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If you want to start with the works of Tim Powers, don't start here. This is volume 3 of an extended story. Start with either On Stranger Tides, The Stress Of Her Regard, or Declare. 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.

But be warned. 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. Really 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. 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. But it's weird.

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.


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Earthquake Weather Tor Fantasy Tim Powers 9780812555196 Books Reviews

Vintage Tim Powers, not his best, not his worst. Just plain good.
To cite just one problem The dialog sometimes involves 6 or 7 people at the same time. Coupled with the often obscurely allusive text, the result is prose so constipated it simply doesn't reward patience the payoff --what little there is-- simply isn't worth waiting for. Powers' earlier works are well worth the effort, but this mess --along with other, equally disappointing later efforts-- tells us his his good work is behind him.
Mr Powers is a good friend to his readers and makes some novel processes to have his readers run through. loops and loops. I hope he has a long life on a very selfish level so he can write more and more.
This book requires that one's read Powers previous two (Last Call and Expiration Date). A lot of it makes very little sense without that. So I would not recommend this novel to new Powers readers. This book isn't quite up to the hight standard set buy 'Last Call'. It's a terrific novel if you view it on it's own merit, but measured against Last Call, it's a bit weaker. The beginning is slow and seems a bit unfocussed, but about halfway through, all of the seemingly irrelevant characters and sub plots come together. The ending a terrific - much better than that of Expiration Date. Overall, a terrific read and one that won't be overly dissapointing to most Powers fans.
Third in the Faultlines series. The first is wonderful (Last Call); the second is a different story line entirely; and the third tries to resolve the previous two. Not the best, but if you are, like me, a diehard Powers fan, you will want to read it.
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.
Unfortunately, Tim Powers' "Earthquake Weather" (the third, and final, book in his "Fault Lines" series) is bad enough that I could no longer force myself to read it after the 34% point. 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. Since "Last Call" is pretty good and "Expiration Date" is OK, just read those and stop. 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). Ugh. 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 their behaviors swing wildly from knowledgeable, rational actors to idiotic lunatics. And, finally, the two previous books used two different mythologies for their "magic." In "Earthquake Weather," he combines the existence of those two mythologies. 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.

The novels in Tim Powers' "Fault Lines" series are

1. Last Call
2. Expiration Date (The Fault Lines Trilogy Book 2)
3. Earthquake Weather (The Fault Lines Trilogy Book 3)
If you want to start with the works of Tim Powers, don't start here. This is volume 3 of an extended story. Start with either On Stranger Tides, The Stress Of Her Regard, or Declare. 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.

But be warned. 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. Really 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. 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. But it's weird.

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.