I just have to say that i am loving the dresden files. I have only just found them. I hadn't heard anything about them at all and just picked it up randomly in the book store. I started 2 months ago and am now just starting small favour. FANTASTIC. I just can't put them down. They are hilarious. By the way my mate has read them too and is obsessed with the fact that murphy and harry have to get together. Is anuone else obsessed with that

"Christ, Dresden! You almost got me killed!"

"Don't be a baby. You're fine."

Thomas frowned at me. "You at least could have told me!"

"I did tell you," I said. "I told you at Mac's that I'd give you a ride home, but that I had to run an errand first."

Thomas scowled. "An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo."
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The drumsticks poked up above the vampire's crushed chest, their ends wrapped in red tinfoil.

The vampire gasped and writhed a little more.

The timer popped out of the turkey.

Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice.
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and a whole lot more, love the books, keep them coming. (write faster dammit :-)

The funniest moment: In summer knight, when the battle is going on, and the Summer Lady had stollen the Unravelling. Harry snatches the thing out of her hands and yells, "Meep, meep!" and the runs like hell

i vote "kincade, bolshevic muppet"
btw the bolshevic muppet is called "mad harry"
coincedence?

I was going to do an essay on Jim but it had to be a collection of literary criticism. Please encourage more critics to read these i couldn't find much of any proffessional criticism on any of these books, I am very disapointed.

"I'm not gay."
Choking sounds heard from the kitchen.
Butters giving him a sympathic look.
"I'm not."
"sure sure I understand."

Come on just imagining that made me laugh.

Like everyone else I love Harry. I feel very fortunate that I stumbled upon such a geat series. I eagerly anticipate the movie this summer and the Dead Beat cover art is fantastic. I was nice to see in print what my imaination had already pictured. Harry's hot!

"Kincaid! Bolshevik muppet!"

Blood Rites was the bomb...and I'll bet this phrase gets thrown around our house at least half dozen times a week...that's what you get for sticking half a dozen Butcher fans under one roof for long periods....

"Tequila? are you sure on that one? i thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne."
"champagne, tequila, whats the difference?"
"uh, i'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result"
-storm front

Wow! thats basically sums up my feelings on dead beat. it was the first book of yours ive read jim and im hooked. cant wait to start from the beginning...I'm giving a speech about you next monday. i hope i do you justice..

Best quote, in my opinion.

"Took cover," I provided. "In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's alot more heroic."

"Right," Butters said, flushing. "I took cover."

"It's fun, taking cover," I said. "I take cover all the time." - Dead Beat

can't believe this got left out...

Bob the skull: Harry what you know about women, i could juggle.

From Dead Beat:

"Anybody who lets me ride their dinosaur can call me Carlos."

Great Books -Great memorable lines
I only wish my 16 year old would return them so I could read them again- Oh well, at least she is doing something constructive with her time and not destructive. Keep up the good works
A Canadian fan

Can't believe no one else is in a Zen mood.

"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar."

Bob the skull: "Harry, why don't you try something safer like administering suppositories to rabid gorillas."

Michael: "What are you waiting for, Harry? Let's go find her."
Harry: "But your kids..."
(Michael opens the door to reveal Father Forthill on the other side)
Father Forthill: "Oh. Michael. I didn't mean to stop by so late, but my car stalled only a block from here on the way back from taking Mrs. Hamish home, and I thought I might borrow...You need a baby-sitter again, don't you."
Michael: "They're already asleep. Do you mind?"
Father Forthill: "Never. God go with you."
Michael: "You see, Harry?"
Harry: "Handy fringe benefit."

Ubriacha, ubriachas, ubrium... to the Peanuts theme. Classic. I had the Snoopy song in my head for a week after that one.

From Fool Moon:

"What did you do?"

"Nothing, never came close, didn't do anything, that's my story and I'm sticking to it," I muttered. "You got that paper cup? Right, then. All we need is a stuffed animal."

He stared at me. "Wh-what did you say?!"

"A stuffed animal, man!" I roared at him. "Don't mess with a wizard while he's wizarding!"

Maybe I'd been shut away in my lab too long, but Spenser never mentions that Mab has a great ass.

So I notice these things. So sue me.

"Short people got nobody to love" to some effect.

"The action hero one liners don't count if you mix metaphors." - "Oh well, looks like no Harry Dresden action figures for me."

For my next trick, anvils!

Hmm… it is tough to pick a favorite quote with so many to choose from.

Dead Beat was rife with hilarity. Especially “Polka will never die” and Harry trying to defend himself against Butters' assumption that he was gay ^^

Though, I must say, perhaps the two most memorable quotes for me were found in Summer Knight.

First::
“----The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which was worth a shot. What the hell…
“I DON’T BELIEVE IN FAERIES!’

And second::
When Harry calls in the calvary, and Toot Toot appears, raising his weapon high…
“In the name of the Pizza Lord, CHARGE!”

Lol, ^_^

To Mr. Butcher—Nothing you have not heard a million times before… You’re books are genius. I do not think there has ever been a series of books that has pulled together so many emotions into so awesome a tale. It takes a lot to impress me—and for me to burst out laughing whilst reading Summer Knight, breaking the ominous silence of a 300+ lecture hall during the last stretch of a hideous microbiology exam… well, lol, that’s damned impressive. As an avid fan of your work—I thanks for the fun. I count the days until Proven Guilty hits the stores.
Take care,
TheSilentHerald

The opening passage to Dead Beat has to be one of my all-time faves.

" On the whole, we're a murderous race.

According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming.

As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding.

For freaking Cain."

Happy birthday Jim.

I Hope you had a good one. My first Wedding anavery was on the same day and We had a blast.

Best Wishes , And I look forward to reading many more of your books. I can't wait for the next one.

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

"Polka will never die!"

Life is a Journey....Time is a river....The door is a Jar....

The Best Lines from the funniest and most outrageous ( at the same time) book ever Summer Knight:

The Noise was Deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own Battle Cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the Hell.

"I Don't believe in Faeries!"

"Give me the pen.."

"Because it must be done," he answered without hesitation. For the good of the people, some must place themselves in harm's way. Some must pledge their courage and their lives to protect the community."

"Just a minute," I said. "You became a Knight of the Cross because you were a communist."

Sanya's face twisted with revultion. "Certainly not. Trotsky. Very different."

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Really, the whole conversation where Sanya and Harry talk for the first time. Best. Scene. Ever.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts. -p.118 Storm Front

Some things just aren’t meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

Wizards and television.

"Good Afternoon." [Michael] said.
I smiled tiredly at him. "Your faith protects you, eh?" ...
"My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps."

Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I am too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Octoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die!