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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Book Twenty-five</strong><br/><img src="http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/1031/n141912yw0.jpg" class="escapedImg"/><br/><em>Dead Beat</em> by Jim Butcher<br/><br/><strong>&quot;Hell's Bells&quot; count - 13</strong><br/><br/>While I was on my long commute to work (not so bad, as it affords me more reading time), I wondered what the Harry Dresden from <em>Storm Front</em> would have made of the Harry Dresden from this bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21562189">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, I may be a little done with the Dresden files. The humor is fun, one liners are great, but the typical storyline goes like this:<br/>Harry tries to solve a mystery without letting friends or self get killed in the process; uses magic; is conflicted about the source of his magic or alliances; av...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41906040">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is my favorite of the series so far.  The thought of bringing a T-Rex to life and riding it was just so outrageous.  This book really brought my imagination to life.  Butters is such a great character also.]]></body>
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    <review id="29668125">
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    <body><![CDATA[The problem with rating book 1 of a series with 4 stars is that it doesn't leave much room for improvement, which I really should have! In the Dresden Files series, Dead Beat is the best one I've read to date. My friend who is loaning me books 4-8 says that they just keep getting better, and he is r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29668125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These books get better and better, I absolutely loved this one.  Fantastical romp with a serious side.<br/><br/>I loved all the supporting characters.  Ridiculous and tempting and comical and mysterious--love to all!<br/><br/>I loved the bigger and bigger baddies---HOW does he do that?  Usually ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42937397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could mention what every other review has mentioned as a reason to read this book.  I could point out that Harry is an everyman, and he is not really special in the way that other female paranormal characters tend to be (he's not the most powerful whatever, he's not the only something).  I could p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72540808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite never having read another from the Dresden Files, this volume stands on its own quite nicely. Every book begins with a little recap and place setting and then dives into the plot headfirst. Harry Dresden is a likeable human who happens to be a badass wizard with a lot of problems. In this vo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49005121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This 7th volume I think was my least favorite to date of the Dresden Files novels.  In general the books in this series have gotten better as the series grows but this one fell flat for me.  <br/>Plot Synopsis – There’s necromancers, there’s a book they all want that will make one of them a g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63157973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A rather fine entry in the series, however it does suffer from what I call 'hard back bloat' meaning, that it felt a little &quot;padded out.&quot;  This was the first entry in the series to be published in hard back I'm hoping the unnecessary padding doesn't carry through. <br/><br/>I'm of the ra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46351204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex is worth the price of admission to this frenetic Halloween treasure hunt.<br/><br/>Going to absurd lengths to protect Murphy's reputation when a big bad from the past dangles some incriminating evidence in front of Harry, our favorite wizard-for-hire proceeds to hamster t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74559500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the 7th in the series, and I hate to say that it's a bit of a let-down so far. The first six were compelling, fun, scary, and entertaining, but this one just seems to lose steam and any sense of urgency. The fact that I set it aside and haven't picked it up since March probably says more tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55512039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book blows the series so far out of the water. It's replaced Summer Knight as my favorite of the series. Fast paced and deep enough to really sink my teeth into, while slower then some of the others in the end it has a more even pace for the plot to unfold in. The cascade of twists and turns ke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44021202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really took me by surprise. At first I thought, OK... we have a young wizard named Harry and he's going up against some scary necromancers who are all followers of some big nasty necromancers that the White Council put down just before Harry was born... Haven't I already ready this book? H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52064909">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love Harry! It's taken me awhile as I tend to read these in spurts. My friend, Condra, said that Harry was getting hotter and more angsty as the series went along and it didn't disappoint!<br/><br/>I did miss having Murphy in the book as she is always a great addition. Just the way Harry sees her ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61055837">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first book I read in the Dresden Files Series.  It's wondrous in it's cliched, pulpy, dorky humor, but that doesn't mean they aren't worth reading.  It's pretty fantastic to have this sort of cross-breeding in genres, and I completely approve of it.  I'd definitely suggest these to someone on th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54929127">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59857365">
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    <body><![CDATA[What a ride! Jim Butcher doesn't spare Harry for at least a second and luckily, wizards have a better ability to heal graver injuries and non-magical folk. A fact or rather a theory, we learn in this book. A lot of stuff from the former books come back and are important and new stuff and characters ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59857365">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67337343">
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read all the Dresden files and this one is my favourite (although I still haven't been able to pick up a copy of this one yet--huh).  I enjoy Harry's character (not to be confused with Mr Potter) and he's still going strong in this book.  The action comes fast and furious and this book serves t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67337343">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[About halfway through this book, I was finding myself sneaking in chapters when I was supposed to be doing other things.  It was very, very bad of me, I know.  I've commented on several aspects of the series in reviews of the other books.  One of the things I like is that each story is complete, but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57285942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Junk reading, but good junk reading. My biggest pleasures in reading Butcher are his adventurous take on the myths that show up in fantasies, and his use of sarcasm. What he does with Sue from the Field Museum was <em>so</em> much more inventive that what <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17061.Charlaine_Harris" title="Charlaine Harris">Charlaine Harris</a> did anywhere in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/301082.Dead_Until_Dark_Sookie_Stackhouse_1_" title="Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris">Dead Until Dark</a>. I'm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47124666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love Harry Dresden.  I don't think I've ever seen a hero who gets the tar beat out of him in every. single. book.<br/><br/>I have one more book to read before I'm caught up on the entire series, though it's one right in the middle, considering I skipped about three of the novels and have si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46927786">more...</a>]]></body>
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