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Apr 28, 2010 09:32

My brain is so weird sometimes ( Read more... )

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oceans_heart April 28 2010, 16:39:12 UTC

Are you going to post your essay here? I just finished reading Changes and would to love to see your thoughts how Morgan's death led to everything that just happened.

kippurbird April 28 2010, 16:46:08 UTC

If I write it, I shall. I haven't read Changes yet. My roommate lent her copy to another friend and I will have to wait until it comes back. But I have a vague idea of the plot.

Plus the interesting thing about the title of the book. Usually they're two words in a sort of pun relating to the story. I think my favorite one is "Dead Beat". However in Changes the title is, as it is seen, only one word. That word is change. Thus indicating the complete shifting of focus of the books into something a lot larger in scope than just Chicago. The fact that Changes also takes place somewhere else for part of it (I don't know how much yet) also is an indication of the shift in focus...

Um... I think I'm going to go open a google doc now.

oceans_heart April 28 2010, 16:49:23 UTC

I don't want to give anything away and let you have the chance to enjoy it all yourself, but yeah there was not a single better title for the book. The scope that Butcher took on for the book was very impressive and while it did have a few are you kidding me WTF moments, for the most part it was amazing. Can't wait to hear your thoughts!

kippurbird April 28 2010, 16:58:11 UTC

He did have Harry ride a T-Rex dinosaur in Dead Beat which is pretty WTF-amazing. But I'm guessing you mean something else?

oceans_heart April 28 2010, 17:09:23 UTC

It was more along the lines of Ok Jim did you really need to do that to Harry? Was that really necessary?

kippurbird April 28 2010, 17:20:35 UTC

Ah! The beat him with a stick sort of WTF.

swevene April 28 2010, 17:24:14 UTC

And drop him off a ladder... maybe shoot him a bit...

Poor guy.

kippurbird April 28 2010, 17:48:17 UTC

Author's punching bag?

swevene April 28 2010, 17:49:45 UTC

More like author's crash test dummy.

oceans_heart April 28 2010, 18:07:56 UTC

Makes you wonder how bad Jim's year was that he felt the need to do all that.

easol May 2 2010, 02:14:09 UTC

I wonder if he was deliberately doing the reverse of certain other urban fantasy authors, who avoid killing off characters or having anything permanently bad happen to their characters.

I also think he's cleaning the slate -- erasing all that we've known, so he can do something different in future.

easol May 2 2010, 02:12:33 UTC

And drop a brick on his head, set fire to his underwear...

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