Weaveworld by Clive Barker Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Weaveworld
Book Review: Brilliant! Masterfully done!
Summary: 5 Stars
My first book by him and I can assure you that Clive Barker is a master story teller with a privileged imagination that leads you to the distant reaches of the mind and brings you back anew.Barker mixes de Sade, Poe and Carroll to bring us the incredible story of the Fugue, a magical realm where harm is but a shadow and miracles are the regular coin, a world whose people were once hunted down by an unnamable creature called the Scourge and so had to find refuge in a magical carpet of complex geometrical designs, forever secure in and endless dream of frozen time. Until one day, that last guardian of the carpet dies.
Barker introduces us to a wide arrange of characters with rich personalities and their own personal problems. We have the chance to met Cal, the melancholic poet/dreamer; Susana, the last link between the salvation of the Fugue or its eternal destruction; Immacolata, the mysterious wraith; Shadwel, perhaps the most twisted and corrupted character I've read about in what goes of this year; And my personal favorite, Hobart, the control freak with a disturbed mind tormented by existentialism.
The most interesting premise about this book is the wide arrange of mysteries left without clarification at the end of the book: What is the Scourge and the ruins it guards in the unfathomable deepness of the dessert? Who is Hobart? Why that blind fanaticism replaced by a sudden sense of humility? From where did the Scourge and the Seerkind come? The reader is left alone to ponder at the questions, and Mr. Barker doesn't seem to be ready to spill out the answers entirely, so your guess is as good as mine's.
That which can be imagined need not be forgotten!
Book Review: By far, Barker's best
Summary: 5 Stars
That's all I need to say. You can read the other reviews, and you can read the synopsis..... but you should really read the book, it's truly remarkable. Unlike anything he's written. I would love to see Spielberg make a film of it.Book Review: Description to expand the mind
Summary: 5 Stars
The world Barker creates in this book becomes more interesting than the characters themselves, which makes that world fascinating since the characters are addictive. His descriptive language somehow doesn't drag at all. If you think you have seen the limits of the imagination, read this book. He's reached beyond that limit and grabbed an idea of great quality.Book Review: Fall into the rapture of Weaveworld
Summary: 4 Stars
Cal Mooney looks into a carpet and in a split second, realizes that all his childhood dreams and fantasies were true. He's drawn into this magical carpet world which has awoken, and in doing so, has attracted the attention of the powerful evil forces that seek to destroy it.I was completely captivated by this story, drawn in from page 1 and kept rapt until the last line. I can't say much about character development, which is usually my #1 interest as a reader, because I was too busy being swept along into this magical world that Barker created. Not a short book, I wasn't aware of the length because I was so involved in the storyline and rooting every step of the way for the survival of this magical world.
Book Review: Fantastic Imagination
Summary: 4 Stars
Having never read a Clive Barker book, I decided to check this out when I found it on a sale rack at the local bookstore. Wow! Not what I expected from him at all. This book was far from the dark horror works that he's known for. More like a present day fantasy world, the universe that he creates is saturated with a mystic feel that makes you look deeper into your own reality. I was completely impressed by his imagination. In fact, that's all I could think of while I read this book. Even secondary characters feel so real that you can't help but genuinely care about them. As for the primary characters, they felt like neighbors after I'd read this book. I was very impressed and have recently purchased several other books by Mr. Barker. I haven't read them yet but am sure that I will enjoy the creativity that he so deftly conveys with the printed word.