[Dragaera] Tim Powers books

Jerry Friedman jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 1 13:56:17 PST 2010


I couldn't call myself a Tim Powers fan, but I liked /Last
Call/ much better than /On Stranger Tides/.

--- On Mon, 2/1/10, Miguel Aja <fistoftyr at gmail.com> wrote:

The one he's still got, or the one he left with Fenris?
Not that it's my business.  And maybe I should have
waited till tomorrow. :-)

Jerry Friedman

> Changed the title to make it aligned
> with the discussion.
> 
> 
> Try 'On Strange Tides'. It has a similar vibe to 'Anubis'
> and I have yet to
> meet a Powers fan that did not list it among his favourite.
> The rest of my
> favourites would be 'Last Call' (but not the following
> ones), 'Declare' and
> 'The Stress of Her Regard'.
> 
> Then again I have liked them all but 'Drawing of the Dark',
> including
> Deviant's Palace, so maybe my criterion does not suit you
> that much :)
> 
> 2010/2/1 Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net>
> 
> > On 2/1/2010 8:49 AM, Miguel Aja wrote:
> >
> >> Early Tim Powers novels had an obligatory messy
> hand injury scene: see
> >> >  especially_The Anubis Gates_,_Dinner at
> Deviant's Palace_, and
> >> >  _The Drawing of the Dark_.
> >>
> >
> > I bought */Dinner at Deviant's Palace/* because I
> loved its title - even
> > though I want to put "the" in it.    But I
> didn't really enjoy reading it
> > that much.    I enjoyed */The Anubis Gates/*
> after buying it when Powers was
> > at a local convention.   So now I am
> open to getting a third book of his.
> >
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