![]() ![]() My guess is he exhausted himself after tying together all five-hundred plot threads in this sprawling work. It is funny that he followed this novel up by Thief of Always, which was a one-sitting read, and not quite so adult. In both I'd argue that you get inconsequential or atmosphere-building scenes, but Barker has his own brand of surreal absurdity. ![]() I place him a cut above Stephen King, not that there's anything wrong with liking King - I just feel that Barker lays on one extra layer of polish. And if you don't like the name Pie' Oh' Pah, you better get used to it because it's going to come up a lot.īarker writes some of the most adult fantasy out there. Textbook and eTextbook are published under. It is thankfully less formulaic than it might have been, and Gentle is an interesting character to say the least, as is Jude and Pie' Oh' Pah. Acknowledged authors Barker, Clive wrote Imajica (The Fifth Dominion, Book 1) comprising 544 pages back in 1995. I think pieces of Weaveworld and Abarat might be slightly more mesmeric and parts of Great and Secret Show might be more engaging, but Imajica is a well-rounded book. It is truly impressive how disciplined a piece of writing this is. ![]() It reads pretty easily, if you don't get hand cramps. I found it slightly scattered in places, but the pace was generally appreciated by my riveted eyes. You get dark fantasy and plenty of wacky characters, plus some serious dimension-bending sequences. I'm not sure it is wise to start with this book if one is new to Clive Barker's work, but there certainly is something for everybody here. ![]()
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