Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jim Butcher, James Marsters
Publisher: Buzzy Multimedia Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  293 reviews
Sales Rank: 53255
Format: Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Pages: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 1.7
ISBN: 0965725502
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780965725507
ASIN: 0965725502
Publication Date: 1997
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Product Description
Storm Front Audio Book
Written By Jim Butcher
Narrated By James Marsters (Spike from Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Angel)
My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I'm the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under Wizards. Believe it or not, I'm the only one there.
My ad looks like this:
HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARD
Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations.
Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.
No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties
or Other Entertainment
With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon. A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt Murphy of the Chicago PD Special Investigation Unit makes Harry believe things are looking up, but they are about to get worse, much worse. Someone is harnessing immense supernatural forces to commit a series of grisly murders. Someone has violated the first law of magic: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Tracking that someone takes Harry into the dangerous underbelly of Chicago, from mobsters to vampires, while he himself is under suspicion of the crimes. One thing is certain, if he can't stop whoever is on this killing spree, Harry will be the next victim.
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 I liked it, I look forward to reading more of this series. December 3, 2008
Some friends of mine turned me on to this book. I like it. I'll read more of them.
Another Dresden Fan! December 3, 2008
I found this series after reading everything Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Kelley Armstrong, etc... had written. For some reason, I thought this series was more of a "guy" series, though why on earth I thought that, I can't say. I was drawn to it when I got sick of the Anita Blake series losing plot for porn, and wanted something more richly written with great characters, and a lot of books to get into, and this was perfect.
Great characters, interesting and imaginative plots, and excellent writing- best of all, it seems each successive novel seems to get better. So buy it, buy them all- you really won't be disappointed!
Wonderful Fantasy/Wizard series...horrible audio CD November 27, 2008
I have read all ten of the Harry Dresden books and I have to say that they pull you in from the very beginning. They have a wonderful mix of wizardry, romance, suspense, violence, you name it. It all blends together in a way that leaves you longing for the next book in the series.
I must caution you though on the audio versions of the first 4 books that have been released. When I first saw the audio book versions, I was very excited until I heard them. James Marsters is the narrator and he is horrible. I highly enjoy watching James Marsters act (Buffy, Angle, Torchwood, Smallville) but narrate...he cannot. He just sounds bored. Only on characters that are not Harry Dresden does he seem to try...
If I would have started the series with the audio books...I probably never would have given them a chance and truly missed out on a wonderful series.
My advice. Read the books...enjoy the short lived TV show...skip the audio books.
Storm Front November 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For A First Time Author, This Book Wasn't Half Bad. I Didn't Like How He Had Put It In A First Person View The Entire Book, And It Seemed All He Did Was Run Around With His Brian Turned Off. Would I Recommend, If Your Bored Then Yes, Otherwise Don't Bother.
A combination of my two favourite genres November 8, 2008
Harry Dresden is a private investigator in Chicago. Not just any P.I. mind you but a practicing wizard who occasionally helps the Chicago Police when they have cases that aren't quite 'normal', and do they have a doozy for Harry now, a double murder involving the mob and a high price call girl ring.
So as a combination of fantasy and hard boiled detective stories how did I like it? Well it was good but not great. There was lots of good action with vampires, demons and even giant scorpions. Butcher's writing style is a little wooden (although I understand this was his first book so I can cut him a little slack). However there were problems integrating magic and the real world. Specifically of the `if a wizard can do X then why doesn't he just do Y instead of bothering with Z' variety. The magic is so powerful that you would expect wizards to dominate society instead of skulking in the shadows. Butcher tries to tackle this problem by laying out some guidelines in the use of magic in his world. He implies also that it is one of the functions of the White Council to police the use of magic, but if this is the case why is Harry Dresden P.I. investigating these murders and not the White Council? In fact I believe the novel would have been better served if Harry had been an agent of the White Council tracking down rogue wizards and other dangerous creatures encroaching on the non-magical world, while at the same time trying to keep his magical identity secret. But that would have worked against the hard boiled detective vibe Butcher is aiming for.
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