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The Bible Repairman And Other Stories (2011)

by Tim Powers(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1616960477 (ISBN13: 9781616960476)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tachyon Publications

review 1: I'm not drawn to short story collections, though i usually enjoy the ones i do read,. And this is Tim Powers, whose novels i read all of at least once. The tales in here are short and fun. The Trelawny one was the weakest for me, though it does make me want to go back and revisit "The Stress Of Her Regard". Solid bit of Powers to tide you over. I liked the ghost tales the best, especially Soul in a bottle.
review 2: I really wanted to give this collection 3.5 stars. The ideas in this book are wonderful and the writing is ambitious, literary in quality. Yet somehow the stories themselves rarely “gel.” To give one example: there’s a story based on the idea that an overthrown angel rips through the fabric of space and time as he falls. Then it adds a time co... morep agency, a couple of innocent bystanders, and a Lovecraftian sense of creeping doom. (It could almost be a pun: “the angles are wrong,” and so is the angel…) This is all totally awesome, and Tim Powers is a fine stylist, so the result should be a slam-dunk short story. And yet the end I was left going, “Huh, so I guess that was…Lucifer? Hunh.”Basically, these are stories that execute triple Salchows and then don’t stick the landing. I liked them all, and I "really" liked many of them, at points. Four stars for ambition, but only three for execution. less

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