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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Tim Powers.
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 17:42:23 +1200
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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.
>>
> 
> 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.
> 
> For me the best of his novels over the past decade or so are "Hide me
> among the graves" and "Medusa's Web".
> 
> Powers definitely did have an early tendency to mangle his protagonists.
> 
> 
> 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.