# The Dresden Files: Ghost Story **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-ghost-story/589836 "2011-07-21T11:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-ghost-story/589836/81 "2011-10-16T20:05:17Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > There’s more of a difference between the King James Bible and the New American Bible than flowery language. Even before the NAB, Catholics were not using the KJV of the bible. I still think it was just a minor error on Butcher’s part. My wife, a Catholic, always buys the KJV version. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-ghost-story/589836/82 "2011-10-17T00:20:38Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Anyways, going to ask one more time here. > > It seems that the last couple books we’ve really gotten “you can do magic even if you’re not born with the talent” over the last couple books. > > Am I the only one that thinks that Butters is going to end up a wizard eventually? > > -Joe Not a wizard, but a sort of hedge witch is probable. Not all of them have limited skill, either. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-ghost-story/589836/83 "2011-10-17T12:56:01Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Not a wizard, but a sort of hedge witch is probable. Not all of them have limited skill, either. Yeah, I’m thinking more along the lines of someone who has got an extremely scientific brain being tuned to magic. Maybe some sort of techno-wizardry? When he had his Bob-flashlight I’m wondering if he had done anything special there. …and I don’t remember, who made the ghost radio? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Kylede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kylede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kylede)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-ghost-story/589836/84 "2011-10-17T17:14:49Z")
Seriously people…have any of you ever heard of Joseph Campbell??? The Hero’s Journey? Monomyth?? Here is the link…If you want I can lay out each step before the most current, to specific scenes in other books. Read a little about it and then realize that it is only gonna get better from here on in. You have to realize that Harry finally belives in “free will is the path to happiness” now. Lets see him use it to make the world a better place ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-ghost-story/589836/85 "2011-10-17T17:56:42Z")
> [@Kylede](#): > > Seriously people…have any of you ever heard of Joseph Campbell??? The Hero’s Journey? Monomyth?? > > Here is the link…If you want I can lay out each step before the most current, to specific scenes in other books. > > Read a little about it and then realize that it is only gonna get better from here on in. You have to realize that Harry finally belives in “free will is the path to happiness” now. Lets see him use it to make the world a better place [The Missing Link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth). I think that every one of the novels is a Hero’s Journey in its own right, with each one being another step in the Hero’s Journey that is the entire Dresden Files series. Campbell points out that humanity really only has about 7 archetypical stories and that all stories told are based on at least one of those archetypes. The Hero’s Journey is probably the most popular because everyone can project themselves into the role of the hero and say, “Yeah, I can do that”. There’s a reason that one of the [oldest recorded stories](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh)in mankind’s history is a Hero’s Journey. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-ghost-story/589836/86 "2011-12-23T02:43:18Z")
I just finished it and mostly enjoyed it,though I confess to skimming through the battle sequences. Early on I did imagine that… …we were meeting a new character who would turn out to be Harry’s previously-unknown son ?..but that seemed to fizzle out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-ghost-story/589836.md?page=4)