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Summary: A masterpiece of imagination from Barker
Review: This is a masterpiece of imagination from Barker. Randolph Jaffe was a failure post office employee who wanted to be big, but ended up small. Along with his co-workers he started opening mail and, in doing so, found a secret that another world existed besides ours. Thus, he went to find this world and with it the power to rule. Not learning anything from his own miserable life, he mistreated the power to create evil. Thus he opened the gates to our own world and created a battle of chaos. Superb.
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Summary: Clive at his best
Review: I'm a big fan of Clive Barker. His imagination is abstract enough to make some people dismiss him with contept, while others like me take pleasure in the ability to wander through his world and explore whats on offer.
The aspects Clive puts in his books run through theologys religions and belief systems across the world, and in a way the reader can get under there skin in a world of fiction which can then be left as the book shuts, giving the experience without the complications which adhering to the systems that flow through his writting demand if you choose that way of life. Its escapism, in its best form. Alternative realities, normal people becoming... well, just Becoming.
Enjoy!
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Summary: Generic House Wife Fiction with a Heart of Suck
Review: This book is generic housewife fiction. It's very unimaginative and boring. The book, which is over 600 pages longs, tells a story that can be told in a paragraph. The latter applies only to the first 300 pages. I couldn't finish this book because it's like being kicked in the face with a big boot that has a knife on it and that knife has an even longer, sharper knife on it.
The explanation for how the events that transpire in this book is so bad that it doesn't need mentioning. It's just a terrible, terrible book. It has a lot of sexual things so that losers can get excited and live vicariously through the book. There is a great deal of obscenities because it's not a clever book so there's no reason to not curse.
It's like a bad made for TV movie with poor special effects. It's on late because it's technically soft-core porn, but only technically.
What happens is, this guy somehow gets superpowers. The somehow in the book is getting drunk and walking in the desert. Then he meets another guy who makes a formula that gives them stronger super powers. One is bad, the other is good. They fight for a long time and end up falling in a hole. It rains. A lake is formed. Four girls swim in it and the two guys rape them so that they can have soldiers with physical manifestations because these two guys are ethereal. Out of the four girls, only three children come out and live. They grow up, the two guys escape from the hole and try to contact them. The super powers of the guys are that one, the bad one, can manifest monsters out of fears, and the other, the good, can make nice monsters out of fantasies. The two of them escape the hole and prepare for a great battle.
There are many characters in this book and each of them has a purpose. What that purpose is I will not find out because I stopped reading after the sentence, "Without thinking, he put his fingers, which smelled strongly of her sex, to his nose and lips." I exclaimed, "Whoa! Too much bad book for me," and quit, but I recommend you never begin, unless you like being kicked in the face with a big boot that has a knife on it.
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Summary: Wow.
Review: I consider myself a fairly slow reader, but I finished this book in about a week. It was not at all hard to read or understand. I could not put it down!! I almost called off work just to be able to finish the last chapter! It's a huge mix of everything possible (love, war - not your typical war either!, murder, sex, insanity, imagination, monsters, fears, dreams) and you never know what to expect! I really enjoyed this book. "Everville" is on my bookshelf waiting it's turn to be read.
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Summary: This refers to the 'abridged' audiobook, not the novel.
Review: This was a great book but this is an AWFUL abridgement. Literally, the tapes (672 pages boiled down to two audio cassettes) should be call THEGTW as that is how boiled down it is. Whole characters are gone. Whole story lines are discarded. Stephen King once said that he won't ever allow abridgements and now I understand why. Clive, if you are reading this...did you actually ok there tapes. They are really bad.DO read the novel. DO NOT buy, rent or borrow this horrific abridgement.
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Summary: Thinking Man's (or Woman's) Horror
Review: GSS is a compelling mixture of stories that only a master like Clive Barker could pull together. Among the many stories a lucky ready will find in this book are star-crossed lovers (ala Romeo&Juliet), clashing forces of magic vs. technology, believeable characters with everyday concerns overcome by extraordinary events, "sins of the fathers", self-immolation, visits from ethereal porn stars and just to finish things off in style, a minor apocalypse that destroys the sunny California suburb of Palomo Grove. (By the way, this brief synopsis doesn't begin to cover a fraction of the characters and events in this book!) GSS is a challenging, thought-provoking book that will definitely appeal to people who love horror stories with substance.
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