For a one-man polka band and a Tyrannosaur, I might have to read further, after all.
Honestly, you could probably pick up Dead Beat and be fine. I didn't know if this was the sort of series that would need familiarity with all earlier books in order to make sense, but with the exception of some backstory from Death Masks (both Butters and the fallen angel who's taken up residence in Harry's head), at least in this case the answer really turned out to be no.
Do you think the Latin is ungrammatical because it's meant to sound like bad Neo-Latin being used by ceremonial magicians, or do you think it's ungrammatical because it's being written by somebody with less-than-stellar Latin skills?
I would have given him the benefit of the former except that the German is terrible—Der Lied der Erlking? I don't even like Goethe all that much and I'm hoping he hunts Butcher down for that one—which makes me question his language(-checking) skills as a whole. "Flickum bicus" as a firelighting spell is clearly a joke, but when you refer to someone trying to kill you in cruor gelidus, that just hurts.
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Honestly, you could probably pick up Dead Beat and be fine. I didn't know if this was the sort of series that would need familiarity with all earlier books in order to make sense, but with the exception of some backstory from Death Masks (both Butters and the fallen angel who's taken up residence in Harry's head), at least in this case the answer really turned out to be no.
Do you think the Latin is ungrammatical because it's meant to sound like bad Neo-Latin being used by ceremonial magicians, or do you think it's ungrammatical because it's being written by somebody with less-than-stellar Latin skills?
I would have given him the benefit of the former except that the German is terrible—Der Lied der Erlking? I don't even like Goethe all that much and I'm hoping he hunts Butcher down for that one—which makes me question his language(-checking) skills as a whole. "Flickum bicus" as a firelighting spell is clearly a joke, but when you refer to someone trying to kill you in cruor gelidus, that just hurts.