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Post by Miss Melissa on Jan 28, 2005 15:08:11 GMT
Wow, it appears I have a stuttering problem. LOL
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Post by Pina on Jan 28, 2005 15:32:29 GMT
Too detailed?? Do tell...  Say that three times fast, Melissa!! ;D |
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Post by moby on Jan 31, 2005 12:57:22 GMT
Too detailed?? Do tell... An example - at one stage they mention a specific address the family lived at in Manchester when the brothers were boys, and it then says that some books have quoted a different house number, but the authors have double checked school records to confirm the correct address - and I'm like SO WHAT! ;D. I just think the book needs a good 'edit', it would make it more readable. I am also reading 'French Revolutions' by Tim Moore, it is about his attempt to ride the route of the 2000 Tour De France. It is very funny, and I would recommend it to anybody who likes Bill Bryson's books. |
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Post by Miss Melissa on Feb 13, 2005 18:21:01 GMT
Okay, i've pulled a switch on myself, instead of my romance or action murder/mystery tomes I've been occupying myself with (I started reading when I was 4, geek that I am) I have picked up Barker again. Oh!!! Two thumbs up for this one....This is the wildest, craziest exciting book i've read in a while. Coldheart Canyon [/size][/center] by Clive Barker A must read for anyone who is not offended by his style of writing. It will bring you to the brink and back again. Very climatic, the be all and end all of horror. It starts out slow, but after the characters are built up, it's a wild roller coaster ride of "what's going to happen next" Makes you wonder about the decadent lifestyles of the rich and famous from the past, what were they realllllly like? It will have you looking over your shoulder and being very careful when you're alone in the dark..... Here's a write up from someone on the web.... Reviewed by: Ian D. 8th Oct 2002 Clive Barker has had such a long run of great books that you have to wonder when it is going to wane. The sound bite subtitle on this one put me off a little, "A Hollywood Ghost Story", yet fortunately not enough to stop me reading the book. This is another classic. Like most recent Barker it's a large tome, topping seven hundred pages, but he makes excellent use of this space. It is every bit as imaginative and enthralling as his many other excellent novels. It tells the story of a woman and her home in the Hollywood hills, nestled in Coldheart Canyon; named for the woman herself, Katya Vulpis, who is an old time movie star. The bowels of the house, and its great secret, are the incredibly decadent tiled wall tiles purchased from a group of monks in Romania. It gives power to the house, and a strange life beyond life for its devotees. A young movie star, Todd Pickett, reaching the crest of his career yet on the verge of an imagined crisis, finds himself forced into hiding in Coldheart Canyon. Where the house, and its inhabitants, worm their way into his being. This is a book as wonderfully decadent as any of Barker's earlier novels, and as ever, he does decadence in his own unique style. Characters swim in and out of the novel, which is brilliantly structured into twelve parts shared amongst these various characters. It has a lot to say about Hollywood itself, the kind of monsters who inhabit the fringes and create the illusion and aura that surrounds the place. For some it must be something of a painful read, the characters have a depth which suggests they are partly drawn from life. It has echos of both Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey and Goethe's Faust, but manages to take the ideas in wholly different directions, Barker's brilliant imagination really comes to play and he has many opportunities to really let it off its leash. Barker plays brilliantly with the characters and their conflicts with one another, they gradually change over the period of the novel, both by the events they live through and their interactions with one another. A very smooth and fluid movement throughout the story and the story hangs very strongly on the shoulders of the characters, without his strength in drawing characters he would not have been able to pull this off. A very satisfying and enjoyable read. TWO THUMBS UP! |
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Post by Miss Melissa on Feb 13, 2005 18:28:17 GMT
CAUTION:
This book is extremely explicit, please don't read it if you're offended by the blatant sexuality and disregard for "the norm" that Barker is know for writing about....
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Post by WILLOW on Feb 13, 2005 21:14:43 GMT
Hey Melissa, I am a Barker fan too. Though I haven't read this one yet. I loved Imajica and Weaveworld.
Right now I am reading The Realms of Gold by Margaret Drabble. She's a wonderful writer.
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