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I've been wanting another book like Declare ever since I read it - annoying to find your absolute favourite genre appears to consist of exactly one book. Not th
by amenhotep 3y ago
I've been wanting another book like Declare ever since I read it - annoying to find your absolute favourite genre appears to consist of exactly one book. Not that the Laundry isn't fun and good :) but there's something about how mystical Declare is, like a Crying of Lot 49 or Foucault's Pendulum but that actually wants to get somewhere with its hints of a bigger world rather than just tease the reader with them.
- jhbadger 3y agoDepends on what you want from a book "like Declare". While it isn't about spies, Powers' "Last Call" is basically "Declare" only about the early mob-run history of Las Vegas as the background instead of the Cold War.
- sonofhans 3y ago“Last Call” is amazing. I’ve read it 3 times, and I swear, the last 150 pages are still some of the most intense I’ve encountered.
- amenhotep 3y agoI've read most of Powers' other books and liked them, but none hit quite the same. Declare had a gritty majesty to it with the geopolitics, the others had a bit too much of the fantastic about them. Too obviously stories to fit the history, rather than... history turned into a story, I guess? The spy angle really lent itself to his writing, for me. O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?
- bmordue 3y ago"The War in the Dark" by Nick Setchfield scratched a similar itch to "Declare" for me. (There's a sequel too, but I've not read it).