Clive Barker is a genius...go with him, wherever he takes you, and be prepared for a journey unlike any other. ( )

It is rare for me that you find a book, especially one as epic as this , that you don't want to end. Every story needs a beginning a middle and an end after all and I personally think a good ending makes the book, but the magnificent journey Clive Barker takes you through just wasn't enough for me . Don't get me wrong the ending was everything I'd hoped for and more , but I just needed the story to go on , he had me hooked on the whole Imajica tale and I wasn't prepared to let go. The first time I read it I finished it in 3-4 days ,reading during breakfast , on the train to work , during breaks and lunch, on the way home , after dinner and before bed. From the first few chapters the book just grabs your attention and the characters are so well formed you get an instant connection that isn't lost throughout the book.

Having now read the book at least 7-8 times since the first it has never grown dull and couldn't be more highly recommended by me. The only downside to me is that I often muse I'd like to read some of his other recommended books , especially the highly thought of Weaveworld, but unfortunately when I have these thoughts I inevitably pick up my severely battered copy of this and allow myself to be once again drawn into the wonderful and seducing tale of the Imajica. ( )

Although Imajica is a tome of a novel, the story itself is as good as almost any I have ever read. With magnificent settings and all sorts of bizarre creatures, it was definitely an enjoyable read. Clive Barker does tend to play up a theme of love and libido quite a bit too much for my liking, which at times I thought took away from some of the story.

This edition comes with a glossary of pictures and sketches in the back which added a bit more culture and mystery to its story. I also noticed a similarity between this novel and Roger Zelazny's Amber series, which is another enormous epic written about 15 years prior to Imajica and probably a good bet if you are looking for a similar style of story.

Good for any age-group I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and am definitely interested in reading more by Barker in the future. ( )

Spectacularly good. A fresh fantasy with a well thought out cosmology and a very interesting set of worlds. Barker creates a setting that's at once enticing and foreboding and populates it with a variety of heroes and powers, humans and monstrosities, each with their own very believable drives and failings.

There are worlds beyond Earth--four of them, in fact--separated from Earth by a magical void full of ravenous monsters. Three of them are under the control of a cruel Autarch, who rules from his huge city of Yzordderrex. God seems to have walled himself away in the last of them. Two centuries ago, the greatest magicians of all of these worlds tried to join Earth to them, and caused a catastrophe when they failed. Now an opportunity to try again has come, but what's worse: failure, or success? ( )