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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. In Galilee, Clive Barker attempted to mix a passionate love story with an epic adventure and a dash of the supernatural. Unfortunately, his success was only minimal. The characters were flat and unable to entice much attachment from the reader. The love between Rachel and Galilee seemed forced-the effect of intense lust rather than passion and adoration. The epic story of the two families was interesting, though some loose threads were left in a faintly masked opening for a sequel. However, above all else, the supernatural dash was the most disappointing. Throughout the book, the writer claims that he wishes he could share knowledge with us so frightening, ground-shattering, and sky-collapsing that hearing just the most superficial details would drive us instantaneously mad. So he doesn't share any of it. Come on! Titillate my sanity just a little! (  )The_Hibernator | Dec 1, 2008 |   I ended up liking this book although throughout the book I had my doubts. I'm getting used to Clive Barker's writing style I guess. It felt like he would set himself in one of the character's storylines so well and we'd be off and running and I couldn't stop reading. And then he would cut into it with another seemingly endless narrative that slowed it down and frustrated me to almost skipping paragraphs, wanting to get back to the story. The end did tie up loose ends, but it wasn't the ending that he aluded to throughout the book. So it was a little bit of a let down in a way. But like I said, I did like it and wanted to have more of the storytelling. I will read more Clive Barker books - I'm not turned off, but I just wish he had an editor that might cut through some of the rhetoric. (  )whitetara | Nov 21, 2007 | One of my favorite Clive Barker books. And one of the only family sagas and romance books that I love. Probably because he so expertly mixed it with fantasy, horror, the supernatural and legends. (  )Thalia | Apr 5, 2006 | 0.038 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0061092002, Mass Market Paperback)Over many years and many books, Clive Barker has earned a reputation as the thinking person's horror writer. His novels have mixed fantasy, psychology, and sheer creepiness in almost equal quantities, and while the gore quotient remains relatively low, the tension always runs high. In Galilee, however, Barker soft-pedals the ghoulish in favor of the gothic. His novel (or as the author would have it, "romance") tells the tale of two warring families caught up in a disastrous web of corruption, illicit sexuality, and star-crossed love, with a soupçon of the supernatural thrown in as well. On one side are the wealthy Gearys--a fictional stand-in for the Kennedys--and on the other are the Barbarossas, a mysterious black clan that has been around since the time (quite literally) of Adam. Galilee chronicles the twisted course of this centuries-old family feud, which centers around the magical Barbarossa matriarch Cesaria and her son Galilee. Indeed, it's the latter figure--one part Heathcliff to one part Christ--whose relationship with the Geary women sets a match to the entire powder keg of hostility and resentment. Mixing standard clichés of romance with his own peculiarly deep-fried version of the Southern gothic, Baker has come up with an intelligent and shamelessly amusing potboiler.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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