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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780060933166
ISBN: 006093316X
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: December 01, 1999
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: November 03, 1999
Sales Rank: 305006
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America.In this New York Times bestseller, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between good and evil. Carrying its readers from the first stirring of consciousness to a vision of the end of the world, The Great and Secret Show is a breathtaking journey in the company of a master storyteller.
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Rating:  - Interesting but ultimately flawed.
"The Great And Secret Show" is a novel that is at turns fascinating, horrifying, and (unfortunately) disappointing.
The first part of the novel is great, with Randolph Jaffe slowly unravelling the mysteries of the secret society called the Shoal and the pathway to the Art, a type of magic that can allow one to enter the dreams of humanity.
After discovering the power of the Nuncio and being changed (along with Fletcher) we get some great scenes showing the scope of their ... Read More
Rating: - GSS
This book drones on for a while. But, it's not bad. And if I look back I suppose it was all needed to make the reader feel closer to the characters. A good read on a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG plane ride, and I mean long, like to China, then back to America.
Rating: - Good Epic, but Loses It Towards End
Randolf Jaffe works in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha, Nebraska where he stumbles across people talking about the Art, which is something that exists in another plane of existence. He learns about Quiddity, which is called a dream sea where people float in their minds when they are born, when they fall in love for the first time and when they die. He wants to find out about this Art, so he leaves to find out more about. This leads to a huge battle between good and evil in a tiny California town where ... Read More
Rating: - Why do I read this stuff?
Like all his other books, Barker's stories stick with me and haunt my thoughts for a long time. He is a master storyteller! I always feel like I'm entering a strange dark world when I start one of his books and it takes me days after I've completed one to get back into the daylight. Fascinating. Can't take a steady diet of this author, but I do like enter his worlds every now and then.
Rating: - One of the best novels I've read
I have always enjoyed Clive Barker's writing. His writing is not necessarily "horror" in the Lovecraft sense of things. He is more mythical in his writings, and the horror that does come comes subtle and sublime. The Great and Secret Show is just that, all the myths and whispers that underline the American facade. It, and its sequel, work together to present the ideas that would happen if Carl Jung's writings became physical and tied intuitively with the United States across the decades and the peoples. ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780060933166
ISBN: 006093316X
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: December 01, 1999
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: November 03, 1999
Sales Rank: 305006
Studio: Harper Paperbacks