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2020-09-07, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
SpoilerMaybe 1304 was the century the outsiders decided to take a break, because they knew this starborn nonsense was coming again and they just didnt want to put up with it for a while.“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2020-09-07, 09:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
Sad that we're a hundred years off for Jeanne d'Arc on that one.
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2020-09-07, 05:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
Dude, time passes differently in the Nevernever. It's trivial for us to come up with an explanation. Clearly, someone anticipated that the Outsiders would be causing trouble in about a century, and arranged for a Starborn to be displaced in time to fight them.
Alignments are objective. Right and wrong are not.
Good: Will act to prevent harm to others even at personal cost.
Evil: Will seek personal benefit even if it causes harm to others.
Law: General, universal, and consistent trump specific, local, and inconsistent.
Chaos: Specific, local, and inconsistent trump general, universal, and consistent.
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2020-09-15, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
Two weeks to the next book! I can hardly wait.
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2020-09-22, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
So i was re-reading through Peace Talks in anticipation of the next one in a couple of weeks, and something caught my eye.
SpoilerWhen Mab was mortal, she evidently had some connection to Merlin (as in the original Merlin) and he rejected her in some way. Could Mab have been Morgana La Fey as a mortal? IIRC, it was Morgana's athame that was given to Lea which infected her, and a personal artifact like that would have special significance to its former wielder, such that it could be used against them. We also know the title La Fey and its variants are given out to mortal wizards who have a lot of known association with the actual faeries, like Dresden's mother did. Perhaps she came into the mantle of the winter queen in a way similar to Molly?“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2020-09-22, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
Possible, but we don't have enough information to really delve into the issue.
Incidentally, I have a theory on the Dresden Files timeline. As we all know, until Peace Talks, the books were coming out about a year apart, and the events in them were for the most part also about a year apart. But even though Peace Talks came out 5 years after Skin Game, the events of Skin Game are referenced as having happened the previous year. But we know that Peace Talks doesn't take place in 2016 (the year after Skin Game came out) because there is a mention of the 2019 fire at Norte-Dame de Paris. So Peace Talks has to take place in either 2019 or 2020; that means that Skin Game has to take place in either 2018 or 2019. So my theory is that Storm Front doesn't take place in the year it was written (2000) but rather in either 2004 or 2005, and the time of each of the other books moves up as well. Thoughts?
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2020-09-22, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
I would be all for it, since that would make Dresdens most likely Birth year either that of my best Pal, or my own. ^^
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2020-09-24, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
Something I noticed my second time through was:
SpoilerThe grumpy old man across the street from the Carpenters glared at Harry while wearing a red baseball cap.
And the Redcap is part of Molly's entourage now...so that's likely him, assigned to watch the family. Betcha he'll do some rules lawyering for stuff with Maggie.
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2020-09-25, 08:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
I just finished reading it. Cannot wait for the next one.
Do we have to spoiler-tag everything? It makes this thread damnably difficult to navigate, and frankly, if you're not caught up, there's no reason you should be reading a [Contains Spoilers] thread in the first place.SpoilerRunning:
Voyages of the Ghostlight (Risus)
Playing:
The Bloody Crown (WFRP) as Elsabeth Holt, rogue pyromancer and court wizard
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2020-09-25, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
Normally I'd agree, but given that it's only half a story, I think it's reasonable to keep spoiling things until a bit after Battle Grounds comes out.
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2020-09-25, 09:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-09-25, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2020-09-26, 12:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
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2020-09-26, 02:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-07, 10:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jim Butcher's Peace Talks: Dresden Files Book 16 [Contains Spoilers]
Found Peace Talks to be aggressively mediocre. The overall plot was focusing on what I cared about the least in the entire book.
Then the action wasn't as punchy as it usually is the dialog wasn't good (apparently Dresden cares more about pancakes than anybody has ever cared about anything in the history of the world.) And the plot was clearly just a dress rehearsal for Battleground. And I still have to pay full price for both books.