The Thing:
Mix one part hard boiled detective, one part powerful wizard, and two parts sarcastic wise ass and you get Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, the only professional wizard in Chicago. The Dresden Files follows his adventures trying to clean up the nastier supernatural bits of the underbelly of the Windy City.
Why it is worth your time:
Yes, that is the protagonist riding a reanimated t-rex.
Yes, shit like that does happen ALL THE TIME.
This book series is outstanding for a number of reasons, but the easiest selling point is all the awesome shit people in it do. Seriously, I could ramble about character development and plot pacing and all kinds of other shit and you would ignore it and focus on the fact that Harry's mentor pull a satellite out of orbit to destroy a vampire's castle. 
Why people will tell you it's not:
Well, there was this show...
Mediocre is a good word for it.
It wasn't bad as far as SciFi channel shows go, but it had about nothing to do with the source material and was generally sub-par.
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