Reading is Fun!

Have you ever been so pulled into a book that you almost can't wait to turn the page. Your eyes want to rush ahead of the words you're reading so you can find out what's happening next. The writing pulls you so far into the world that you feel like you're a part of what's happening. It's a feeling that even the best television and movies can only hint at. The written word can entrance you so much more than flickering images on a screen.

Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher was such a novel. I became fascinated by the lead character, Harry Dresden. Harry is a throw back to the heroes of old, he's not a hero that is out to kill as many of the bad guys as he can. In fact he doesn't like killing, in a previous novel he had to kill a person for the greater good and while he knows what he did was right it stills gnaws at his conscious. In comic book terms Harry is a Stan Lee hero and not a modern day Wolverine type hero.

The world Butcher has created is a mixture of our real world and a world one step away, hidden by magic veils. In his world tough Chicago police detectives co exisit with warlocks and vampires.

It's been awhile since I've discovered a new writer that so throughly entertains me. I love when I can get lost in the world of a writer. Jim Butcher is such a writer. Today I went to the store and purchased two more of the Harry Dresden books. So far there is eight in the series, this will make three of them I have. Before the week is out I'll have them all.