Wow, looks like it will be iconic! I registered interest ... hopefully soon enough.
Wow, looks like it will be iconic! I registered interest ... hopefully soon enough.
“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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I can only hope that this means Paul has broken the ice with Neil Gaiman and other books are to follow. I'd love to see Stardust and Good Omens.
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I am absolutely thrilled that Paul and his team are working with Neil Gaiman. I hope this is the first of many joint projects between this publisher and this author.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
Same.
More Gaiman books would re-spark my interest in what Paul's been doing (just personal taste with what's been offered - not my cup of tea.)
Of course, I have a serious love/hate fascination with American Gods. I really REALLY wanted to like this book when Gaiman first started talking about it years and years ago, and after it came out, I just wasn't a fan. I even tried many years later (was it an age thing? Better appreciated when I was older?) and still was very meh on it.
I'm embarrassed by how many different copies of this book I do have though, especially considering it's one of my least liked Gaiman books.
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I found American Gods to be difficult reading but the full cast audiobook made me appreciate the story.
Kind of on the fence about the numbered but as someone who's not on the train anymore I guess I'll wait and see what happens.
A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.
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I've been reading IMAJICA for the first time, switching between Kindle and dipping into my AE. Yes, it feels good to actually read a Suntup. It look me a while to get into... it's taking me much longer to read than THE STAND my first time, even though it's shorter, it feels longer with a much more extensive vocabulary and a poetic writing style that took me a bit to really grab onto. But now at 75% done this is probably one of my favorite books ever. Truly a beautiful book and one I may have never conquered if not for the imposing presence of the Suntup on my shelf. It's one of those books where I'm just absolutely floored at the author's imagination and ability to tie so many threads together.
Don’t know if you’ve read the Abarat books by Barker, but it’s similar in that his imagination of the different worlds is amazing as is his ability in making you see it as you read it. I know they are supposed to be YA books, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed them.
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That's pretty much spot on when it comes to Barker. He's very fecund when it comes to places, characters and events, and he has has little restraint in curtailing his imagination. Imajica is both the best and worst of that impulse. It makes for a long, rich, meandering novel, but it's ultimately satisfying and impressively crafted. His prose is very readable as well.
Probably my favourite Barker work, despite its self-indulgence. Certainly the Cilver-Barkerest Clive Barker novel. And the Suntup AE is an absolute joy to read.
HBJ
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I haven't read Imajica but yeah that fits my experience with a lot of Barker novels... Weaveworld was great but it was a bit tough to get through.
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Unfortunately, for me, Barker peaked in 1994 with the wonderful Y/A Thief of Always - everything prior is fantastic. Everville tried to sustain The Art series in 1994, but fell short of its amazing predecessor, and then I thought Barker might be back with Coldheart Canyon in 2001 (a truly underrated horror novel). The Abarat series is good, but hard to judge because of its incompleteness. I feel for Clive, as his health has not been good, and I feel it impedes his ability to work, but then I realize that he undertakes too many things at once and in the end fails to serve any of them. Turns out that King was wrong about Barker being "the future of horror."
Barker jumped the shark so long ago, it doesn't even seem to matter.
IM LOVIN Blackwater.. can't stop. So good.
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Jeffrey Alan Love is an inspired choice for the illustrations for Schindler's Ark. The stark haunting & foreboding quality his illustrations matches well the subject matter of the novel. I've been a fan of his for a while and highly recommend his own graphic novels and sketchbooks. I had been thinking I'd pickup an AE of this, but may wait to see if there is a numbered available come Saturday.
'chaos, mr. who, that is our mode and modus'
352 AE
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I'm out unless D.B. Cooper's skeleton comes down clutching a bag full of money on a parachute in my backyard after being held up by the trade winds for the last 51 years.
I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...
7 numbered still available. Get 'em while they last.
edit about a minute later: All gone.
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."