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I did get what you meant. 
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WOW! FREAKING WOW!
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So I arrived yesterday in Detroit for my first time in the USA ( actually first time in the continent).
I am going "Wow, this is big" for about everything for the moment (roads, cars, hotel rooms, ...)- stereotypes, here we go -, but I think I will slowly get used to it.
Something worth seeing in Detroit or in the area that I should not miss ? I'll be staying until end of next week, so the oncoming weekend will be dedicated to visiting. I was thinking driving over to Chicago (maybe seeing O'Hare in real life, after hundreds of flight simulator hours trying to land on it when I was little  ) to get the big-city-with-tall-towers-kind-of-feeling.
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I envy you a lot. I wish I could visit Chicago, at least I'd visit the city whew my favourite fantasy saga is set into (the saga is "Dresden Files" for the curious).
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den2k88 wrote: Chicago... ...fantasy saga is set
Forgetti the Barbarian? The Lord of the Lakes?
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The Dresden Files was a good series of books, and a good (but unrelated) TV series. If they had stayed closer to the books they might even have got a second series, and then it could have got interesting! Pity really.
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You forget the awful casting  BTW The Dresden Files is a good series, it's ongoing and I'm craving for Jim Butcher to finish the next one
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I'm still waiting for "Peace Talks", never mind "Mirror, Mirror" ... 
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BTW: If you liked Dresden, have a look at the "Supernatural Investigation Series" by Justin Gustainis[^] - it's not bad!
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Thank you.
It's a while I'm looking for something similar... and being given an advice like this from a person who I esteem a lot promises really well.
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: (the saga is "Dresden Files" for the curious)
Wasn't it cancelled in Chapter 8 or so? I liked it as well, but never saw anything else...
M.D.V. 
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There are fifteen books: dresden files books - Google Search[^] - which were the "basis" for the TV series. And while I enjoyed the TV, the books were a whole load better!
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OriginalGriff wrote: the books were a whole load better!
as 99.99% of the cases
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Actually Butcher is writing the 16th, he has plans for 19-20 short novels like the one he's writing now and an ending apocalyptic trilogy for which the titles will be "Stars and Stones", "Hell's Bells" and "Empty Night" [JB said "they are called curses for a reason"].
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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good to know... I will have a look
Thanks for the info
M.D.V.
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You're welcome - here in Italy there is no edition of The Dresden Files. I discovered it through tvtropes, downloaded them in "ebook" and then ordered the whole bunch from Amazon to my great impoverishment.
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Just finished the first book. Love his style. Looking forward to the sequels
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I hear the water in Detroit is very good.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Rage wrote: in Detroit for my first time in the USA
Detroit is a dump. It is a failing city. Although, I do understand that someone is putting money into revitalizing the downtown area finally so some of it is getting better. But it is possibly the worst big city in the US. Chicago is not much better, as I understand it. Lots of poverty and crime and rundown areas.
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Chicago has nice areas too which puts it one huge step on Detroit.
The best thing they could do to fix the latter would be line up 10,000 D9 dozers blade to blade about 30 miles to the west of the lake shore and just plow the entire wreck into the water.
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RyanDev wrote: Chicago is not much better, as I understand it.
The south/west neighborhoods of Chicago are frequently war zones. But the downtown, north side and lake front areas are gems.
RyanDev wrote: Lots of poverty and crime and rundown areas.
No more so than any other big US city. The crime on the south/west sides is decidedly more violent than most (despite the very restrictive Chicago guns laws ) but the conditions are no different than the ghettos of most cities.
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I loved Chicago when I was in the US of A.
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US car companies and good food. That's about it.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: US car companies
Now you know why I am here.
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