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[sharkcowsheep]

Aigh. If Harry Dresden whines even once more about how being touched by a woman in the most trivial capacity is SOOOOO NIIIIICE and how it's been SOOOO LOOOOONG, I'm going to mail Jim Butcher a goddamn fleshlight

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[staxxy]

"sadgasms" is the best word I have seen this Spring!!

[gamethyme]

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who found Dresden more and more difficult to slog through.

[sharkcowsheep]

Reading three in three days is probably a factor in my case. Kind of like pancakes for every meal.

[fenmere]

Dresden does eventually get over that crap, but his weening is brutal.

Not so sure about the other crutches and cliches, but while I definitely noticed them, they never got in the way of the plot for me.

[sharkcowsheep]

I am picky as hell and my narrative immersion dries up like a grape on a salt flat when I start noticing authorial patterns. Something in my brain seems to prefer examining the author through the lens of their work over, you know, actually enjoying a fun story.

This is why I mostly read nonfiction. :P

Thank god he finally knocks it off, though. I haven't actually read the book where it happens, though, so I can still hope that SPOILER GIRLFRIEND tells him to quit worshipping and start screwing.

[grymor]

I don't suppose Thomas and Lara are valid counter points to the Force vs Finesse issue (at least with regards to physicals. with regards to politics, it's a bit of a glaring example)?

[sharkcowsheep]

Not so much, at least not that I've noticed. I just finished White Night and wasn't struck by much of a difference in their ass-kicking modes: I suppose that COULD be taken as an avoidance of the trope, but it seems a pretty mild one.

[grymor]

Fair enough.

[sharkcowsheep]

That's not to say it doesn't count, only that I think it doesn't count ENOUGH. The force vs. finesse has been enough of a Thing that it needs a full-on subversion. And I suppose that's another reason why Lara (and Charity) being able to kick ass doesn't count as a subversion, because there's a distinct bit of lady-pedestalling that goes on and they're both stuck up there in Beautiful Avenging Goddess drag while they're doing it. Still a shorthand copout, just a different kind.

So. To show that he CAN avoid it, he really is going to have to make a low-powered guy who gets by on brains. Marcone might be a candidate, but to answer the multiple times he's done it with lady magic-users I'd much rather see it done with a male wizard.

[hane]

Reading all of his books (and I have read them all) was enjoyable, but now I can't quite remember what the hell they were even about, and I distinctly remember getting miffed over cliches and wasted opportunities.

It's hard for me to say I like books that make me think to myself good lord they're letting anything get published these days, but I did like the T-Rex.

[sharkcowsheep]

Oh, I do like them. A step above potato chips--pizza-roll books, I'd say? Sue was fucking awesome, and I suspect the whole book flowed naturally from the idea that having Harry ride a zombie Tyrannosaurus Rex into war would be fucking rad. And it was. The other battles all blur together because it's all so D&D, but there'll always be Sue.