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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780061094156
ISBN number: 0061094153
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 544
Printing Date: June 01, 1995
Publishing house: HarperTorch
Release Date: April 20, 1995
Sale Popularity Level: 118544
Studio: HarperTorch
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The magical tale of ill-fated lovers lost among worlds teetering on the edge of destruction, where their passion holds the key to escape.
There has never been a book like Imajica. Transforming every expectation offantasy fiction with its heady mingling of radical sexuality and spiritual anarchy, it has carried its millions of readers into regions of passion and philosophy that few books have even attempted to map. It's an epic in every way; vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. A book of erotic mysteries and perverse violence. A book of ancient, mythological landscapes and even more ancient magic.
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I was looking forward to purchasing this item, but after reading L. Farster's review, I decided to do a bit of research. Like L. Farster, I discovered that The Reconciliation (Imajica, Book 2) is not "new" book, but rather that the original Imajica (I have the hardcover from '91) has been split into two books. Thanks, L. Farster, and yes, Amazon.com should make more it clear!
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I love Clive Barker's work. But I feel Decieved because I have read this book before, when it was just one book. You should make this clear to your customers. I will be more careful subsequent time.
I loved the book the very first time but I am not going to buy the very first half again. How disappointing it was not a totally new story about the same Imajica.
Or am I wrong? I don't think so.
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Let me start off by saying that I absolutely LOVE Clive Barker. He comes second only to Anne Rice on my list of favorites. He is the master of comteporary erotic fantasy fiction and everytime you open one of his books you can't help getting sucked in.
Imajica is one of my ultimate Clive Barker favorites. The book starts off with a theory about love stories: there can only ever be two lovers, not three. Therefore, it is no surprise when we learn that two men are in love with the same woman and one of them has decided to have her killed. He instantly regrets his hasty decision and goes to his rival, asking him to stop the assassin.
Zacharias Fury, artist and womanizer extordianare, agrees to stop the assasin and find Jude (the woman these two men are in love with). He succeeds in saving her from the greatest assassin of all time -- a creature from another realm who can shapeshift into whatever his "customer" desires. This creature is the ultimate fantasy -- have sex with it and it will be whoever you want, WHATEVER you want. And that's not all. You want someone killed? The shapeshifer Pi will get it done.
::SPOILER:: The shapeshifter's work is not done, however. After an argument with Jude, Z. Fury returns to his small hotel room and is preparing for a miserable night's sleep when there's a knock on his door and he opens it to find Jude standing there. As he and Jude make sensual love, the phone rings, and Fury answers it to find . . . . JUDE (gasp!) on the other end.
This is possibly one of the funniest parts of the two part novel. You will aboslutely fall in love with the characters of Pi, Fury, and Jude. And I promise, Zacharias Fury WILL travel to another world -- hence the title Imajica -- and free the poor imprisoned goddesses trapped there.
Clive Barker says this story is an allegory about Christ. See if you can find the similarities.
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This book starts of very well, with lots of interesting idea's which you hope exspect to be explained more fully as you read on.
However the deeper you get into the book the more you notice how half baked it all seems, jumping from one outlandish idea to another, and contradicting itself at every turn (one example is: 'nothing disturbed her from this sleep, not even dreams' and then in the subsequent sentance 'she was awoken from whatever dream she was having') it is full of contradictions which often made me shake my head in disbelief.
You are led to beleive that what the imagica 'is' will be explained in the fullness of time, but the conclusion to the story was the biggest flop in a book ive ever read, I wont give anything away, suffice to say that the imagica is never explained, I dont think the author even had an idea to start with.
The way men are constantly refered to as the 'destroyers' and women as something so much better is strange to start with, but as the author continues to press his 'point' home it gets bewildering, boring, and then quite worrying (does he hate his own sex so much he has to put them down in every other sentance?)
I think if Mr Barker had taken more time to develop his idea's and set the story out across more books (I never complain about buying a story that is set across 3 or even 6 different books!) it could of been a great and interesting tale.
Sadly it is a mix of half baked mix philosophy, religion and magic, in places it found it so boring I had to put it down and could only read small chunks at a time, by the time I was nearing the end I was skimming pages of seemingly pointless drivel trying to get to somthing substantial, which alas never came.
I cant recomend this as a purchase, rent it from the library but dont waste your money.
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Simply put this is Clive's best book not to mention the best book I've ever read. I read it when it very first came out and I was so impressed I began reading other Clive Barker books. He is a wonderful author. I recommend you read as much of his stuff as you can. He has an imagination that is "out of this world"!
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