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Review title: Call this one Premature Expiration Date
Product review: To quote Dorothy Parker, "this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force." About a third of the way through this one it got assigned to the used book store stack. Sure, the plot was convoluted, but I expected that from Powers. My problem with this book was the lack of reward in reading it. By the time I gave up none of the characters meant anything to me. In short, Powers had not given me any reason to keep reading, other than (possibly) figuring out what was going on. I'm sorry, but I require more from a novel. I was quite dissapointed, since I consider Annubis Gates one of the best books of any genre. Expiration Date was DOA at my house, and I probably won't be buying anymore of Powers' work.
