A review by apatrick
The Dresden Files Collection 1-6 by Jim Butcher

Did not finish book.

This was my second attempt at Jim Butcher's books, and I have to give up. It's a slog. Maybe my error was picking a six-book compilation. I don't know very many authors I could read six works by without fatigue. Maybe Stephen King, or Dean Koontz, or Neal Stephenson (big maybe, there), or Nick Harkaway (has he written six yet?) or Tom Robbins, for sure, or Christopher Moore, in a heartbeat, or Jasper Fforde, in the second heartbeat; could be Dan Simmons, I did that sometime in the last few years; Stephen Pinker, could be. Ooh, what about James Gleick, if we're going to go into non-fiction! Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Arielly might be a little bit of a stretch, Umberto Eco, ditto.

Huh. I guess it's not the number of books. I guess it's just uninspired, repetitive writing and dated characters, together with plots that just don't make the pages fly by.