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Summary: We want more..!
Review: This is a great book. I admit that the plot does not reach a satisfying conclusion but the romance does. We should not forget that the book is sub headed a ROMANCE and that is the part of the novel that reaches a satisfying climax. Clive said upon the release of this novel that there would be a sequel no question. The book needs one and I personally can't wait as the story is brilliant. BARKER is a genius.
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Summary: Whatever
Review: Difficult reading. Unfocused. Parts of the book were very good but in the end, it left me feeling somewhere between wanting more and being happy it was finally over, like feeling nothing. Sort of like this review... *usually Clive Barker is The Greatest but not this time*
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Summary: Open your minds!
Review: Clive Barker, once again, moves beyond the mainstream, with this elegant and beautifully written book, that less intelligent fans might find a little too profound. The story is written in dream prose, in which we are taken into another world (like all his previous books). Except this time, the world is our own, inhabited by beautiful creatures, the Barbarrosas, who transcend flesh, and seem to contain all of Barker's wit and beauty. The antithesis of these creatures are the Geary's, who fear and hate the Barbarossas. It seems that the Barbarossas represent all that Barker is as a writer and person, and that the Geary's represent the world's dogmas and its banal beourgois living. What Barker does in all his fiction, is subvert the normal, to take his readers to places we have never been before. Some minds can handle the ride, others cannot, and just continually bash this apotheosized fiction. The fractious insults are insolent and unfulfilled, with lack of support for opinion. So read this book and create your own view, and maybe, if you can, let Barker take you on a trip that no other author before or after could ever comprehend. For Barker fans, as Dorthea says,"Flesh is a trap, and majic sets us free", Barker is that majic, let him set us free!
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Summary: I was letdown....
Review: I am a long time fan of Clive Barker, and have eagerly read all of his work. As a dark fiction author, he is brilliant. He is always a powerful writer, but "Galilee" just left me flat. I'm not against a writer changing "genres", but the storyline, though it does deal in part with some type of immortal clan, just seemed like an overlong soap.
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Summary: The never ending story
Review: This is my first Clive Barker book, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I thought the book started out great, with interesting characters and a mystery about the relationship between the families. It really bogged down in the middle, and seemed to drag on and on. But I stuck with it to find get to the good finish that I thought was there. Well, it never arrived. The last two thirds of the book never lived up to the build up. The mysteries of the past were briefly commented on but never really explained. I guess this means a sequel, but I won't read it.
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Summary: I was really disappointed in this book
Review: I don't like giving bad reviews, especially to books by authors whose work I have really enjoyed in the past, but Galilee was really a letdown.I've been a Clive Barker fan since before he found a U.S. publisher, and I count the Books of Blood and Imajica as being among my favorite books. But this novel was all about unfulfilled promises. It set up a wonderful premise, and keeps promising to deliver great things (in fact, I got sick of the narrator Maddox dropping hints about things to come which would astound), but all of the "surprises" fall flat. Maybe the problem is that Barker can't decide who is audience is. I get the feeling that he was trying to reach a more mainstream audience with this book, which led to constantly pulling his punches. I think the end-result is an emasculated version of Barker that in the final accounting will satisfy no one. I really hope there isn't a sequel (although it appears inevitable). If you want to read good Barker on a grand scale, try Imajica.
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Summary: Out of his genre.
Review: Clive Barker writes excellent thrillers, but with "Galilee" he is out of his element. I optimistically plowed through 400 pages before giving up, but the book was just too slow-moving, lackluster, and ultimately insignificant. I have no curiosity at all about what happens in the last 236 pages - that says it all.
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Summary: boring and pointless
Review: This was the first time I'd read Barker, and likely the last. The story doesn't begin until nearly a quarter of the way through the book, and, quite frankly, it wasn't worth the wait.
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Summary: The Best Book I've read in a long time.
Review: This is the first book I've read of Clive Barker's and I thought it was magnificent. It was a little boring at first, but I thought I would stick to it. I was greatly rewarded, it was great! Edmund was a great story teller, and I hope he writes a sequel.
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Summary: You promised me the moon, but you gave me a moon pie
Review: Saturday Night Live - that font of human wisdom - teaches us that something good as a 2 minute sketch isn't so good as a 600 page novel (see Pat or A Night at the Roxbury). The idea of two rival families, one human, the other something more, both immensely powerful, sounds epic, and Barker has the talent to pull it off. Sadly, he doesn't. Instead we get a very long story that would have been better off short. The book starts strong with hints of things to come, and I'll admit that the vistas Barker draws and the language he uses are so promising that they kept me reading til the end. But as I read more, I grew less enchanted. Why do Rachael and Galilee like each other? Why does anyone see the Gearys as rivals to the Barbarossas? Where's the conflict? Where's the drama? In place of epic scope we get petty squabling, the hints of the story are better than the story itself, and the book's summary is its best written page.
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