OK... Worth a Read... But Powers Has Much Better to Offer

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	• The Drawing of the Dark (Del Rey Impact) Tim Powers Del Rey, 1999 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fast fun fantasy

If you like your fantasy to be fun and fast moving then this is the book for you.

Powers has always had an almost frantic imagination. In some books he reigns it in tight and focuses it on single ideas, but in others he lets it all out and throws everything in the melting pot.

So here we get the seige of Vienna, The Fisher King, Merlin, King Arthur, Sigurd, drunken Vikings, and, best of all, it is all tied together through an ancient brewery, where the beer is quite literally "The Food of the Goods."

It moves quickly, but is let down slightly by a rushed ending.

Not Power's best written book, but still great fun.

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OK... Worth a Read... But Powers Has Much Better to Offer

The above says it all. The characters were quite intriguing, and you do get a good sense of the historical picture. The story was good, but not first-rate. Way too much graphic violence (for my taste), and a lot of it just didn't seem necessary except that it held to the story line and history of that time period. I am a huge Tim Powers fan and so far this is my least favorite. Read "The Anubis Gates" and "The Stress of Her Regard" instead.

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Beer, Vikings, and Vienna.

Although a fan of Powers for many years, this was the first chance that I have had to read one of the pre-The Anubis Gates novels.

Setting the stage for his long career writing secret histories, The Drawing of the Dark tells the real story behind the siege of Vienna. It does so through the eyes of Brian Duffy-- mercenary, drunk, and one-time lover of Epiphany. When he accepts the job of bouncer at the Zimmermann Inn, home of Herzwesten beer, he has no idea that in doing so he is peeling back the face of the universe that he thought he understood.

Powers keeps ideas that could be seen as cliche fresh through his use of humor, character, and historical detail. There is never a retread feel in one of his books. Last Call is still my favorite of his work, but The Drawing of the Dark is a worthy addition to the rest.

Recommended for people who enjoy steampunk, alternative history, and who are generally fans of Tim Powers.

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Beer, swashbuckling, mythology, and fun!

Wild, raucous, and fun. Simple as that. OK, maybe not;) Tim Powers delivers truly fantastical fiction without being trite, hackneyed, or derivative. And this certainly isn't a run of the mill retelling of early European mythology. How many authors even know about Ragnarok (Norse version of the apocalypse)? How many could use it as a mere subplot? How many could pack all this and keep things lively and fun? This and the Anubis Gates are my favorites, and have been reread a few times. Definitely worth the time!

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What does the famous Herzwesten beer have to do with saving the entire western world from the invading Turkish armies? Brian Duffy, aging soldier of fortune, is the only man who can rescue the world from evil--if only he can figure out why the beer was so important to a mysterious old man called the Fisher King, and why his dreams are plagued with images of a sword and an arm rising from a lake . . .

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