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Title: Imajica by Clive Barker ISBN: 0-06-093726-2 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (116 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An awesome epic fantasy by the master of the genre
Comment:
And I used to think that it couldn't get any better than "The Great And Secret Show"...
Enter the powerful imagination of Clive Barker as he takes you on a mindblowing journey through the Imajica... Join Gentle, once a great and powerful Reconciler, as he meets his former love Pie'oh'Pah, rediscovers his destiny and travels through the worlds that make up the Imajica in a desperate attempt to reconcile the Earth with the four reconciled worlds of the Imajica.
Set in a mystical fantasy universe, Imajica is a monster of a book. Although my European version of Imajica was 1138 pages big, I managed to read it within three days - I simply couldn't stop once I got started. Imajica contains everything that a reader could ever want in a single book: Exotical characters, a wonderful story, powerful violence and a vivid sexual element. And as if that wasn't enough, Barker also redefines the entire Christian mythology! Read it at all costs!
Rating: 5
Summary: This is an AMAZING story.
Comment: I read this book about two years ago. The characters that Clive Barker creates for this story still haunt my mind to this day. The story is fantastic, the worlds he walks us through are immense and utterly fascinating. I have read many books of the same or similar genre, and in my opinion, Mr. Barker is the best there is.
He must surely understand human nature better than most authors, because his character development is flawless. He understands the depth of the human spirit, the problems people face, the imperfections and addictions that many normal people struggle with. I grow so weary of reading other people's work and seeing the flawless hero or heroin, who make few if any mistakes along there journey. Trying to relate to such an artificial character is difficult, at best. Clive Barkers writes about people... REAL people.
The author also understands that people change over time. He understands that by the end of any story worth telling, the characters have most likely changed extensively. Their views, behavior, mannerisms, and maybe even physical appearance have changed. Just as I am not the same person that I was only a year ago, interesting characters are not static either.
Clive Barker possesses an amazing imagination, but he also has the ability to communicate his ideas to others..... and THAT truly makes him a master of the art.
Rating: 5
Summary: The alpha is the omega
Comment: Is this book a rewriting or a perversion of the Gospels and the Book of Revelation ? Both and neither. The story itself, the plot if you want, is beyond any telling, summarizing or even sketching. It is extremely complex and difficult - at times - to follow. Not too many notes like in Mozart, but too many characters. As a rewriting of the New Testament, a Reconciler (a Christ) has to reconcile and regenerate the five Dominions of the Universe, Imajica, creating love and prosperity. But the male God has to be destroyed - since he is an imposter - to enable the three female Goddesses he had crushed down to take over and give life a chance. He also has to be killed to open the final door for spirits situated in the first layer of this universe. The male God is a tyrant. It is his son that has to go through the process of getting him destroyed and regenerating the alpha to open the omega. This vision is entirely dominated by the female principle : three Goddesses take over ; the God's son's mother who was rapterously raped by this God is the tool used to destroy him ; this universe is composed of five dominions that are building a circle, with a sixth one for the dead that is inside this circle. This book is also a beautiful symphony of words, images, situations and symbols dedicated to love, particularly love between beings who are not supposed - by standard ethics - to love each other : homosexuals ; individuals from radically different species ; love for the destroyer and hate for the Saviour ; and yet love for the Saviour and hate for the destroyer. Love is hate and hate is love. This is achieved page after page. Any love is hate and any hate is love. Life is this constant contradiction and it is only spiritual forces inside and outside that can liberate alienated individuals and real human fate, destiny, providence and feelings. Some will say this vision of the universe is anti-christian or even anti-god. Yet this vision cannot stand and make sense if the concept of God, of a superior force, drive is not present from beginning to end in every event, development, being. This book is the most spiritual and religious book that can be found even if and even because it kills old conceptions of allmighty male gods. This book should be a must for want-to-be priests and preachers.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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Title: Weaveworld by Clive Barker ISBN: 0743417356 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Great and Secret Show: The First Book of the Art by Clive Barker ISBN: 006093316X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Everville: The Second Book of the Art by Clive Barker ISBN: 0060933151 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Thief of Always by Clive Barker ISBN: 0064409945 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Reconciliation (Imajica, Book 2) by Clive Barker ISBN: 0061094153 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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