The Bible Repairman [Paperback]

Tim Powers (Author, Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 28 pages
• Publisher: Subterranean Press (December 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596060468
• ISBN-13: 978-1596060463
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,662,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Ghostly Bedtime Tale!, February 5, 2006

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Jesse L. McCann "imagine a humorous quote here" (Los Angeles USA) - See all my reviews
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A ghostly bedtime tale; perfect to read in bed, that is, on a cold snowy night. No one covers the L.A. ghost scene like Tim Powers, and this small booklet-style collectable short story is no exception. It concerns a doomed individual, the title character, who also performs other tasks around the dark arts. Good for a quick Powers fix!

Now- ON TO A GRIPE: this is, as I mentioned, a collectable. There were only around 500 printed. It was signed by Powers. Why on Earth would Amazon (or whoever it was) place a sticker on the back (very crookedly) with the ISBN number? Couldn't they have bagged it and placed the sticker on the bag? Personally, I don't care, but being in the business I've been in for 16 years, I know plenty of collectors who will. Bad move, sticker guy!

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Repairing of Bibles and Souls, March 1, 2006

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Randy Stafford (St. Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bible Repairman (Paperback)

In California, a secret magical underground exists. Souls of the dead haunt electronic equipment. Bibles are cleansed of offending verses, and the blood of murderers stills the whispers of the dead.

But, as always in Powers, magic comes at a price. Wizard Torrez, the bible repairman, has a soul tainted by murder, a dead child, a broken marriage, and an intellect leaking away. And a new client wants to take away what little he has left.

While taking place in a world reminiscent of his novel Expiration Date, there is no secret history here, no grand conspiracies -- just a subtle tale of loss, sin, and sacrifice.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Love the Story; Hate the Format, April 20, 2006

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themooselistener "Dunk" (Deepest Darkest New England) - See all my reviews

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Tim Powers is one of my favorite writers of both novels and short stories. I loved this story of regret and release but I don't like the pamphlet format at all. I would rather wait for a collection of stories or read it in a magazine or in an online format. One short is not enough "bang for the buck" even as a "limited edition" with illustrations by the artist. Mr Powers is a talented writer and an untalented illustrator.