Imajica - Clive Barker

Having just read 'Imajica' for a second time I was left realising that in the first read, I'd missed the point. Many people who enjoy Barker's early and more horror orriented books find this work confusing, incomprehensible or just too weird, so my mission here is to try and shed a different light on it. The plot: This makes a lot more sense on a second reading, cos you know who everyone is. On a first reading, you are plunged in to a host of strange characters, and you find your way as they do - I shall try not to damage the impact. We start in London, with some of the key protagonists. Estabrook, who is trying to hire an assasin to kill his ...

Imajica is a tale of purest fantasy. Set in modern day earth, it is a story about the five Dominions, four reconciled, and on, the earth cut off from them. The main characters are Gentle, a master forger, Judith, a beautiful woman ( always one of those, isn't there) and Pie'oh'Pah, a very mysterious assasin. Their quest takes them on a great journey through the five Dominions, and on to the unknown First Dominion. Their task, to keep the earth from becoming 'reconciled' with the other four Dominions. An epic volume, full of imagination and magic, Clive Barker reinvents the entire concept of fantasy in this, one of his greatest ...

Clive Barker's 'Imajica' is one of the biggest books I've read in years. At close to a thousand pages, to read it is a major commitment of time, but well worth it. The novel starts in contemporary London, where a deranged husband is about to hire an assassin to kill his soon to be ex-wife. The main characters of the book are the target - Rachael, the man who saves her from the assassin, Gentle, and the assassin itself, Pie. In Barker's world, our earth is one of five dominions, alternative worlds four of which are connected by simple mists, while the fifth, Earth, is cut off and can only be reached or left through dangerous methods. ...