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    <body><![CDATA[I’m really torn about whether to give “Declare” 4 stars or 5.  I enjoyed the story and I think Powers had some really great, innovative ideas and crafted them into a unique narrative that defies classification into traditional genres.  It’s fantasy, but not fantasy as you normally think of i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20017440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love what Powers is attempting here - a spy story cum secret history of the cold war where magic, ancient djinns, guardian angels and biblical myth are really the secret drivers of the arms race (<em>very</em> Indiana Jones) - but for me this was a case of the plot of a novel being far more interestin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20300598">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this novel blew my socks off.  i had to pick them up and put them back on for real.  SHOOM - right off.  anyway, i love tim powers.  he does this thing a lot of the time, where he takes an historical event, studies all of the scholarship on it, and then fills in the missing gaps with concocted fanta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46434854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At face value: <br/>A damn good Romance that takes Lovecraftian terror and madness and mashes it up with mid-20th century SIS/MI5 Espionage Noir in events leading up to WWII in Europe and the Middle East up to the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis and an epilogue that accounts for the events leadi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73430996">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67643936">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding&quot; - Job 38:4<br/><br/>In &quot;Declare&quot;, Tim Powers once again looks through the cracks in history and turns to espionage. Andrew Hale is a spy, and after serving in the British secret serv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67643936">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ca n'est pas le premier roman de cet auteur que je lis, et c'est toujours une expérience assez indescriptible. Mais essayons quand même de la décrire.<br/>Ce roman nous raconte une bonne partie de la vie d'Andrew Hale, un espion imaginaire du milieu du siècle dernier(1). Bon, le terme espion n'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61365655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49027926">
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    <body><![CDATA[Odd, like all Powers' books.  A spy story, with genies (djinn).  As a concept, that didn't work very well for me, not nearly as well as his Romantic poets with vampires, or the gangsters, poker and fisher king cross.<br/><br/>While I was reading I had that song The Freshmen, by Verve something, ru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49027926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a longstanding favorite of mine, the first Tim Powers book that I read on it's first release and one that I reread fairly regularly for the pleasure of watching the baroque plot, which takes place entirely in the interstices of history, work itself elegantly out in two twining strands s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49058870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm finally more than halfway through this book, and I really can't help reluctantly coming to the conclusion that it's way too long.<br/><br/>Powers has some great ideas here, and he's deploying them with much more fluidity -- and, often, subtlety -- and many fewer snags than he did in his earlie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37446505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like a lot how Powers meshes fantastical aspects into historical facts, usually with a very good historical basis. In this book the historical background is the cloak and dagger war between the secret services during and after the Second World War, and a hidden war that started much earlier.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21151635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5312591">
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    <body><![CDATA['Tradecraft meets Lovecraft' is the way Tim Powers describes his latest novel. And he's right. Declare is Powers' wild romp combining a John LeCarr?-style spy novel with his own blend offantasy and horror.<br/><br/>This is definitely my favorite Powers' book since The Stress of Her Regard, and Dec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5312591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This might be my favorite novel by Powers (although I am awfully fond of <em>Last Call</em> and <em>Earthquake Weather</em>). Maybe it's just because I had finished a book about Ubar that mentioned Kim Philby's father, so it was really engaging to see what Powers did with that little knot of history. Other than that,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30383625">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this a lot more than I did.  I thought the plot was fascinating, but it dragged quite a bit, and with the exception of Elena I was totally disinterested in the characters.  I felt like Powers did A LOT of research for this book, and wanted to make sure that every detail was recorded...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68766784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A terrific mix of  cold war thriller, drawing on the twisted history of the British spy Kim Philby and his fellow traitors, plus a Raiders of the Lost Ark-type mcguffin.  Powers has a way of very effectively placing his scenes in very specific places -- Berlin as it was being divvided up by the Alli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60370473">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall a fun read. Gets very supernatural in the last half of the book and the wrap-up happens a bit too quickly. I enjoyed the way the author hung the story around real-life people and events. Kim Philby is one of the main characters and a few other historical figures play minor roles, including A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42789696">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Declare is a spy novel set in a supernatural alternative history.  The history was well researched, I liked the characters, and it had a satisfying end, but I felt like it bogged down a little in the middle due to a complicated timeline.<br/><br/>Pluses for me are the setting (post WWII intrigue b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57340325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tour de force of an alternative historical novel involving Kim Philby, British Intelligence, Nazis, Russians, and a bunch of djinn. The depiction of the ghulah, Machikha Nash, Mother Russia's guardian angel, is particularly frightening.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave up partway through. It's dense British spy work at its least rewarding. There may be great complicated plot threads weaving together, but I couldn't see the pattern for the yarn. Plus I bleeding hate limeys, love.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so far i have learned that if you take two weeks to read the first chapter, you will find yourself re-reading it every time you pick it up... not a great way to start a book. ]]></body>
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