Weaveworld by Clive Barker Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Weaveworld
Book Review: A 'rapturous' read!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
After hearing about this from a friend some years back, and while browsing my local book store, I just had to buy it to read it for myself...and what a good choice it was!
Wonderfull narrative, and a fantastic story of magic and myth, with some underlying religious parallels. (Look harder!).
Seer-riously recommended (groan!)
Book Review: Quite possibly the best book I've ever read.
Summary: 5 Stars
After listening to my Dad rant on for months about "Weaveworld" I eventually bought it just to shut him up....Anyway, I was intrigued to find out how there could be a world inside a carpet. (It seemed a bit preposterous!) Although it has been a long time since I read it, it still sticks in my mind as being a fantastic story and wonderfully entertaining. I was forced to swallow my pride and tell my Dad that he was right. It is a brilliant book. Since then I have read several other Clive Barker novels. This is clearly the best. Go on. Buy it. Now. You know you want to.Book Review: A lyrical doorway to the imagintaion.
Summary: 5 Stars
When we first open the pages of weaveworld we are greeted with an obsorbing opening "nothing ever begins" and from then on we are brought with Cal Mooney on a quest that we all share in our hearts. We find the character so close to our own hearts that we often feel like it is us there on the printed page and not a fictitious character. Suzanna is the typical modern woman, whom we all know in a part of our lives, but the most beautiful thing about this book is the discription of the characters, whether it is Cal, Mimi or Immacolata and her sisters. We can taste the dread of these characters and rejoice in their triumphs. We fall in love with the likes of Jericho and hate Shadwell because not only of the responses of the characters to them, but the lyrics used in this magnificent piece of prose let us not only make our own assumptions of their characters and their flaws, we also see true sufferring and the range and depth of the human spirit,through the mediums of love, hate and religion and belief. this is an incredible book, that deserves countless re-readings, purely because in every re-reading (that I have done, and there has been plenty)we find an new layer of fabric, a new thread of light and a new decoration of emotion that we missed previously. Rich and diverse with plot and imagination, Weaveworld is a masterpiece of the English language, of the triumph of a daring novelist who pushes us to the edge of our imaginations and forces us to watch. Utterly brilliant and beautiful,Weaveworld should be compulsory reading for all those who love the language of the mind.Book Review: Written by a magician.
Summary: 5 Stars
Pure Magic!As Cal Mooney feels in the story, you are left longing to find your own Weaveworld. Fortunately Barker manages to transport you to right into his creation with convincing results.
Take your time over this book.....give your imagination space to keep up with Barker's glorious inspiration.
Book Review: "That which can be imagined need never be lost..."
Summary: 5 Stars
...and your imagination will never want to lose the excellence of this book. I have just finished reading Weaveworld for the third time and still find myself at a loss for words to capture its brilliance. Really, it defies explanation. Barker has created what I consider to be one of his greatest novels, heck! it's almost THE greatest novel. Its immensity allows its creator to use every aspect of great story telling to leave you feeling like you've just experienced something divine. It is an epic adventure of monumental proportions into a great secret world called 'The Fugue', that has been hidden away in order to elude its notorious enemies. Following the exploits of the two main characters, Cal and Suzanna, it tells us how they unravel (literally) the secrets behind the Weaveworld. This brings them into contact with some of Barkers most timeless and unforgettable characters, more notably so Immacolata and her side-kick the shifty salesman Shadwell. Mysterious, magical, loveable and terrifying - this book has it all. I particulaly love this book because of 'The Orchard of Lemuel Lo', with its entertaining magic and Jude Pears. A part of the book Clive Barker based on a early personal experience. It's just such a great chapter, magical in its peculiarities and believable by its subtlety. There are moments of exquisite tenderness and poetry in this book and moments that will have you practically tearing the page to turn it and find the answers to the many questions Barker poses throughout. The story will take you beyond reality, beyond fiction, beyond poetry and beyond fantasy to deliver you to an ambience that will intice, elate and overwhealm you. You will truly wish the story to never end, which in a way it never does - you have to experience it to understand. Suffice it to say Weaveworld is Heaven of a different form, only read it if you have plenty of breath to catch, tears to cry and imagination to be inspired, stretched and truly amazed.