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KateReadsYA
The Hellbound Heart | Clive Barker
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Pickpick

Oof Frank, you horrible demonic being. That was intense but such a good story. Super fast read, I finished it in one day! Clive Barker sure knows how to write a horror story.

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Nessavamusic
The Hellbound Heart | Clive Barker
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Pickpick

The ultimate in grotesque body horror that inspired Clive Barker‘s Hellraiser movie series. Well written and truly horrifying, a must read for horror fans. 5⭐️
4 hours of reading 97 Word Search words
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KateReadsYA
The Hellbound Heart | Clive Barker

𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑'𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟.

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Lauranahe
The Damnation Game | Clive Barker
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Bailedbailed

I finally decided to DNF…I‘ve been finding reasons to not read it, which means I should stop trying and move on to something else. Maybe in a different mood it‘s be ok, but I found it boring. ☹️

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Michael_Gee
Hellbound Heart | Clive Barker
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Pickpick

A quick, sometimes beautifully written novella that contains a vast mythology. Barker‘s work is fascinating, and it is now difficult to separate it from the movie franchise it spawned. The movie varies only in a few places from the book, so it was impossible for me not to picture the actors as we read. I want to read more Barker!

TrishB Wrote some amazing books 👍🏻 10mo
Michael_Gee @TrishB I have the 3 volumes of Books of Blood as well as the Damnation Game on my shelf. What would you recommend (of those or others)? 10mo
TrishB Those are the strictly horror ones- after those he goes off more into fantasy horror- I would go with Weaveworld then The Great and Secret Show and Everville. 10mo
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Michael_Gee @TrishB 👍👍👍 thank you! 10mo
Reggie I 2nd @TrishB. One of my favorite books ever is The Great and Secret Show. Later in life Clive goes to a dentist and gets toxic shock. He spends the next 3 months in a coma and has I think 2 heart attacks. On a podcast he describes having this crazy nightmare and I thought to myself, that‘s straight out of The Great and Secret Show. 10mo
TrishB @Reggie it definitely is! 10mo
Michael_Gee @Reggie oof, scary! I will add that one to my TBR for sure. 10mo
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Reggie
Weaveworld | Clive Barker
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Thanks for the tag @Parvez I‘m going to skip 1&2. 3- In Clive Barker‘s Weaveworld there is an orchard of peaches, where they are the juiciest and get you drunk off of happiness. It‘s located in a world woven into a carpet woven by the magic of the 4 families in hopes of escaping genocide at the hands of an angel. Unfortunately the orchard burns down when Weaveworld gets infiltrated by Immacolata, and Shadwell and the gyre gets destroyed.

CarolynM Well, it sounds like it was good while it lasted…😆 10mo
Reggie @CarolynM lol, I know, I coulda left off that last sentence. 10mo
Centique Happiest peach orchard sounds like a perfect setting 🙌 darn it when you can‘t even hide in a magic carpet forever though! 10mo
Suet624 Ain‘t that always the way? 10mo
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mindduckbooks
Weaveworld | Clive Barker
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Mehso-so

Weaveworld is a fantasy epic that has great characters, exciting scenes, creative world building and much more. However, it felt too long and a little hard to get through. Check out our discussion about it on episode 8 of our podcast: https://bit.ly/3LhCzOK

KathyWheeler While I liked Weaveworld, I completely agree that it was far too long. 11mo
mindduckbooks @KathyWheeler yeah, half way through the book I gave up and only came back to it after a few month because I wanted to discuss it on the podcast :D 11mo
KathyWheeler @mindduckbooks It should have ended when the world was woven up the first time, but as I removed it, it was then unwoven and had to be rewoven a 2nd time. 11mo
mindduckbooks @KathyWheeler yeah that was a little redundant:D I actually liked the ending of the second part a lot. If they edited the book and cut it down to 50-75% of the length, I think it would be an awesome book. Also, I was really interested what they would do with the memories and what you don't remember isn't real any more. I wish that would play a bigger role in the story. 11mo
KathyWheeler @mindduckbooks I agree with everything you say here. 11mo
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mindduckbooks
Hellbound Heart | Clive Barker
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Pickpick

Short, thrilling, exciting and filthy. One of my favorite horror stories that started a movie franchise with 9 nonsense sequels with another one coming out just recently. Check out the Mind books podcast ep. 21 where we had a lot of fun discussing this book as well as ALL the movies that I unfortunately watched: https://bit.ly/3BpeXFg

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JacintaMCarter
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Mehso-so

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This was a fun read, but it felt more like fan-fiction than an original novel. The build-up was good, but I rolled my eyes when they revealed the “big bad.” And the fight at the end felt like it was inspired by the battle at the end of the Harry Potter series.

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TracyReadsBooks
Abarat | Clive Barker
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Mehso-so

What an odd, quirky confection of a story which is very much, as reviewers have said, a cross between Alice in Wonderland & The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe with emphasis on the weird, head scratching wackiness of Wonderland. As for a plot, a girl travels from her town in Minnesota to a fantastical archipelago where each island is a different time of day. There, she runs into a great evil & learns she‘s the key to whatever is coming next.