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I loved Tim Powers� LAST CALL. I quickly jumped to this one, which I’ve had knocking around a while, but found the reading a much different experience. I finally walked the book to back of the barn and put it down a little more than half way through. Just couldn’t do it anymore. I don’t need likeable characters or commerciality. But I like to have a sense of momentum in a story and I don’t like to be so consistently ahead of the main characters. Like where you have to keep reading and waiting for them to catch on. Sometimes that happens because you simply figured it out first. Here it was like Tim Powers wanted to make his character look dumb because he kept informing the reader before the character. And I had a sense we were still not even on the road to the Anubis Gate or Egypt or wherever the plot goes. So with that, along with the utter joyless experience (really, what happens to this character and his lack of aptitude for taking care of himself is truly depressing), I set this sucker aside.

So now I’m wondering if Tim Powers is a guy I want to know better or not. I still want more of what I felt reading LAST CALL.