Peace Talks trailer next Tuesday - Priscilla wants your reaction

[Mira]

Hrm, the fact that it might be smaller could lend credence to the idea that it was split into two books, Peace Talks and Battlegrounds...

  If it was split into two books we'd have heard about it before now..  Possible, but don't spend any coin before it is confirmed by a trusted source,  Jim or Priscilla...

[CrusherJen]

@morriswalters: It's not unusual for a hardcover release to have a paperback ARC. I saw that more than once when I was lucky enough to work in a bookstore. 

[Regenbogen]

I just wanted to say something about the trailer: I think, the guy playing Harry is a really good match. I said to myself, yes, that's how he looked in my head.
Just wanted to say that.

[123Chikadee]

It's pretty close to how he looked in my head too.

[Bad Alias]

I think the best casting for Harry would be 1979 Tom Selleck. Every time I catch an episode of Magnum, P.I. I can't help but notice how similar the series is to how a Dresden Files series should be done and how similar the characters of Magnum and Harry are. The show was largely done from Magnum's pov and narrated by him almost in the style of a memoir. He constantly references "when I write my best selling memoir of being a private detective" and then goes into what happened or what he's thinking, often breaking the fourth wall. He's got a haunted past that keeps coming up. He's constantly broke. He lives underground. There's a lot of snark. And Selleck had the range and he's tall enough.

[Dina]

Oooh, I like this. If only Harry would use his diamonds to rent a Ferrari... (let's be honest, he won't buy one) 

[Regenbogen]

Oooh, I like this. If only Harry would use his diamonds to rent a Ferrari... (let's be honest, he won't buy one) 

No, he would buy some cheap nostalgic old car.
The diamonds he would use to build a new lab somewhere in Murphy's basement or a hut in her garden behind the house. He wouldn't buy a house. Just move in with Murphy.
The rest he would safe for Maggie.
OK, maybe buy some old revolver. But no hat. LOL

[KurtinStGeorge]

Harry could buy half a dozen classic VW beetles; pre-1970 models, so he could always have a working car on hand, even if Mike was repairing one or two others that had been knocked out, and keep two or three at Mike's as part cars.

[Regenbogen]

Harry could buy half a dozen classic VW beetles; pre-1970 models, so he could always have a working car on hand, even if Mike was repairing one or two others that had been knocked out, and keep two or three at Mike's as part cars.

LOL

[Gman]

Harry could buy half a dozen classic VW beetles; pre-1970 models, so he could always have a working car on hand, even if Mike was repairing one or two others that had been knocked out, and keep two or three at Mike's as part cars.

The problem is the VW Beetle is very small and under powered. Harry and Mouse are big. I would say an old Checker Marathon. Large, rugged, reliable and a very simple car. This would be a good solution but Harry seems to like to do things the hard way. A car that is too small and unheated showers for example.

[Regenbogen]

OMG
Have you watched the April Fool's trailer?  LOL

[KurtinStGeorge]

Here's a link for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LicFGbHAFk

[Dina]

I loved it 

[g33k]

The problem is the VW Beetle is very small and under powered. Harry and Mouse are big. I would say an old Checker Marathon. Large, rugged, reliable and a very simple car..

The VW is a much simpler car.  Air-cooled motor is a HUGE simplification, for example.  Motor over rear axle = simpler transmission.  etc etc etc.

Simple "reliability" isn't all of it.

We can make reliable stuff that's still complex... and it's that complexity that Harry hex'es!

(Also, I have a WAG that the Murphyonic Field is much stronger in the general direction the wizard is looking... so the motor &c behind Harry could make a big difference, too.)

[Mira]

I loved it 

Yeah, but I was looking for a lamp shade..   Especially when Eb was asking Harry if he was dumb enough to pull off what ever it was, it would have been great if he had a lamp shade on his head..