Rating: 
Summary: Billiant. Thoughtful. In a class of its own.
Review:
Clive Barker is a troubled genius. His writing style is arguably one of the most lucid and emotional found on modern shelves. Yet he twists our world into frightening - sometimes shocking - images that will certainly haunt you long after you put down his work. He is not for the faint-hearted.
Imajica is perhaps Barker's best novel - it is certainly my favorite.
From a philosophically adept literary opening, Barker slam-dunks the reader into a dark world of mysticism and bloodshed. As his central characters struggle to solve the mysteries that surround themselves, including sinister revelations about their own identities, Barker neatly weaves an epic that explores our views of God, gender, sex and mortality.
Even if you are already dead, do not miss this novel
Rating: 
Summary: Barker is in love with his own writing
Review: Although original, Barker could have written this book in 300 pages rather than 1000. Too wordy, and plot much more complex than it should have been.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing story telling.
Review: Although the beginning of this story is more than a little slow, the importance of the setup becomes apparent as you follow Gentle, Pie-oh-pah, and Judith through the dominions via a complex and well crafted story. The story combines beautiful imagery with shocking brutality and never lets you guess what the next page will bring. My copy of Imagica is a single hard bound book that I couldn't put down until the final page. Worth a buy, and worth the time it takes to read.
Rating:
Summary: SURREAL, BREATH-TAKING, AND EUPHORIC!!!
Review: As an avid reader of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy, I have never had a book get me "high" to the point where I felt I could leap from a mountain and soar forever. Mr. Barker attains a level of imagination King wishes he had; fleshing out rich, complex characters that remain with you long after you read the last sentence. The story, at its core deals with love, war, lost identities, and a quest for harmony. Tolkien and Donaldson readers would be missing the reading experience of their life were they not to enter Barker's world
Rating:
Summary: SURREAL, BREATH-TAKING, AND EUPHORIC!!!
Review: As an avid reader of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy, I have never had a book get me "high" to the point where I felt I could leap from a mountain and soar forever. Mr. Barker attains a level of imagination King wishes he had; fleshing out rich, complex characters that remain with you long after you read the last sentence. The story, at its core deals with love, war, lost identities, and a quest for harmony. Tolkien and Donaldson readers would be missing the reading experience of their life were they not to enter Barker's world
Rating:
Summary: Does Not Live Up To Its Potential
Review: Barker's talent with prose is greater than most fantasy writers alive today, so it's disappointing that the novel does not really live up to the potential for a truly great masterpiece. One problem is lack of compelling characters, whether good or evil. Instead of the annoying Dowd, Judith, Gentle and Pie, it's the sympathetic children characters who keep getting murdered in grisly manners. The plot rambles on like Barker wrote it for a TV mini-series, i.e. focusing instead on a series of locales that would "look good on film". Barker also plays annoyingly coy with the explanation of the five dominions, which is revealed later as a rather cliched concept. Finally, there was only one "IMAJICA" book in hardcover. Why did they split it up into I and II in softcover? Show me the money.
Rating:
Summary: CLIVE BARKERS FINEST MOMENT, THE MOST ORIGINAL BOOK EVER
Review: CLIVE BARKER'S IMAJICA OFFERS TO US HIS MOST BRILLIANT AND IMAGINITVE WORK TO DATE. THE STUNNING EPIC OF A LOST SON OF GOD, A FORGER, A FAKE AND A FALIUR BY HIS OWN INSTANT AND HIS JOURNY THROUGH THE REALMS OF EXISTANCE, AND HIS OWN HUMANITY. THIS BOOK OFFERS UP SOME OF BARKERS MOST LURID AND INTERSTIN CHARATURES TO DAY, NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH IS "PIE 'O PAH" A VIVIDLY REALIZED PERSONA, BOTH MALE AND FEMALE, WHORE AND ASSASSIN, AND WHATEVER YOUR DREAMS OR NIGHTMARES MAKE OF IT. THIS BOOK BLOWS APART ALL RELIVANT SCRIPTURE ON CHRISTIANILY, AND OFFERS UP A NEW, AND FANTASTICAL VIEW ON OUR OWN EXISTANCE. REALIZED IN THE SENCE OF TOLSTOY, SHAKESPEARE, TOLKIEN, AND OTHER BRILLIAN EXPLORES OF PHILOSPHY AND HUMANITY, THIS NOVEL TAKES THE READER FAR BEYOND THE TOP, AND LEAVES ONE IN A STATE OF WONDER, AND ENDLESS THOUGHT. IN "HELLRAISER" BARKER'S "PINHEAD" SAID "I HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU." THESE ARE THOSE SIGHT
Rating:
Summary: The New Bible of Horror
Review: From the first page until the last, you will be completely out of breath. Pay attention while new worlds unfurl before your eyes. Your most blissful dreams and your most horrifying nightmares come true. Never before has there been a book like this. The future of horror, Clive Barker, (Stephen who?) has outdone himself once again.
I won't tell you what the book is about. The story is too complicated to put down in a couple of lines. I just feel like I should warn you. Once you've opened Imajica, there is no escape...
Rating: 
Summary: What the frack?
Review: I am having such a hard time reading this novel. I'm only on page 205 after a week of taking brief dips into to this... book. I'm a person who usually puts away one to two novels a week. I am hoping I haven't wasted my time and that it gets better. So far I have made no emotional contact with the main characters. Everything is so unmotivated. I am at the point where Gentle and Pie oh pah have made their first trip to another dominion. They walk down the street with senseless advice from Pie then encounter a "who goes there" type of characters. They exchange words, then are rescued by some guy who happens to walk up on them by chance. I am so frustrated with the way this book is being executed. I am so close to the point of putting this book down for good. So far I have seen nothing that warrants the praise this book has received. To me, this book feels like an unpolished first draft, just waiting to have huge chunks of irrelevant material cut from it to improve story flow and plot progression. I will retract this review of mine if things turn for the better.
Rating:
Summary: You will like imajica if...
Review: I bought the hard copy years ago, but have since lost it. I purchased Imajica I and II, thinking that the second was a sequal to the first. It is not. The original hard cover book has been broken up into two paperback books. I am about halfway through the first, and it is still a great read.
| 
