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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780060182984
ISBN number: 0060182989
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: October 30, 2007
Publishing house: HarperCollins
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 266997
Studio: HarperCollins
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Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader—his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next—is a never-before-published memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power.
A brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the supernatural, Mister B. Gone escorts the reader on an intimate and revelatory journey to uncover the shocking truth of the battle between Good and Evil.
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Barker's latest is by far his best since SACRAMENT and is, honestly, too short by at least a hundred pages (hence, one star short of excellent).
This minor demon's memoir builds to an utterly original and clever climax that makes you look heavenward, or maybe cast a glance down at the other place, and say "I always suspected it goes down that way."
Jakabok and Quitoon's relationship echoes Dante and Virgil at times and I certainly would have enjoyed spending more time with them on their journey toward a wild and ultimate Truth.
Cheers.
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This is the very first time I've taken the trouble of submitting a review, but I just had to do so in the hopes that I could save someone some money and time!
Don't buy this book! I was very disappointed. I've read other Clive Barker books and enjoyed them (for the most part), but this one does not live up to this author's usual standard.
The professional reviewers must have been bribed to write what they did. This book is not "surprising" or "nastier". It does nothing to enlighten readers to the "mysteries within ourselves". How the Washington Post could ordain to write that it is a "subtle, surprising book" that gives us "one of the most resonant, provacative novels of his career" is beyond me.
Move on! Don't be tempted!
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It seems that there are a lot of mixed reviews of this book, and I imagine what a lot of people are missing is that this isn't a horror or suspense book - it's a grey comedy.
The narrator is completely unreliable, and at turns lovable and pathetic. He tries so hard to be bad, but we have to come to the conclusion that he's nothing but sad and lonely. The depictions of horrors and tortures are intentionally graphic, but in the silly way that a child might imagine an overly deadly scene in order to endeavor to shock an adult.
If one reads the book as a serious tale of an arch demon, it would be disappointing, but read as a character study of a deeply flawed narrator who so badly wants to be evil but simply cannot manage to overcome his desire for love and belonging, it's both sad and amusing.
Barker tantalizes you with details and emotions, he doesn't bash you over the head with them. Read with an eye for the humorous and absurd, this is a fantastic grey comedy with both soul and laughter amid the refuse and pain.
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This book is certainly not your average book. Mister B. talks directly to you throughout the whole book as if the two of you are sitting at a table having a discussion; Albeit one-sided and very demented. He interrupts his own stories to demand repeatedly to BURN THIS BOOK or he will kill you. And don't think he won't. He means it. Seriously.
There are no chapters to define different settings or trains of thought. It's just one continuous writing. Or speaking. Or... I don't know, it's so weird. He's talking to you, but it's in typed words due to the fact that he is, essentially, the book itself.
So basically, he regales you with the sordid tales of his life's journeys beginning with his abusive and unloved life in hell, to his ascent to the upper realm of Earth and his "relationships" with others on Earth, and then on to how he became stuck where he is now: In your hands. All this in exchange for your agreement to BURN THE DAMN BOOK (or him?) when he's through. After all, he knows we humans are too curious - or stupid, in his opinion - for our own good, and wouldn't just burn a book because some character in it told us to without telling us why. I mean, really... that's just absurd. Even if it is for our own good. And life.
What I liked: First, the pages of this book are beyond cool. They're made to look like old, weathered, water spotted pages and give the book a truly unique appearance. Second, the fact that the main character of the book talks directly to you is awesome. He makes you believe that he is actually looking at you from between the words on the pages and is watching every expression your face makes. It would be as if you had a demon friend from the lowest level of hell who you just happened to run in to one day and sat down to catch up with one another. You, only listening while he talks because, of course, your boring, inconsequential human life doesn't matter compared to his more intelligent, purposeful demon life.
What I didn't like: there are certain parts of the book when Mister B. has a tendency to ramble.
Last word: All in all, this book and its characters were well thought out and put together nicely. Clive Barker truly has a wild imagination and reading a book written in such a way was truly a unique experience.
Reviewed by Ceara
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I don't even know where to start. This was so awful that it was actually insulting. I know teenagers who can write better than this nonsense. I only managed to struggle through half of the book, at which point I actually threw it in the garbage - something I have never done before - secure in the knowledge that neither I nor anyone I know would ever want to waste their time on it again..
To write more would be to suggest this is even worthy of a review..
Save your money.
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