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Opening up the discussion for this book. I'm reading mixed reviews on this and it's expensive, so I'm not rushing to read it, but I'm willing to be convinced.

I don't remember a bit of it from reading it when it was a new SF Book Club release, whenever that was... So, I'm sure I didn't think as much of it as some reviewers, but I kept it, so it must have had some redeeming features :-) I'll get started on it soon... (that is, as soon as I get through the other May pick: Blindsight

I started this book yesterday and I like the story, even if some things remember me other books, in some case most recent. The story has some similarity with "Timeline" by Michael Crichton and Doyle, make me think to the character of Robert Langdon (The Da Vinci Code).
In the whole, it's an interesting story and I'm looking forward to see next chapters.

This sounds pretty interesting, and i really get into things with Egyptian mythology or history, but this is the main reason i got into reading eBooks, this book is just to expensive for me to get right now. If i can't buy comics, then i don't want to drop 10-12 bucks on a book i'm not sure is gonna keep my interest, that 10-12 could have gotten me more comics that i know i will want to read again and again, i'll wait for more reviews or maybe find a used copy somewhere for real cheap.

Hmm I have a paperback of this in the boxes somewhere, must dig it out.

Andrew wrote: " The story has some similarity with "Timeline" by Michael Crichton and Doyle, make me think to the character of Robert Langdon (The Da Vinci Code)."

Which makes one think that it borrowed from them—when in fact it precedes both stories by much more than a decade.

I just finished reading this. It is a strange mix of stuff, part time travel part magical-wizard-horror. The story was a very intriguing idea, and the first half read pretty well, but second half seemed to get mired in wild descriptions which distracted from the story and characters more than adding. Not sure why it needed all the descriptions of mutilation and weirdness.

Unlike some reviews I read, I liked the jumping between points of view of different characters. Even though it was at times confusing, that may help the reader identify with the state of mind of the characters, which had to be pretty crazy.

Some of the sidebar plots I never quite figured out what their purpose was. They should have been either more developed or reduced to a small paragraph.

As a side, I was reading the paperback, and it appeared to either have some bad editing where the wrong word was used, or the sentence structure was really weird and seemed like fragments instead of full sentences. This was somewhat distracting, as I had to re-read sentences several times to get the flow of them.

I am considering reading Declare since it has good reviews. But probably not right away. Not sure I am a Tim Powers fan.