Dresden canon really does all apart when you reach the point where you can no longer ignore the fact that Butcher thinks Harry is awesome and a reliable narrator and a feminist ally and whatever. Different people reach that moment in different books, but eventually it becomes overwhelmingly clear that we're all reading very, very much against the text. Which would be fine--canon is full of that--but then we have Peter Grant and Nightingale, and suddenly there's this other place that's not hitting us over the head with the author's explicit nastiness, and it's so much more joyful.
(Although if Kobna Holdbrook Smith narrated Jim Butcher, maybe I'd go back to Dresden.)
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Dresden canon really does all apart when you reach the point where you can no longer ignore the fact that Butcher thinks Harry is awesome and a reliable narrator and a feminist ally and whatever. Different people reach that moment in different books, but eventually it becomes overwhelmingly clear that we're all reading very, very much against the text. Which would be fine--canon is full of that--but then we have Peter Grant and Nightingale, and suddenly there's this other place that's not hitting us over the head with the author's explicit nastiness, and it's so much more joyful.
(Although if Kobna Holdbrook Smith narrated Jim Butcher, maybe I'd go back to Dresden.)