Do not Start Your Barker Experience with this Book, but Still an Enjoyable, Satirical Read.

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	• Mister B. Gone Clive Barker HarperCollins, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 68 reviews view larger image
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Do not Start Your Barker Experience with this Book, but Still an Enjoyable, Satirical Read.

It is hard to be impartial when it comes to Barker, for I have been a fan of his work since I was in my mid to late teens. But, I will not recommend this to first time readers of Clive's work. You won't care for Barker if you take this as an introduction. This was obviously written for longtime Barkerophiles, and I have to be thankful for it. It is filled with satirical whimsy and tongue-in-cheek blasphemy Clive fans will enjoy and, trust me, you won't be able to stop yourself from chuckling out loud at some sections.

Jakabok is oddly endearing or, rather, becomes so over the course of the novel. Some stunning imagery and words, as always (particularly near the end), from Barker.

Again, not a book for newcomers to Barker, but if you have read "Imagica", "Books of Bloods", "Cabal," et al., this is a read I think you will enjoy, just enter with the caveat it is not a horror novel, it is a dark satire. A comical look at a lower demon's life, and his travels with a beloved fellow demon friend, after the lower demon is accidentally dragged from the lower levels of hell and into the human world.

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imaginative & original

I very much enjoyed this story. I know of no other book that uses this "gimmick". It is definitely written in the style of Clive Barker, but has a toungue and cheek feel reminiscent of the short story "The Yattering and Jack" also by Barker. I believe this book would be a good read for both those familiar with Barker's work as well as those who are not.

If you happen to read this review first, be careful reading the others. Many reviewers have written about a key element of the book that is not revealed until the end and without giving any spoiler warnings. This particular element is part of what makes this book so original.

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Idiot reviewers

I've read many of Barker's novels, and this has been a fun ride. Aside from The Thief of Always or his short fiction, it has been his easiest and most fun story to read.

Several reviews have complained about different typographical errors in the book. If any of them would actually use their brain they would realize that the book is coming strait from the mouth of a demon. It would make sense that the demon has not mastered the english language.

The audio book is better

I know that the written version is full of grammatical errors. May I suggest the audio book? I just finished it and I can tell you that the acting from the reader is really good and I think it makes it a better book that way. And you wont get distracted with the errors in the text.

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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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