Did you discover the books because of the TV Show?

[bryan@jonesengineers.us]

Didn't see the show. My foster-daughter shared them with me. Kids are great.

[csee8222]

I love the books in spite of the show. Wasn't covered in your poll options.

[shades of grey]

Saw the show, checked out my local Waterstones, splashed out on the first six books immediately.  Never looked back.

[Andris]

funny thing, but I'm a big James Marsters fan.. and google told me, hes reading Jim's books - did I ever had a chance to resist the urge to get more info?
so, here I am, having all 11 novels on my smartphone/mp3 player - as a sort of "zen for every day" excercise... and running out of stuff to read/listen while waiting for Ghost Story,

btw, for all the paper back readers - check it out, in my humble opinion, James Marsters (aka Spike from Buffy, for the TV series challenged) did absolutely fantastic reading and, seems like, enjoy it a lot.

and, if we go into the dark side - Jim and his books did help me to get over the probably my worst (2010) year in my whole life since I realized myself as a huNam being.

just a big "Thank You!" and  very deep bow - I know it may not seem like a lot, but its from the living heart!

[Remy Sinclair]

My wife and I are both sadly never heard of the books until we saw the TV show. We thought the previews on SyLy was interesting. We were looking for a new series because our obsessions at the time one was not coming out fast enough in book form (Kim Harrison's Hollow Series) & Hamilton destroying her Anita Blake series.

I grabbed the first book and the rest is history. We devoured all the books up to White Knight in that summer. We became huge fans. It is really bad here we now get them on audio then buy the paperbacks. We cannot contain our excitement when one is reading and the wife is a slow reader. So we listen to books now which is really good. Helps also when we have long trips or nothing is on (since TV is mostly crap now adays).

Sipping and cuddling listening to the books. With what happened in Changes no way could we have kept that in when the other was reading. It was a shock.

This has become our most series and books. Hell when the RPG came out we jumped at getting it and playing. I ran a campaign now I am playing in a new one.

This is one of my favorite series (and it is the top series for me). I even love the supporting cast. Not one bad character in my honest opinion.

Now we have a little girl and she is listening to Dresden! Every story well written and I have reread or listened to them over and over again. Always catching something new or going over something new.

[Target, shoot me]

I heard of the show, got interested and started reading the books. The first Dresden I read was Proven Guilty. I was lucky in that you can jump into the Dresdenverse a few books in, and didn't really have any trouble keeping up with the story, getting to know the characters was breeze as well, Jim's just awesome like that. I read them all in order after falling in love with the snark. 

[Razil]

I first read Storm Front about six months before the show airred. I only found out about the show because of Eureka. And I continue to love the books despite how awful the show was. Horribly adapted, horribly miscast.

[Mr. Ghostbuster]

I've never seen the show. A friend recommended the series to me a couple years ago. At the time I was working at a place that was ridiculously over-staffed, so after getting hooked I was able to read the next five or six books in a week, all from a quiet corner in the back storage room.

[dantesparadise]

i discovered jim based on the show but i've tried to make up for it by reading from SF to WN (which was the most recent at the time) in marathon fashion.  Got through them all before Small Favor even came out.  Then I hooked two of my friends on the books like three-eye.

[HistoryDave]

A friend of mine recomended the series to me before the TV series aired.  I watched a few episodes and enjoyed them but still did not crack open abook.  My Wife even bought me White Knight back in '08 but it sat on my shelf for three years.  I read the Codex Alera lat year and loved it.  I found the inclination to read "Ghost Story" two months ago, then overspent my book budget buying the rest of the series and devouring it over a two week period.  I am impatient for "Ghost Story" to be published, but as a Robert Jordan fan I am much pleased at how prolific Jim Butcher is as a writer.  My wife and friends know me better than I know myself.

[Griffyn612]

I didn't watch the show, but saw the advertisements.  It was already cancelled by the time I noticed the books in the book store.  And one day when I ran out of other things to read, I picked up the first book, finished it, went back got the second, and so on and so on. 

[KataniKoneko]

I had never heard of the books before my senior year in English. I had just finished a mediochre book in the middle of 'Silent Reading Time' and was hungry for something better. I picked up the second book (dang you Mr. Butcher for not numbering the OUTSIDE of the books!) and was completely confused, but entertained. Had to buy the rest of the series.

[cmprostreet]

My wife recommended the show to me after she randomly came across it while surfing.  I enjoyed the show, and my customary Googling of everything interesting to me revealed that it was also a book series.  I bought SF through DM, devoured them, then went back and got the rest.  SmF came out in paperback right when I caught up to it.  In the meantime, my wife, my brother-in-law, my brother, and some of his friends have all been hooked.  I'm on my third re-read of the series waiting for GS now, and I've been lurking on these forums since sometime in 2009.

[Cody]

None of the options above apply to me. I picked up the books years ago and watched the TV show for maybe 3 episodes before it ticked me off too much and I had to stop.  They changed way too much and I don't mind some things being changed but too much means its not part of the books anymore - its brand new.

   I still love the books though despite the TV show and can't wait for Ghost Story.

[CrabbyRat]

Watched a few eps of the TV show, had my geek friends who read the books and named their cats "Harry" and "Murphy" tell me about them for years.  I had to get my Kindle before I read them - book print is too small for bad eyes.