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Three Days to Never

Tim Powers

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May 25, 2008 Kimberly rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I always find Tim Powers's books brilliant, but I'll confess that I like best the ones concerning time periods or subjects that interest me most. For this reason, his Declare, which immediately preceded Three Days. . .and dealt with Cold War espionage (as well as more arcane matters), interested me less than, for example, The Stress of Her Regard, about the Romantic poets and their muse, not because it was necessarily a worse book. Three Days to Never lacks the mythic resonance of Stress. . ., a ...more

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Jun 25, 2009 Karen rated it it was ok

Shelves: science-fiction, time-travel, read-2009

I finished it to make sure that Charlotte, Frank, and Daphne came out okay, but overall it was freaking confusing. I'm not sure what the movie had to do with anything (Chaplin seemed only tangentially related in the end, and Matt didn't signify at all), I couldn't keep the characters straight, new bad guy characters showed up in the last 100 or so pages... Where did Canino come from?

I wouldn't be surprised if the interconnectedness of it all was more profound than I could absorb. By three-fourt ...more

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