Collect On Stranger Tides Sketched By Tim Powers Issued As Textbook

tried to concentrate on what was happening, but I couldn't delve into the details that this book offered.
My unfortunate reading experience reflects the score of this flawed book, The prologue and epilogue are the most well written and most climactic parts, respectively, There's something wrong with the author's style, as far as I'm concerned, It's like an ill tuned radio, Nothing really comes out of the pages and grabs you, One of those books I would have indeed once did abandoned reading,

It's a well written book though, and it must have fans that swear by it.
The same book that enchants others made me despair, I wish I could get any inkling what I'm missing, But despite the fact that I read every single word of this doomed book, I'll never know.
Now, to the next book! This is one of Tim's older novels, but it's a doozy, I love the characters, the action, the whole magic, the use of nautical history, . . I love sailing ships, so this was a special treat,

The underlying human story is about how John Chandagnac goes from proper, uninvolved and rather shallow gentleman to Jack Shandy, a pirate with the emotional depths of the seas he sails.
This is a perfect storm of a book in many ways, I mean, it's got a virtuous yet flawed hero who cooks!, towering evil for him to fight, ambiguous good guy/bad guys, magic, pirates with magic, naval battles with magic, cool voodoo mages, walking undead, spirits, the Fountain of Youth, a damsel in distress, implacable foes with magic and, of course, true love.
Which, as we all know, is the greatest thing in the worldexcept for a nice mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich.


I was reading this book, see, a goodreads. com/review/list marveling at how well Tim puts you in the world with his physical descriptions and thinking "Somebody's got to make this into a movie" when I find out that someone wants to make this into a movie.
That someone being the crew from Pirates of the Caribbean,

Well, yeah, it won't be like this great book, but with Tim Powers' story at the center, it could still be a good movie.


This pulpy and wildly implausible, in a retro, Men's Adventure sort of way, It has pirates, Blackbeard though they don't call him Blackbeard most of the time, damsels in distress, voodoo and zombies.


Oh, and a main character who's magically good at everything he does, Despite never handling a sword, he's able to teach a swordsman new tricks within minutes of picking one up.
Despite never firing a gun, he's able to give the pirates lessons on accuracy within an hour.
Despite never cooking for a crowd, he becomes a gourmet chef within days, Despite never working on a ship, he's able to take command of one within a couple of weeks and is actually listened to by the crew.
Despite never having studied voodoo, he's able to duke it out with the masters within a couple of months.
And why is

he so good at everything He's a puppeteer!

Sigh,

All its flaws just stood out to me more and more as the book progressed, and what was eyeroll worthy but tolerable near the start of the book was less and less appealing as the book went on.
By the end, even the narration that I started off thinking was good became like nails on chalk boards.


I enjoyed Powers' Last Call very much, so I've been picking up his books as I've found them on sale for a couple of years now but this one was such a flop for me that now I'm dreading trying to read my way through the rest of the backlog.

THE SHANDY METHOD