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Summary: Step aside Tolkien.
Review: After reading the book Weave World, I knew that I had to get my hands on Imajica as quick as I could. When I finally did, and started into the first few hundred pages, I came extremely close to setting the book aside. But I remained strong and continued on. I'm glad I did. Once you approach the end of the first book the long introduction begins to end and the real story begins. After that there is no stopping yourself from being sucked into the world of Imajica. Clive Barker once again proves that horror is not his only boundary, and shows that he has one of the most superb minds of any author to date.
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Summary: I remembered it being better.
Review: I remember reading this book when if first came out and I loved it. Of course that was twelve years ago.For some reason I decided to read it again and didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I thought I was going too. Perhaps it was the length of the novel or the fact that everything is sexual for Barker that threw me off this time around. Maybe I've matured in life. The characters are well developed, the detail is well done, but the story does drag at times. Frankly I was anxious to get to the end so I could start something else. The idea of five independent world waiting to be reconciled is interesting though. I read King's "The Talisman" and liked it much better
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Summary: The Book of Longing...
Review: ... The story is set in england and involves a pilgrimage through an amazing elsewhere: inside and out. As with any pilgrimage there is pain, suffering, self-discovery, reunion and loss. At the center of this is the main two characters: Gentle and Judith: almost the Adam and Eve of renunion. ALong the way we meet a multitude of other characters, starting with the mystif Pie 'o'pah- assassin and ... the most amazing character you're likely to meet. In a way it is Pie who encapsulates this book: it is erotic, strange, alluring, amorphous, deep, multifacted, tender, sorrowful, meloncholy, joyful, lost, perilous, longing, hard edged and you see so much of yourself reflected in it. Barker's characterization and grasp of humanity is truly profound in this book. If you could put the second movement of Beethoven's fifth symphony in literal form, it would be this book. ... Like Gentle and Judith, you might go away from this book, but you always come back to it...in time.
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Summary: Brilliant.
Review: Imajica is simply one of the best books I have ever read. Barker has a wonderful ablility of describing alternate/other worlds to such an extent that it seems he were there. His vision is comparable to that of Lovecraft.
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Summary: Clive Barker is GOD of horror
Review: Ever since the movie Lord of Illusions I've been a huge fan of Clive Barker's. I have since gotten every one of his books I could get my hands on. Imajica is my all time favorite of them all. It's full of imagination of different worlds and characters both human and inhuman. It's nice to be able to escape from this world into the 5 dominions of the Imajica. He puts more on one page than most people do in one book. I'm in the middle of reading it for the third time.
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Summary: Wow
Review: Wow. I'm a 16 year old individual from Hartford, Michigan. I've always been an avid reader, and recently i started reading Clive Barker, starting with Weaveworld (which actually was a few years ago) and then went on to read The Damnation Game, The Great and Secret Show, and Everville. Just today, March 13th, 2003, i finished Imajica. By far the best book i've ever read. I'm a tenth grader and my teachers have always been impressed by how much i read. I've read all of Dean Koontz's books and are in the process of reading all of Stephen Kings. I started readin Stephen King in 4th grade, but became interested in other authors in the meantime, but recently i read The Stand. I thought for the longest time itd be my favorite book. Then I got into Imajica. I started reading it a few times and couldnt get right into it. But then one day i decided that i was gonna read it. It took me a lil bit but then i finished it and havent stopped thinking bout it yet. The characters were so real and had so much emotion put into them. Every time someone died or someone left for somewhere, i'd have to sit there for a moment, wondering why lol. I just wanted everybody to know this book is a MUST buy. I'm still waiting for the third one in the trilogy GASS and Everville. Everybody, please please read this!
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Summary: One of the worst books I've read.
Review: I don't get how anybody could like this book. I don't even understand why I finished it. None of the characters are understandable. They don't even understand why they do things. Whenever anybody actually DOES something in this book, it is as if they are compelled to do it. They are in a trance or it just sort of happens. So many things in this book are "weird for weirds sake." They don't have meaning, they just stretch out the length of the book with bizarre description after bizarre description, all of them blurring into a huge mess which makes no sense.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: This is my second time reading this book, or rather two books now. It takes you on a wild ride. It's a journey you will be glad you took.
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Summary: A Masterpiece!
Review: My girlfriend recommended Barker to me, and I decided to start with this book, despite her warnings that it was quite possibly his most difficult to understand. Well, I loved it. It was a mind bender beyond any of my expectations. The way I see it, every time an idea comes into a writer's mind, he or she has to measure it against certain criteria: is this a creative idea? does it advance the plot? is it too bizarre? etc. However, Barker seems to disregard that third question, letting his books go free to the world of absolute lunacy and bizarre images and, as confusing as they can get sometimes, they're all the better for it. The only flaw I saw in the book was that his characters are not very likable at the beginning of the story, so I had to push myself to get past the first few chapters, but once the story gets rolling the characters' vulnerabilities start to come to the surface and they stop being high and mighty snobs, womanizers and [morally loose], and start becoming people we can learn to love and root for. So, the book is amazing, absolutely phenomenal, but I would suggest maybe starting out with another one of Barker's works, just in case you're not as lucky enough to have a die hard Barker fan as a girlfriend to explain to you the things you don't get. Maybe start out with some of his short stories like in the Books of Blood, and start to get a feel for his bizarre imagery and outlandish ideas before you delve into something as complex as the Imajica.
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Summary: Incredible, beyond the scope of anything else I've ever read
Review: Imajica has it all, and you will not put it down the second you pick it up, from a humble beginning of a jealous husband wanting vengence on his wife, the plot explodes and encompasses more than you could imagine. The most fascinating part of this novel is how Barker is able to show the clash between the sexes in just about every aspect; from God and the Goddesses, from Judith and Gentle, and how Clive was able to meld both together to make Pie O Pah. Yes the ending was a tad awkward, and it gave me a sense of sadness knowing the journey of Jon Furie Zacharias was over, but he is still out there, searching the Imajica....Nisi Nirvana everyone ;)
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