{"id":3112,"date":"2011-09-09T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2011-09-09T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T18:43:00","slug":"white-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"White Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve reached a crisis point in my reading of the Dresden Files. See, there’s always (by which I mean starting in the third book or so) been a long-term story being told, and I know this. Plus, there’s always been continuity, and I know this too. But until White Night<\/a>, I’ve been able to\u00a0pick\u00a0up each new book and just read it, and remember enough about the previous continuity and the long-term story to do just fine. Now, though…<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I remembered enough to keep up with Harry Dresden’s rampage through the spirit world in response to the recent murders of magic-sensitive women, that took him through several trips down memory lane and culminated in, as usual, mostly everybody but Harry winning big[1], but there was at least one world-shaking revelation that lacked the punch I think it should have had. And I know it’s only going to get worse. So now what?<\/p>\n

If there were a lot of books left, obviously I’d just read them. But the truth of the matter is, I’m only a few behind now, and there are (I believe) quite a few to come, as yet unwritten. So if I were<\/em> to rush it now, I’d just have the same problem in October. So I guess I’ll just stick with what I’m doing? (I do kind of wish I could do online research without fear of massive spoilers, though.)<\/p>\n

Oh, anyway, I did want to say that I continue to be intrigued by Harry’s emotional ups and downs. Struggle with sexism? Sort of. Really, he embraces it, but I have the impression that the more he talks about it, the more he is trying to figure out a better way. Anger issues? Big time. Too much paranoia (or justified fear) to work well with others? Oh, my, yes. But he’s still unquestionably a good guy, and that’s what I like best about him. The nuances. He’s an interesting, interesting person.<\/p>\n

[1] At least he continues to win small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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