[UA] Earthquake Weather (OT book rant?)

[Gareth Hanrahan]

> > 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.

I'm weird. I found Earthquake Weather to be on a par with anything else
Powers has written - but Last Call seemed very thin. Admittedly, I read them
in the wrong order, but I found EW's development of the ideas to be way
better than Last Call's....

Gar


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