Name: Imajica
Rating: 3.94 (25 reviews)
ISBN: 9780061053719

Clive Barker

Imajica

Elescia Jones

“I count the years I had with her as the best of my life. But of course the best can't go on forever, can they, or how are they the best?” He drank again. 

But he knew he'd yearn for England sooner or later, and a yearning man could be cruel.

"He's determined to hold on till spring. One more spring, he keeps saying. He never gave a fuck about crocuses till now." Clem smiled. "You know what's wonderful?" he said. "I’ve fallen in love with him all over again." 

“And now I'm going to lose him, just when I realize what he means to me. You won't make that mistake, will you?" 

"That's because we're the more tragic of the sexes," Chester returned. "God, woman, can't you see how we 

"Is there any particular reason, or is it just free-form suffering?”

"We're all sealed up," Klein said. "Nothing can get in." 

," Klein interrupted, pronouncing the word with a drunken ripeness. "Oh, you bitch about it, but you love it. Go on admit it. You love it.”

“So all men really want is to get fucked, is that it?" Jude said. "Or are you just talking personally?"

This brought a ripple of laughter from those who'd given up their chitchat to watch the fireworks.

"Not literally," Klein spat back."You're not listening to me."

“I’m listening. You're just not making any sense." 

"No, listen!" Klein said, teeth clenched. "Im telling God's honest fucking truth here. Why do you think men invented the church, huh? Huh?" 

His bombast had infuriated Jude to the point where she refused to reply. He went on, unperturbed, talking pedantically, as if to a slow student. 

"Men invented the church so they could bleed for Christ. So they could be entered by the Holy Spirit. So they could be saved from being sealed up.”

Bedrooms were only ever this hot for sickness or love…for the sweating out of obsession or contagion. It didn’t always work, of course, in either case, but at least in love failure had its satisfactions.

Despite his intent, tears sprang to his eyes, and he went into her embrace, both of them sobbing freely, like enemies joined by a common loss or lovers about to be parted. Or else souls who could not remember whether they were lovers or enemies and were weeping at their own confusion.

Chris Hilyer

Do I dare rate this five stars without grasping everything going on here? Yes, I dare. I feel like this one's going to be a reread.

Barker's writing is so smooth, but I still found this one to be a bit long. Regardless of my endurance issues, I can't seem to knock anything about this book. I ended up reading it in pieces with a few other books sprinkled in the middle. I think that might have diminished my experience. 

I hesitate to recommend any of Barker's books to friends because of his edginess and eroticism. He is also so genre bending he never settles into my perception of someone else's taste.

Not quite as engrossing as when I first read it, but it’s a fine work of fantasy, even if overlong and aimless at times.

Christian von Schack

Traci Wilbanks

Read this for the second time. I can't believe how much I forgot (which is hilarious if you've read the book)!! At over 700 pages, this story is well worth your time and effort. I had a hard time putting it down and would often think about it trying to find time to sneak in a few pages.

Sean West

A book of revelations. A seamless tapestry of erotic passion, thwarted ambition and mythic horror. Clive Barker takes us on a voyage to worlds beyond our knowledge, but within our grasp.

John Manoogian III

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.

The Reconciliation

Imajica II

Clive Barker creates an unforgettable realm, the Imajica--five dominions of which one, the Earth, is isolated from the others. Formerly published as one volume, Imajica is now available as Books I and II. The stunning new repackage will appeal to old fans of the book and will draw new readers to this classic work.

Imajica

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