{"id":106,"date":"2019-07-19T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2019-07-19T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T17:24:49","slug":"another-crazy-horror-world-from-clive-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/19\/another-crazy-horror-world-from-clive-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"Another crazy horror world from Clive Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/32628.The_Great_and_Secret_Show\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Great and Secret Show (Book of the Art #1)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1407710558l\/32628._SX98_.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/32628.The_Great_and_Secret_Show\">The Great and Secret Show<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/10366.Clive_Barker\">Clive Barker<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2902395523\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/32628.The_Great_and_Secret_Show__Book_of_the_Art__1_\" title=\"The Great and Secret Show (Book of the Art #1) by Clive Barker\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Great and Secret Show<\/a> is an expansive, unpredictable, and unsettling work of horror fantasy involving a dream world and its relationship to our own. Like much of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/10366.Clive_Barker\" title=\"Clive Barker\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clive Barker<\/a>&#8216;s work, it&#8217;s wildly imaginative, gets you thinking differently about the world we live in, and is generally a good read.<\/p>\n<p>But while it&#8217;s worth spending the time with this long, meandering book if you know you like Clive Barker&#8217;s work, I wouldn&#8217;t recommend this for the uninitiated. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/52640.Weaveworld\" title=\"Weaveworld by Clive Barker\" rel=\"nofollow\">Weaveworld<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/567704.Imajica\" title=\"Imajica by Clive Barker\" rel=\"nofollow\">Imajica<\/a> are similarly expansive works, but both are tighter and better written than this, with more compelling stories with more interesting characters.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a general, well, goofiness to this book. The bad guys are more whiny and annoying than scary. And some things are just so over the top it almost seems to become a parody. Clive Barker always tries to push the boundaries, which I love, but in this book he just crosses into silliness sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/32957784-harrison-wein\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Great and Secret Show is an expansive, unpredictable, and unsettling work of horror fantasy involving a dream world and its relationship to our own. Like much of Clive Barker&#8216;s work, it&#8217;s wildly imaginative, gets you thinking differently about the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRPpr-1I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}