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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
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Subject: Re: DINNER AT DEVIANT'S PALACE
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>                   DINNER AT DEVIANT'S PALACE by Tim Powers
>                              Ace, 1985, $2.95.
>                      A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper
> 
>      Powers's first book (THE ANUBIS GATES) was so remarkable that this
> novel was almost certainly doomed to suffer by comparison.  Perhaps it's
> unfair to expect the complexity that one found in THE ANUBIS GATES in
> everything Powers writes, but this does disappoint the reader somewhat in
> that regard.  This is not to say that this is a bad book--it isn't--but it
> many ways, it's an ordinary book.
> 
> 
> 					Evelyn C. Leeper
> For now, I am				...ihnp4!ahutb!ecl
> But, on May 1, I become			...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl

Interesting.  I found DADP to be superior to THE ANUBIS GATES.  Not that
his first novel was bad, but I never had the feeling that his plot was
out of control in DINNER, and I also think his characters were deeper,
and he was playing with deeper themes.  Furthermore, it just read
better--I always knew what was going on, and the tension was real
emerged from the characters and situations.  Again, I don't think
ANUBIS GATES failed at these, but to me it didn't succeed as well.

			-- SKZB