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Dazzling metaphysical epic-adventure as Barker surpasses his previous ground-breaking work (The Great and Secret Show, 1989, etc.) to reconfigure the Fall and to imagine a modern-day attempt to reverse it. A complex cosmology underpins the vigorous, at times horrific, action here: ``Imajica'' is the known universe of five ``Dominions,'' or parallel worlds, four ``reconciled'' but the fifth, Earth, ``unreconciled''--unaware of the other four, of the tyrannical ``Autarch'' who rules them, and of the ``God Hapeximendios,'' who oversees all five (and who wrested ``His'' power from the ``Goddesses'' of old). Periodically, Hapeximendios has sent His ``sons''--including Christ--to attempt to unite, by magical rites, the Fifth Dominion to the others. The last attempted ``Reconciliation'' ended in catastrophe--an invasion of Earth by hellish powers--and today magic has been nearly eradicated from Earth by a ``Society'' that alone knows of the Imajica and of the catastrophe. The densely woven story here opens with a jealous man venturing into London's dankest slum to hire an assassin to kill his estranged wife, Judith; the assassin turns out to be a ``mystif,'' a fabulous creature from the Second Dominion, capable of appearing as the erotic ideal of any who behold it. As the mystif hunts Judith, it in turn is hunted by Judith's former lover, ``Gentle,'' who in time learns that he is the new ``Reconciler''- -and the mystif his long-forgotten servant. Undertaking dangerous, splendor-filled journeys through the other Dominions, Gentle and the mystif fall in love, marry, and encounter numerous fantastic creatures and, finally, death; later, Gentle helps dethrone the Autarch, learns the chilling secret of his and Judith's origin, helps free the Goddesses and slay God, and, back on Earth, inspires the destruction of the Society and undertakes Reconciliation--with hell-borne, then heaven-sent, results. An astonishing feat of the imagination, immensely engrossing despite its demanding--at times indulgent--length, running riot with ideas, fantastical inventions, graphic sex and violence, soul- terrors, and emotional and intellectual resonances. Barker's best yet. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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"Barker's most ambitious work to date...rapturously full of emtions." -- L.A. Life
"Exhilarating...[a] masterpiece." -- USA Today
"Mesmerizing invention." -- Publishers Weekly
"Spellbinding." -- The Atlanta Journal
"Wonderfully entertaining...Clive Barker is a magician of the first order." -- New York Daily News
"[A] dazzling metaphysical epic-adventure...An astonishing feat of the imagination...Barker's best yet." -- Kirkus Review --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"Exhilarating...[a] masterpiece." -- USA Today
"Mesmerizing invention." -- Publishers Weekly
"Spellbinding." -- The Atlanta Journal
"Wonderfully entertaining...Clive Barker is a magician of the first order." -- New York Daily News
"[A] dazzling metaphysical epic-adventure...An astonishing feat of the imagination...Barker's best yet." -- Kirkus Review --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Overlong. Boring.,
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This review is from: Imajica (Paperback)
What a disappointment. Barker's work has gone seriously downhill since the masterwork of Weaveworld. Now he seems more interested in filling up lots of pages with lots of words, and lots of phoney New Age pseudo-mysticism.Can the author of this bloated monstrosity be the author of Weaveworld, and the Books of Blood? Alas, yes.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Never got it,
This review is from: Imajica (Hardcover)
The title says it all.I still have not received this book after 1 month. I have to write 20 words for this to work so there you go.
1.0 out of 5 stars
One of few books I chose not to finish (and waste more time),
By Justyna N. (Hamilton, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Imajica (Hardcover)
This book started off intriguing, I kept waiting for it to go somewhere, but it was just one weird thing after another (like another reviewer said "weirdness for weirdness' sake") without real cohesion. Half-way through I was very frustrated, and by the time I was 3/5 done, I finally realized that this author must be either a raving atheist or just doesn't know what 'god' means because he deals with a god as if this being had no higher power at all (I won't say more to avoid a spoiler). It was so ridiculous and tedious and exasperating that I rolled my eyes very hard and decided not to waste any more time on this book. I didn't care what happened at all.
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