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  • Storm Front

  • The Dresden Files, Book 1
  • By: Jim Butcher
  • Narrated by: James Marsters
  • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (55,870 ratings)

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Publisher's summary

My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I'm the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under Wizards. Believe it or not, I'm the only one there.

With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon. A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt. Murphy of the Chicago PD Special Investigation Unit makes Harry believe things are looking up, but they are about to get worse, much worse. Someone is harnessing immense supernatural forces to commit a series of grisly murders. Someone has violated the first law of magic: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Tracking that someone takes Harry into the dangerous underbelly of Chicago, from mobsters to vampires, while he himself is under suspicion of the crimes.

©2000 Jim Butcher (P)2002 Buzzy Multimedia

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I look forward to hearing more stories from the Harry Dresden series.
The narrator is very talented.

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captivating

loved the action, the humor and intrigue. The reading was good. He has a good voice and conveys good emotion.

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An excellent story.

A friend of mine recommended this story, and I now see why they loved it.

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Story was good, reader not so much

The story was good, very entertaining, but the person reading it did a poor job. The voice seemed to match the story but he made odd breaks in the reading, as if their were periods in the middle of the sentence, which disrupted the flow of the story. Otherwise, it's a good listen.

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I don't usually like audio books

I normally don't like audio books but the narrator is amazing, he keeps me tuned in and his voice acting is spot on. The tone that he read the book in just fits the theme and character so well.

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What a Character

I'd never heard of Jim Butcher or Harry Dresden until I downloaded this first book on a whim. I should pay more attention to my whims. A delightful novel and a great narrator. I'm collecting the rest of this series.

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Not bad

The narration was excellent. The story was okay.

I am not a fan of the detective noir genre. It's too formulaic for me and in this story every page was like walking through molasses, meaning he couldn't walk down the street without being attacked by demons, beaten up by hoods or rejected by a girlfriend. It was well written, but the constant struggles of the main character made it feel slow.

People who enjoy that genre will love it.

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great book and amazing reader

so freaking good. the narrator does such a great job and you know who is talking without help or going back to re listen.

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love the book, hate the narration.

I love the Dresden Files, but I'm not a big fan of how this guy narrated it. otherwise it's a great book

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Best book series, and narrator I've come across!

I've listened to the Dresden file's once all the way through. Now I'm going back to listen to them again. I haven't found a narrator I like more! Each book in the series is better then the last.

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