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The Great and Secret Show by: Clive Barker |
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Binding: Audio Cassette Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781559941617 ISBN: 1559941618 Label: Harper Audio Manufacturer: Harper Audio Number Of Items: 2 Publication Date: 1991-05 Publisher: Harper Audio Studio: Harper Audio Sales Rank: 1783917 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: In battling for "The Art"--the greatest power known to mankind and a doorway to the dream-life of the species, two bitter enemies prepare to fight through their children--until their children fall in love. 2 cassettes. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Interesting but ultimately flawed."The Great And Secret Show" is a novel that is at turns fascinating, horrifying, and (unfortunately) disappointing. The first part of the novel is great, with Randolph Jaffe slowly unravelling the mysteries of the secret society called the Shoal and the pathway to the Art, a type of magic that can allow one to enter the dreams of humanity. After discovering the power of the Nuncio and being changed (along with Fletcher) we get some great scenes showing the scope of their ... Read More: Rating: - GSSThis book drones on for a while. But, it's not bad. And if I look back I suppose it was all needed to make the reader feel closer to the characters. A good read on a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG plane ride, and I mean long, like to China, then back to America. Rating: - Good Epic, but Loses It Towards EndRandolf Jaffe works in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha, Nebraska where he stumbles across people talking about the Art, which is something that exists in another plane of existence. He learns about Quiddity, which is called a dream sea where people float in their minds when they are born, when they fall in love for the first time and when they die. He wants to find out about this Art, so he leaves to find out more about. This leads to a huge battle between good and evil in a tiny California town where ... Read More: Rating: - Why do I read this stuff?Like all his other books, Barker's stories stick with me and haunt my thoughts for a long time. He is a master storyteller! I always feel like I'm entering a strange dark world when I start one of his books and it takes me days after I've completed one to get back into the daylight. Fascinating. Can't take a steady diet of this author, but I do like enter his worlds every now and then. Rating: - One of the best novels I've readI have always enjoyed Clive Barker's writing. His writing is not necessarily "horror" in the Lovecraft sense of things. He is more mythical in his writings, and the horror that does come comes subtle and sublime. The Great and Secret Show is just that, all the myths and whispers that underline the American facade. It, and its sequel, work together to present the ideas that would happen if Carl Jung's writings became physical and tied intuitively with the United States across the decades and the peoples. ... Read More: |
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