[UA] Earthquake Weather (OT book rant?)

[Ville Halonen]

Frank Cord Lohmann <flohmann at geomar.de> wrote:

> Earthquake weather is the weakest of all three, but still a good book,
> IMHO.
> Expiration Date is fantastic.

Expiration Date was my first, and I loved it. Then I read Last Call, and it 
was even better. Read 200 pages of Earthquake Weather, put it on the table 
and started reading L.A. Confidential, by James Ellroy.

I'm not saying it's not a good book, because I haven't read it in full, but 
the things that said "read me" were drowned by the cries of boredom and 
enticing songs of other, more interesting books. Like L.A. Confidential.

Powers' writing that could be described as full and thorough at best, is in 
EqW quite boring and dull, IMHO. It just didn't seem to be going anywhere. 
What's worse, in the two prequels one of the things that kept me hooked 
was "whattahell, what's going on, what are all these things, what's he 
on?", and since EqW is a sequel, there was nothing of that nature.

Well, maybe there is, but I just didn't get it.

Anyway, this isn't amazon.com, so sorry for the quick review.

But do read L.A. Confidential :). Right after reading The Big Nowhere.

-V
doesn't write for months and when he does, it's a book rant


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