing class by another author if I remember the story. He had graduated with a literature degree already and was trying and failing to write super high-minded stuff and get it published. This teacher and he were butting heads because she wanted him to basically do a story that he considered trope-y or cliched. So finally he sat down to prove her wrong and out popped the first part of Dresden files. She sent him home to map out the rest and he misunderstood and mapped out the entire series when she meant the rest of the book.