Jim Butcher Video Interview.
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WoW – almost did not recognize him with the new haircut. He still is quite dashing to me.
I must say I loved Changes, I think this is the best in the series to date.
His haircut threw me for a moment too but his voice and his eyes are unmistakeable. Great interview. Wish he would get to Knoxville one of these days.
I LOVE all of the Harry books, but I have to say that Changes drove me crazy!!
All of the things that happen to Harry were VERY upsetting. The book is fantastic, (as they all are), I just was unhappy with all of the things(trying not to write a spoiler) that kept happening in Harry’s world. He suffers soooooo much and is always “Ass deep in aligators”, but this time I think He may be in over his head….Loved the books, keep writing them! Oh, and James Marsters does a wonderful job of bring the Harry Universe to life..Great job!
Thank you for interview; it’s wonderful and always a treat to hear Jim talk about his books, and hearing Jim speak as Sanya in a Russian accent made me smile.
Hey, I was at that signing!
Jim Butcher is an amazing writer who knows just how to hook his audience from the first page and keep them reading all the way to the last… and leaving them wanting more! Each book is better and better than the last. Keep up the good work, Jim!
Thanks for giving that interview, Jim, and thanks for posting it! Jim answered my main question,which was will there be more books?
I found out about the books from the TV show, now available on Hulu.com (in the US). Show is lots of fun, and I’m sorry it was canceled before I even saw it. The books are better, more complete, as usual. It’s hard to take over 300 pages and put them on TV. I’ve only read 5 so far, and not in a row. I’ll save “Changes” for last – until the next one comes out next year.
Changes certainly lived up to its name. There were very few things that didn’t end up changing and usually in the slash and burn method. I liked the book quite a bit on my first run through but thought it was odd that I did so upon further reflection. It seems that Harry’s sense of moral relativity went completely screwy in this book in a very non-realistic way compared to everything we’ve learned about him up to this point. In the past, he’s always been unwilling to take the devil’s choice and sacrifice the moral high ground, no matter what it’s cost him or even those around him.
Take this scenario. Harry’s daughter is about to be killed somewhere and there’s no way he can stop it. He gets offered a binding agreement (fae truthx3 or oath on own’s power, whatever) that his daughter will be let go if he goes to the local kindergarten and stabs the first kid he sees in the eye with a knife.
There is absolutely no way he would have even considered this bargain much less done it…or at least that’s what I thought. After Changes, I’m not so sure because that’s more or less what all his decisions did do, put a ridiculous amount of innocents at risk not to mention that HOLY CRAP! moment during the climax. Either any person can be pushed too far or we didn’t really know Harry to begin with.
Jim,
Thanks for the great interview. I enjoyed it a lot. And I like your summer do! Stylin. I’m still a big fan of the Dresden Files. Although I am a bit behind on them at the moment, but I will catch up. Thanks for the info and keep em coming.
Harry is willing to compromise a lot of his personal and professional standards to save his daughter’s life but the deals he makes are ones that have (moral) danger to him not to innocents. I don’t believe Harry would hurt an innocent even to save his daughter. Susan was a good person and someone he loved but I wouldn’t compare her to an innocent kindergartener.
That’s what I had believed, but it’s hard to reconcile it with his actions in Changes, which were reckless beyond belief. Ebenezer put it best. This was clearly a case of putting a thousand little girls against the value of one and choosing the one only because she was his. There’s more than a little selfishness to that perspective. Not to mention, he basically manipulated Susan to her death, as he himself admits, someone who trusted and obviously still loved him. On the evil scale, that falls somewhere between burning puppies and killing nuns with an axe.
In the end, I’m not certain at all he wouldn’t have knifed the kindergartener. He said as much when killing Slate. There were all sorts of justifications he could have used to do it, but he admitted that none of it mattered. Even if Slate hadn’t been an evil sob and hadn’t wanted to die, Harry would have still ganked him.
But Harry did NOT put a thousand little girls against the life of one and Harry was well aware that Susan would lay down her life for her little girl as Harry himself was in the process of doing. After all Harry taking those offers which will endanger his soul was all about laying down his life for that of his little girl. This was THEIR child and both seperatly and together they would do everything that they could to save her. Funny thing is if it turned out that this had been Susan’s child by another father I believe he would have done the same thing. If you think that Susan was only being manipulated then I don’t believe you give her enough credit.
In the words of an old Star Trek movie, Wrath of Khan (and a paraphrase of Ciaphas the High Priest that sold out Jesus) “the needs of the many outweight the needs of the few…or the one” or the later quote from the Search for Spock”The Needs of the One outweigh the needs of the Many” wherein the entire crew determines to “risk their lives and careers” to do whatever it takes to find their lost crew member, Mr. Spock. They do “questionable” things; they ignore the commands of their superiors; they endanger the lives of others, all to find Mr. Spock, because they could not turn their back on the possibility of saving him.
In my opinion, that’s exactly what he did, not only in thought but in deed. It’s clear that a lot of those decisions were based on the fact that the kid was his and there’s no way he would have gone as far if it weren’t. Look at all the times he’s passed up opportunities to take Mab’s offer in the past, when a shot of power would have allowed him to accomplish his goals. Even when other lives were at stake. He pulled the trigger this time with cavalier abandon because she was his child. If nothing else, look at the effect Uriel’s revelation had upon him.