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Summary: TRUELY TERRIFYING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Unlike his other novels that mixed fantasy with science fiction with horror with erotica, this novel is a book about pure horror. Barker throws away his fantasy tricks and brings us a book about evil incarnate. I have read many of Barker's works and I love all of them, but this was by far the best. I LOVED IT!!!!! Stephen King will never be de-throned, but this book is comparable to the master of the macabre. King may be the King of horror, but after reading this book Barker IS the prince!!!! A MUST READ!!!!
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Summary: Poetry in HORROR
Review: The absolute gore poetry book. Clive barker exceed the limits of horor and becomes with this book the real master of the game. Masterpiece.
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Summary: Barker delivers Horror to the needy masses
Review: Clive Barker supercedes the attempts of other pop horror writer, by tomenting the real and imagined areas in your brain by somehow transporting them to a playing field all his own to give us, his readers, an glimpse into the treasures of his mind.
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Summary: ENGROSSING
Review: A FANTASTIC BOOK, NOT OF THE SAME MOLD AS BARKERS LATER FANTASY NOVELS BUT PURE HORROR TOLD WITH INTELLIGENCE. ONE OF THE FEW BOOKS I'VE READ THAT COULD REALLY ESTABLISH ITS OWN RHYTHM AND MOOD, A TONE LIKE NO OTHER, NOT SOME COOKIE CUTTER HORROR GARBAGE LIKE KOONTZ OR MCCAMMON. THIS WILL SATISFY ANY FAN OF THE GENRE WHO HAS GONE UNFULFILLED FOR TOO LONG. WHY THERE HASN'T BEEN A MOVIE IS A MYSTERY TO ME, WHAT'S FRIEDKIN DOING LATELY?
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Summary: What???????
Review: What on Earth??? Or better, what on "Barkerland" is happening here?? God almighty! Before I knew it, BANG, it was finished. I sure do hope that "Sacrament" will pay up for his "The Damnation Game". Ok, Ok, it was his first attempt at writing, but even so, dreadfully confusing. I'm so sorry Mr. Barker...you work only looks good on screen, or if it is Weaveworld, which IS a good book... Maybe if Clive starts breathing more of Planet Earth's air, he will be able to produce more acceptable works. Because if THIS is what he has to offer, then I am sorry, but "The future of horror" as prophesised by Stephen King himself, is one of decadence...but even so, at bits, well written. Too bad his at times good writing doesn't save him from all the confusion this book generates. Better luck next time.
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Summary: Barker's greatest journey into physiological hell
Review: The Damnation Game surpasses any other of Barker's novels, including the phantasmagoric "Weaveworld", because of its graphic attention to the decay of the protangonists...Instead of it being a story about a man who lost a bet with the the Devil, this man lost a bet with a man who wishes he was the Devil, making him even more challenging to battle.
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Summary: Ick.
Review: This was the first Clive Barker book I ever bought and read. I was desperately bored and determined not to squander money, so I picked up a book by the new master of horror. Well, even a master has his off months. The only reason I finished this book was because I didn't want to believe I had wasted my money. However, I was none too keen on Barker for months afterward, until seeing "Nightbreed" and "Hellraiser." He could apparently write good, memorable stories for the screen when he tried, so what had happened with "The Damnation Game?" I think that part of my problem is that he was so concerned with squicking his audience that he failed to go for a memorable theme. I remember the Razor Eater, and the really gross part at the end of the book ... and that's *it*. I'm only this bad with remembering his short stories, for crying out loud! Maybe "The Damnation Game" should have been a short story. Perhaps there was a point to the book that was buried under too much plot. Or maybe he just needed to get this dull story out of his head so that the better ones could have come out. But, come on, did he really have to _publish_ it?
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Summary: The best Barker has to offer
Review: The Damnation Game is the finest novel of Barker's career to
date. When I first discovered Barker, I was intrigued
initially by the Books of Blood. Then, when Damnation
Game came out, I was as impressed by his writing as I had
been by anything King had ever written. I have read all
of his subsequent novels, but none packs the power of
The Damnation Game.
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Summary: Top of the line Clive Barker - his best work to date
Review: This is the definitive horror book written by a true modern master of the horror genre.
An intense and descriptive work that has excellent characters that are well-defined and believable. The scary parts..and they are numerous; are deadly..Barker
tears into the world of our hidden fears and pulls them out
for us to see. The story carries on at an even pace, twisting every so often though delivering a truly memorable story without any sort of predictability.
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Summary: Like nothing you've ever read before.
Review: I love Clive Barker and this is the book that introduced me to him. I read it about 5 years ago and have never forgot it. I was so disturbed some times I had to stop reading for a few minutes just to calm down. But that didn't stop me from this great story. It will scare the pants off you
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