Storm Front
The Dresden Files, Book 1
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Storm Front
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Narrated by:
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James Marsters
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By:
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Jim Butcher
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.
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.
©2000 Jim Butcher (P)2002 Buzzy Multimedia
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Hard to get past the various mouth noises by the narrator, which my have been by design--I'm not sure. After I heard that first "smacking" noise I couldn't NOT hear them.
However, I really liked the overall story. Harry, the good Wizard who likes to read and has a fabulous sense of humor, and fights crime! I can see why these stories have such a large following.
If you enjoy off-beat crime/fiction with some fantasy thrown in, I recommend it.
Smack, Slurp, Swallow, Sigh---Repeat
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Love the book and the narrator
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Would you consider the audio edition of Storm Front to be better than the print version?
Marster's does an excellent job of giving the story the right noir/gum-shoe feel. Like a fantasy Phillip MarlowWhat was one of the most memorable moments of Storm Front?
The scene where Dresden confronts Biancha was tense and had a cinematic feel.What about James Marsters’s performance did you like?
Marsters' acting ability was well suited to the first-person narration. He was an excellent choice. Unfortunately there were semi-frequent places where he might mess up the inflection, breathe at the wrong time- things that should have been re-recorded but made it feel like it was rushed and they couldn't be bothered. It detracted from the experience, but not enough that I wouldn't recommend listening.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, the chapter breaks were well placed for tension and length.Any additional comments?
Looking forward to hearing more in the series, hopefully the director/editor will have done his job and not make it feel slightly low-budget or amateurish.good, but flawed performance
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Well...then there was that 3 for 2 sale...so I got 2 and 3...so I could discuss with my dad. Thing is...the series starts getting good right around book 3. I had a bunch of credits...so, fine, I'll get one more...Now I'm on the last hour of book 10, and just spent my LAST credit on book 11. Every time I tell myself this will be the last one, and every time I'm buying the next one before the one I'm on is done.
Butcher does an excellent job of catching you up on what happened in the previous book - and by "excellent", I mean he spends about 15 seconds hitting the high points - perfect. The characters in this series all just continue to grow on me - Dresden is a very lovable main character - but the other characters are just as good - Murphy, Michael, Marcone, Toot-toot, Thomas, Ivy, Kincaid, Molly - my god - I'm just realizing how long the list of characters I like is...and yeah, some of the few I listed aren't in book 1...or aren't...as important yet.
Marsters is an excellent narrator - I'd have given him 5 stars, except that he makes a few small changes throughout the series - from the voice or accent of a character to the pronunciation of a name - and in his defense, the changes are few - and they are the correct changes...
Anyway - the only real complaint I have about this series is that I go through the books so fast.
Goodbye credits...
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The performance was a little clunky at first. the reader smacked his lips and swallowed hard too many times to go unnoticed. There was also a board tone to the reading that didn't seem quite right. After a while however these things seemed to calm down or I stopped noticing them so it wasn't a huge deal. If these things turn you off at first, keep listening it gets better.
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