Rating: 
Summary: Imajica I is only half the story...
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.
Rating: 
Summary: Cool Cover. Better book. You can judge a b. by a c.
Review: I bought this book cause it had a cool cover. I was not disappointed!! If anything, a book this good deserves a cover like the one I saw. I didn't even know what it was about when I bought it. Intricate plots, a complete world of magic creatures and mysteries just beyond reach. Moderate characterization with oh-so-cool non-sequiteurs that make you go "Huh?" and read all the more hungrily for answers. Worthy of Clive Barker. Gotta read it!!!
Rating: 
Summary: Very readable but plot is unclear after 500 pages.
Review: I read the first book in a day and found it very readable, some of the scenes were good, but I don't see much point to reading the second book because the plot, if there is one, is too diffuse. Too many unanswered questions after 500 pages. Can anyone tell me what's going on in this book? Why are Gentle and Pie wandering around the Dominions? Why did Pie try to kill Judith? Why not get to the point. If it's just a fantasy trip, okay, but I've lost interest at around page 450.
Rating:
Summary: Most amazing book I've ever had the PLEASURE of reading!
Review: I'm an avid reader, but very rarely does a book capture me the way this one did. It has become a comfort book for me, something I return to to make my life a little more magical. And it has become my teacher. The following line from Imajica has taken on a great importance in my life: "...everything you learn is already part of you, even to the Godhead Itself. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing. For everything that does evil is in pain." This is more than a book, it is a philosophy, a mentor. I've read it more time that I can count, it's traveled with me through the most important times in my life, and I treasure it. It is the greatest testament to Barker's talent. It's only downside, I can't help but compare all other books to it. And so far, the only books to come CLOSE to the perfection of this story were the LOTR epic and the Dune epic. And even they fall short, not following the most basic rules of Pluthero Quexos, refusing to end with the empty stage.
Rating:
Summary: Most amazing book I've ever had the PLEASURE of reading!
Review: I'm an avid reader, but very rarely does a book capture me the way this one did. It has become a comfort book for me, something I return to to make my life a little more magical. And it has become my teacher. The following line from Imajica has taken on a great importance in my life: "...everything you learn is already part of you, even to the Godhead Itself. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing. For everything that does evil is in pain." This is more than a book, it is a philosophy, a mentor. I've read it more time that I can count, it's traveled with me through the most important times in my life, and I treasure it. It is the greatest testament to Barker's talent. It's only downside, I can't help but compare all other books to it. And so far, the only books to come CLOSE to the perfection of this story were the LOTR epic and the Dune epic. And even they fall short, not following the most basic rules of Pluthero Quexos, refusing to end with the empty stage.
Rating:
Summary: I have read both the books of the Imajica. Amazing.
Review: If I have missed any of Clive barkers books then I have missed much. I love the involved intricacy of his writing. I find myself repeating passages to make sure I have understood the complications and intentions before proceeding. Time with any book by Clive Barker is time well spent , in particular the two Imaja volumes. Try "Weaveworld". truly fascinating.
Rating:
Summary: The Most MAJICALLY book I've ever read.
Review: Imajica involves life in the 90's with the delirious mind of C.Barker. The story involves magic, colors, people, magnificent landscapes, horror, love, sex...but yet they combine simlessly into the plot. In short, THE book. Will leave you with a smile. promise.
Rating:
Summary: A Monumental Metaphysical Marvel
Review: It is hard to believe that it has been over ten years since I first read this mammoth novel- and some thirteen since it was first published. I think "mammoth" is not exaggerating, for how else do you describe on novel that exists as two separate volumes, each of over 500 pages? This isn't a casual read. It represents a considerable investment in time. There are also so many characters, settings, plot lines, specialized vocabulary and underlying principles to keep straight.... Yet, it is worth the investment in time and effort. The basic framework, like so many of Barker's other novels, is that of a hidden world behind the superficial façade of our mundane world. Barker is such a master at interweaving mundane, and profane, details into the greater fabric of his realities that you find yourself totally drawn in. I found myself totally immersed in this hidden reality. For this is a story of five worlds, or dimensions, or Dominions. These make up the whole of Imajica. That is, they should. Two hundred years ago there was an attempt to reconcile our own fifth Dominion with the other four. This ended in a metaphysical catastrophe so great that that nearly all of the Dominions great theurgists, shamans, and theologians were killed. The result was that almost all magical knowledge passed from our world and for two centuries science and materialism held grim sway. Now, conditions are once again ripe for an attempt to reconcile the Dominions. The great magus', or Maestros, know that this may very well be the last attempt to heal the rift in creation. To fail this time will undoubtedly mean two more centuries of isolation- plenty of time for the Fifth Dominion to destroy itself in nuclear or ecological suicide. Yet, to heal the rift will require a Master of such power and confidence that he will try to succeed where all those that have gone before him (even the Christos) has failed....
Rating:
Summary: This book is fantastic, in the fullest sense of the word.
Review: Not since reading Tolkien have I been able to find an author who could pen a quest as richly told as this. Read it, shelve it, and read it again when you've once again forgotten that magic is all around you
Rating: 
Summary: Barker should be known as 'Plot's unlimited'.
Review: Pure claptrap. It seems Barker is trying to reinvent the plot by making his story lines more and more complicated. This seems to satisfy the ardent reader of such work, but Imajica falls short in its intellectual accessiblity to develop universal meaning because of its suffocatingly convoluted themes and self-important phliosophies. He is a great writer caught inside the tangles of his own webs of great intensions lost, huge themes bloated and bursting indifference. Somehow the story's other world(s) expectations get lost in the clutter of spiritual nonsense and cross migrating sexes. But I got to hand it to him; precious few others can weave that mucky web of plotting like Mr. Barker can
| 
