Re: Tim Powers.

William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Titus G wrote:

On 4/07/24 11:33, William Hyde wrote:

Titus G wrote:

I think I have had enough of Tim Powers after reading The Anubis Gates.
It began brilliantly and until we ended up in the 17th century, I still
thought it would continue in a similar way but there was far too much
nonsensical physical and magical violence that was gratuitous and
fortuitous being unnecessary for plot nor character attributes.
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I can never get enough of Powers ("Earthquake Weather", excepted) though
his more recent work seems a bit toned down, or perhaps that's just me.
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For me the best of his novels over the past decade or so are "Hide me
among the graves" and "Medusa's Web".
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Powers definitely did have an early tendency to mangle his protagonists.
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William Hyde

 
I had been puzzled and fascinated by Last Call enough to get Expiration
Date, (older than a decade), but have never opened it.
 

For what it is worth I found Expiration date to be an easier read than
Last Call, and just as good. Or almost.  Why I didn't like the third
book I just don't know.
 
William Hyde

I like all of Powers, but maybe it's hard avoiding "nonsensical physical and
magical violence". I like _Dinner at Deviant's Palace_, which ISTR others
find weaker - a post-apocalpytic LA where our hero is riding into town
on his horse-drawn Chevy (but it's just the body on a wooden wagon with
bead curtains instead of doors ;)).

Cheers, David Duffy.