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- From: gdg019@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre)
- Subject: Re: Books of Blood
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- References: <1992Nov16.205644.590@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Nov18.134519.9789@csd.uwe.ac.uk> <Bxx8An.EtL@ncifcrf.gov>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:07:30 GMT
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- In article <Bxx8An.EtL@ncifcrf.gov> diachun@fcs260c.ncifcrf.gov (Justin Diachun) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.134519.9789@csd.uwe.ac.uk> sj_hawki@csd.uwe.ac.uk (SJ Hawkins) writes:
- >>I don't know where 'In the Flesh' comes in the series ,but I have read all
- >> six volumes of the Books of Blood, generally I thought that most of the
- >>stories were excellent and showed a lot of imagination. Good stories include '
- >>The Midnight Meat Train', and 'In the Hills,the Cities' as well as lots of
- >> others that I can't remember. I was disappointed with some of the stories
- >>though, but that series has turned me into a Clive Barker fan.
- >
- >I only read the first 3 so far, and I also liked "Midnight Meat
- >Train", and also "Dread", "Jacqueline Ess", and many others.
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- I thought they were excellent. In The Hills, The Cities; The Yattering
- And Jack (which Barker also wrote as a play, too); Jaqueline Ess; and
- the one about the man racing against the Devil were better than the
- two novels I've read of his (Cabal, and Weaveworld). I feel his main
- weakness tends to be in his endings (oo-er). He just can't get a closure
- his novels, which he has no problems with in Books Of Blood. Just an
- opinion... Rid.
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