Earthquake Weather (Fault Lines Book 3)

His body is taken to the magically protected home of the Sullivans, and their year-old adopted son, Koot, a boy destined to be the next Fisher King. But for now, he must aid in reuniting Scott Crane's body and spirit, and restoring him to life. Additional Details Series Volume Number. Other writers tell tales of magic in the 20th century, but nobody does it like Powers. Expiration Date by Tim Powers , Paperback. Homebody by Joanna Gaines , Hardcover 2.

• Wasting Away ~ A Zombie Novel (Waiting to Die Book 2).
• .
• Parental Alienation Syndrome Checklist for Children: 10 Warning Signs and Characteristics?
• Customers who viewed this item also viewed.
• Follow the Author.

Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones Set: Martin Paperback, A Novel by John Grisham , Hardcover The Crimes of Grindelwald by J. Rowling , Hardcover 6. Elevation by Stephen King , Hardcover Rowling , Hardcover ,54 RUB. Elevation by Stephen King: Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now.

• Earthquake Weather.
• Fault Lines: Earthquake Weather 3 by Tim Powers (, Paperback) | eBay.
• Earthquake Weather (Fault Lines, #3) by Tim Powers?
• Religions of the World: The History of Buddhism!
• Fault Lines: Earthquake Weather 3 by Tim Powers (2007, Paperback).
• Earthquake Weather (Fault Lines): Tim Powers: www.newyorkethnicfood.com: Books?
• The Works of Tim Powers » Earthquake Weather;

Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. If you want to start with the works of Tim Powers, don't start here. This is volume 3 of an extended story. If, at the end, you decide you liked what you read and were glad you pushed through his sometimes difficult openings as I was, on all three , then tackle Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather. Powers creates some really weird worlds into which you get sucked.

He has a terrific capacity to capture the feeling of an alien reality permeating our own, and by the end of many of his books you will be thoroughly weirded-out. But in this case the weirdness intensifies over all three books.

This book is weird. If you haven't read the first two, you don't have a prayer even to Dionysus of even following what's going on. But if you have, this is a heavy slog. I'm not sorry I read it, but I did read the other two, and not so long ago that I've forgotten them.

Покупки по категориям

But this one was hard to read. I kept looking at it and thinking, this is just too weird. But not quite, not quite enough for me to give up. So my advice is, come at Tim Powers from an oblique angle. If you like the other stuff, then tackle the Fault Lines trilogy. You won't be sorry you finished it, but this volume 3 will have been more work than many another book you could name. Yet still worth the effort.

Because no one can suck you into weirdness like Tim Powers. There's nothing special about that point in the book. It's just the place where I finally admitted to myself that I was avoiding picking it up any more. This is the first of Powers' books where that's happened. It's a shame that it's happening in the final book of a series, but it's not much of a series. The first two books are entirely stand-alone and independent of each other. They only form part of a series because Powers decided to fold the characters and mythologies together for this book.

This book isn't necessary for either of those books. However, if you do decide to read "Earthquake Weather," be aware that you'll need to have read those other two books first. Otherwise, nothing here will make any sense. So, why do I think the book's worth only a Not Very Good 2 stars out of 5? Primarily because of how nasty it is. Neither of the earlier books was exactly a bed of roses, but this one just goes too far.

Not only does Powers dwell far too much on the horrible things some of the characters are doing, many of the characters, themselves, are bad people. And these are some of the people whose heads he's got us inside the actual protagonists, to boot. A close second to the nastiness, is the fact that the characters are inconsistent. Not only do they not act as they should from the previous books, they don't act consistently from moment to moment: And, finally, the two previous books used two different mythologies for their "magic.

The problem with that is that the combined mythos just becomes unwieldy. Not only that, but by the end of "Expiration Date," Powers was extending the "ghost" mythos to fairly silly levels. He's continued that here. So, if the book is so bad that I couldn't finish it, why am I rating it at 2 stars instead of 1? Because I've read worse far worse. Powers is still a good author. His knowledge of the material, his descriptive abilities, his prose, itself, are all still good.

It's "just" the nastiness, the characters, and their actions I don't like here [g]. So, I'm upping my rating by one star.

1. The Heart Of The Matter?
2. Histoire des idées sociologiques : Des origines à Weber (Cursus) (French Edition)?
3. ?
4. Little Better than a Beast (Marla Mason).
5. Search Engine Optimization - SEO for Newbies (Pathways Step by Step Guides to a Successful Online Business Book 4).
6. Get A Copy.

The novels in Tim Powers' "Fault Lines" series are: Mass Market Paperback Verified Purchase. Powers has really hit his stride. Last Call was brilliantly engrossing, and Expiration Date perhaps a bit of a letdown to many not to me , but Earthquake Weather fulfills all the promise of the first two books and then some. BTW, don't try to read this without reading the first two. Powers is unmatched in creating a "real" world where fantastic things happen, and they happen a lot in this book.

Sit back and enjoy the author's mastery of the off-kilter. When I finished it, I was moved to go back and reread the first two volumes all over again Powers, like Jonathan Lethem, is comfortably inhabiting the house Philip K. Dick built, and each is adding new wings. I eagerly await his next offerings. Third in the Faultlines series.