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- From: caedmon@cats.ucsc.edu (Axeman)
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- Subject: Re: Clive Barker: From _The_Thief_Of_Always_
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 06:02:55 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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- chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
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- >POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!!!
- >
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- >This is a description of a storm, from Barker's new book _The_Thief_Of_Always_.
- >( Harper Collins, 240 pages, $20 ).
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- >"It had more than lightning at its dark heart. It had the light rains that
- >came at early morning to coax forth the seeds of another spring; it had the
- >drooping fogs of autumn, and the spiraling snows that had brought so many
- >midnight Christmases ... shafts of sunlight piereced the storm-clouds in the
- >name of Summer, only to be smothered by Fall's fog, while ... Spring coaxed
- >its legions out of bough and earth, then saw its buds murdered by Winter's
- >frosts before they could show their colors."
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- >Was King ever as good? =)
- >(Admittedly, however, King's characters are still amongst the best in
- >horror fiction. Barker is improving, but he's not up to SK's level in
- >terms of characterisation just yet!!! )
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- >Chua
- >+==+
- >PS: Followups to alt.horror
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- I thought TToAlways was a disgrace. It is evidant that Clive is moving back
- to short stories, but I think TToA has a potentially good plot with an
- extremely predictable series of events. It seems, almost, that it was
- written by Barker in his first few years after high school and he re-
- discovered the document just recently.
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- -jq
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