galilee
The Pyramids of Xuxux
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Post by galilee on Aug 20, 2006 15:30:33 GMT -5
Although I love the Abarat books, my favorites are Imajica, Great & Secret Show, Everville and Coldheart Canyon. Anyone else here read his "other" stuff?
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Post by Abaratian on Aug 22, 2006 20:07:55 GMT -5
Really? I like his young adults books a lot better. I've read those, though. They're really good, but Abarat and The Thief of Always have a special place in my heart.
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Post by malingomango on Jul 29, 2007 7:24:11 GMT -5
i havent read his other stuff? i mean, come on guys, what can top Abarat? seriously....
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barkerfreak13
The Pyramids of Xuxux
Clive is God of Horror
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Post by barkerfreak13 on Mar 16, 2008 21:45:38 GMT -5
Everything!
Especially Imajica.
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Post by malingomango on Apr 19, 2008 19:56:44 GMT -5
Everything! Especially Imajica. What's Imajica about? |
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Post by Abaratian on Jul 21, 2008 0:41:15 GMT -5
Imajica's quite good, but it was almost too upsetting for me to really love. Gentle and Pie were so sweet together, they gave me the warm and fuzzies  It's hard to explain because of the vast amounts of plot twists and information that I could potentially spoil. Basically, it's like Abarat - people from Earth find out about another world parallel to theirs and that they are connected to it - except the world is a huge dystopia. And basically they have to either save it and connect the worlds or separate the worlds and destroy it. There's so much more to it then that, and the only thing it has in common with Abarat is the whole other world idea. It's much darker than Abarat, much more sexual and graphic than Abarat, and goes deeply into philosophy, love, and religion. I personally liked Weaveworld better, because Weaveworld didn't make me cry! Anyone here read Galilee or Mister B. Gone? Galilee got bad reviews from Clive fans, but I enjoyed it. Certainly not his masterpiece, but it was still a good, interesting book. I really wish he'd write a sequel, but I have a feeling that's not going to happen. I didn't like Mister B. Gone, but I admit that it left me tossing and turning in bed at night wondering if some huge catastrophes would haunt me until I burnt the book I'm trying to think of what of his I want to read next. But it's a pain when the only selection in my bookstore is Abarat, Weaveworld, and Mister B. Gone  |
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Post by caitycat66 on Nov 16, 2009 21:10:22 GMT -5
Mr B. Gone was really good, but kinda haunting. I actually did buy my own copy, cause burning library books is generally frowned upon. I'm just waiting for an opportunity to burn it; in the mean time it's burning a hole through the floorboards of my room.
The Hell-Bound Heart was also really good, and my first taste of the horror and violence Clive Barker was capable of producing.
Abarat needs no words of praise; you've seen, you know.
Imajica was a little harder to follow, because I read it during classes and had to focus on, you know, not walking into walls and such.
Uh... The Great and Secret Show. I know it was interesting, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was about. :/
And that's it for me, so far.
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