Everville

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Summary: Unclassifiable, big and beautiful
Review: This is not "Horror", it is not "Fantasy". This book is too big to fit into any kind of slot. I am still struck speechless after my third consecutive reading. Good ? Bad ? This book doesn't even fit into these slots... The only thing I can say is that it fits into the "alive" category, in the sense that Oscar Wilde used the word... ...what happens next?

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Summary: LET'S GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT
Review: THIS ISN'T HORROR! it's fantasy sheesh people. this was a great book (I love the character of Harry D'Amour, anyone know what else he's been in besides Great and Secret Show, Last Illusion/Lord of Illusions?)

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Summary: Truly a Work of Art
Review: This novel was truly the greatest book I've ever read. Yes, it took awile but it was more than worth it. It has a deeply complex plot and strangely unique charcters. It takes you places you have never even dreamed of and beyond!

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Summary: ever been in love with a book?
Review: When i first read this book, i never finished it..well i guess i wasn't ready for it then. Some years later , by chance , i started to read it again and got adicted. i kind of really saw the characters and felt exspecially drawn to Buddenbaum. Now many paople will go....WHAT....but still he is one of those guys that believe in what they do, and follow that road to the end.. no matter what. Once they have found a goal they will persue it to death or ...in this case love....will stop them..defeat never will.

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Summary: Give us more, Barker. MORE!!
Review: When I read this book for the first time a few years ago, it put me in a addictive state of shock and admiration. This was the best book I had ever read - no kidding.

Though it is a sequel I hadn't at that time read TG&SS and had therefore no forehand knowledge of the many more-than-human characters roaming this book. I followed the story which was at times quite confusing but allways intriguingly fascinating as it grew through the book into epic proportions. As allways with Barker you never know what to expect throughout the book, but he rarely dissapoints and more likely he takes the tale even higher than you imagined possible. You just want to read on and on, to know what happens.

Barker has a unique way of opening the readers mind to strange new ideas that is unparalleled in any other writing. If you haven't read Barker before this is as good a place as any to start. If you have, you certainly can't afford to miss this one! At present I have read just about anything Clive has written - some powerfull stuff a lot of it - but I will never forget my "first time" with Everville.

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Summary: EVERVILLE IS EVERYTHING BACKASSWARD!
Review: You gotta understand that you should ignore the 1 rating; itsrating should really be a -10. Or maybe a -10i, as in imaginarynumbers, for the chaotic storyline that this here was lends an imaginary legend to Mr. Barker still having what it takes to entertain and shock people with his horror jive. (Hey Clive! Go back to short stories; relearn how to stroke the ideas, man! And quit trying to be a British cowboy! You just ain't cutting it, dude! Or maybe even coming off as just another vapid television series of compressed hot air passions and equally inconsequential intrigues is what's turning you on these days? Who knows?)