Weaveworld - Clive Barker

Weaveworld is a stunning blend of literatures, echoing classical, biblical and Shakespearean works yet fusing them together to produce a masterpiece of contemporary fantasy fiction. Barker is also renowned for his film production and so it is of little surprise after reading this novel that I discovered he also produced Hellraiser which is distinctly similar in style to Weaveworld. The attraction of this is that it is like no other fantasy novel I have encountered and, despite being in a different style, it puts Terry Pratchett to shame. The sheer quality of the language is a joy to read, veering from the poetic sublime to prose that simply begs you to devour page after ...  Read the complete review

ISBN 0-671-61268-9 By Clive Barker. I read this book some years ago now and, unusually for me, in about two days. To use that somewhat hackneyed phrase, once I started I couldn't put it down. So what is it about? Essentially it tells the story of the Seerkind, an ancient race of people who possess the gift of rapture. What is rapture? Rapture is Barker's word to describe various forms of magic which members of the Seerkind are able to perform. At some time before the start of the story, the Seerkind have come under attack from ancient and very deadly force called the Scourge and in an attempt to escape its deadly attentions, ...  Read the complete review

I first started reading Clive Barkers books because I had read all of Stephen King’s. Weaveworld was the first one I read and it was the perfect introduction to his work. Although this book is more about magic than horror if you have not read Clive Barker’s books before you should be warned that there are, in places, some very graphic depictions of violence and sex. This book is about two races of people, Humans and Seerkind. The Seerkind had always lived in a land just beyond the limits of human perception and were a magical race, sometimes coming amongst humans to work their magic. They were very afraid of any enemy called the Scourge that ...  Read the complete review

I have had three copies of this book - count them 3! The first copy came from my brother, who is his adolescent years took all the tried and tested routes to flout parental guidance, buying gory horrorbook after gory horrbook. Weaveworld found its way into my hands on a wet Sunday afternoon back in 1989, and from the first page, I found I could not let go. The simplicity of the story's setting in a back street in Liverpool draws the reader in, involving us in Cal's daily life - his humdrum job, his father's obsession with racing pigeons, Cal's own childhood fascination with the train timetables he memorised with the track at ...  Read the complete review

I loved this book! It covers every single thing that any great book should, and I have never before found a book like it. It starts out unlike many other books, in an interesting insight. This automatically pulls the reader in to find out more. It is also set up unlike those I am familiar with. We are first introduced to Calhoun Mooney, the what I feel main character for the most part of the novel. He stumbles upon a secret that should never have been found, and especiailly not by a human. He starts out on an interesting and disturbing adventure to save the weave from the enemies that set out to destroy it. He is joined by ...  Read the complete review