"When I finally got tired of arguing with [my writing teacher] and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files." -- Jim Butcher
Well that sure does explain some shit. The series sarts getting good around book 5-6 as it begins developing beyond the formula.
@starkatt Yyyyeah, the first few are really very definitely written to a pretty obvious formula. Pretty glad he learned how not to do that after a while.