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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. If you like Powers, you should like this. Fast paced, lots of hints to follow, and all that. Love the one stoical character who sees his life ending bit by bit, but soldiers on. I get impatient with Powers' stuff. Its wheels within wheels within wheels. Reminds me of reading John Le Carré's Smiley novels, where you think you understand who did what, and then it turns out that he's a double agent, and that evidence was faked, and oh... it's just too much work. (  ) mulliner | Sep 20, 2009 |  dilandau | Jun 16, 2009 | Tim Powers is one of my favorite authors, but this is not one of my favorite of his books. There are a few clever aspects -- he always starts his books well, and the woman who can only see out of other peoples' eyes is a great idea. But the plot gets bogged down by a too-intricate and unpredictable supernatural plot, and he has too many characters and so can't focus enough on the core (as usual, mostly family) relationships. The climactic scene is written as if Powers was trying to get all the information from a complex 5-D map and schematic into text, and it just doesn't work. My suggestion is to re-read Declare instead. (  ) Harlan879 | Mar 12, 2009 | The book starts slow, but picks up in pace as it continues and plot-lines connect.Reminds one of Last Call (Mystic screening, etc.) and The Anubis Gates (Literature and time travel).Unlike his other books, where what we face we understand, and as time goes on we get revealed more and understand more, here we get revealed more from the get-go, but only understand it later.I think it was not the right book to translate, it came out in 2006 and was translated to Hebrew in 2008, but it was translated because he thanks people from the Israeli book scene and researched stuff during his visit here in 2005.Two things don't make sense, why did grandma have a gold swastika at the place she reached, and how did it get there?And why did Oren get a phantom-baby when he traveled back, shouldn't it only appear when he slingshots back to the present? (  ) tundranocaps | Feb 3, 2009 | A sci-fi-ish novel I'd have never picked up without reading a positive review, but what a reward! A father and daughter become enmeshed in a government plot, and the father not only sees the future, but has to make an incredibly difficult moral choice. I'll definitely be reading Tim Powers again. (  ) agirlandherbooks | Aug 25, 2008 | 
 The place is Greater Los Angeles, a neighborhood today, San Bernardino, Pasadena, Hollywood, Palm Springs. People arrive, or their predecessors did, so there are reflections, or repercussions, of Germany — Switzerland — Israel — and a ranging universe so vast and strange the characters think of it as a freeway to their local lives, or God. The time is 1987: three days of it: hence the title — with a look at 1967 — the days of Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein — Pope Innocent III — Moses — and a man from 2006 who can’t stand the crude technology. The actors are a preteen girl and her father who teaches literature — and her great-grandmother — and her uncle — and two teams trying to undo place, time, and action, one from the Israeli intelligence service, one vast and strange. The focus of these forces keeps this story strong. Powers has set us at their nexus, holds us there. The careful painting of their operation, almost prosaic in the midst of poetry, almost mundane in the midst of the mystic, keeps this world weird. He makes it shock and shimmer. Its spine is his imagination. Its sinew is his understanding. He is unafraid of good or evil, of comedy or crime.
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When Albert Einstein told Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 that the atomic bomb was possible, he did not tell the president about another discovery he had made, something so extreme and horrific it remained a secret . . . until now. This extraordinary new novel from one of the most brilliant talents in contemporary fiction is a standout literary thriller in which one man stumbles upon the discovery Einstein himself tried to keep hidden.
When twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wee's Big Adventure from her grandmother's house, neither she nor her college-professor father, Frank Marrity, has any idea that the theft has drawn the attention of both the Israeli Secret Service and an ancient European cabal of occultists—or that within hours they'll be visited by her long-lost grandfather, who is also desperate to get that tape.
And when Daphne's teddy bear is stolen, a blind assassin nearly kills Frank, and a phantom begins to speak to her from a switched-off television set, Daphne and her father find themselves caught in the middle of a murderous power struggle that originated long ago in Israel and Germany but now crashes through Los Angeles and out to the Mojave Desert. To survive, they must quickly learn the rules of a dangerous magical chess game and use all their cleverness and courage—as well as their love and loyalty to each other—to escape a fate more profound than death.
A pulse-pounding epic adventure that blurs the lines between espionage and the supernatural; good and evil; past, present and future, Three Days to Never is an exhilarating masterwork of speculative suspense from the always remarkable imagination of the incomparable Tim Powers.
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