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Review title: We Could Have Done Without the Werewolves
Product review: Tim Powers is a writer of considerable ability who lacks sufficient discipline. This novel has everything in it but the kitchen sink. The flashbacks and flashforwards are okay, but when the werewolves came in to an already rather complicated tale of Egyptians/Gypsies/London pickpockets/wacky American scientists/English professors I sort of lost interest. The best part of the book by far is the fragment at the beginning by William Ashbless, "The Twelve Hours of the Night", which is excellent. I think Powers should switch to poetry and drop his prose career.
