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Thanks for the tag @Parvez I‘m going to skip 1&2. 3- In Clive Barker‘s Weaveworld there is an orchard of peaches, where they are the juiciest and get you drunk off of happiness. It‘s located in a world woven into a carpet woven by the magic of the 4 families in hopes of escaping genocide at the hands of an angel. Unfortunately the orchard burns down when Weaveworld gets infiltrated by Immacolata, and Shadwell and the gyre gets destroyed.

Weaveworld is a fantasy epic that has great characters, exciting scenes, creative world building and much more. However, it felt too long and a little hard to get through. Check out our discussion about it on episode 8 of our podcast: https://bit.ly/3LhCzOK

Hubby and I are both big Clive Barker fans (from before we were together). I was lucky enough to meet him several times while he still lived in Liverpool.
Hubby did one better and worked with his brother and got invited to tea whilst Clive was there. Clive drew the pic in the book for hubby. I‘m not jealous.
Clive wrote genius horror/fantasy.
#favouritesignedbooks

I read this book about thirty years ago, when in my twenties, and thought it 'da bomb!' Been considering netting myself a cooy to re read now but fear it may not live up to my memory. Have you ever been disappointed when revisiting a favourite read? Should I do this or let it remain a fond recollection!?

“Yes, fantastic fiction can be intricately woven into the texture of our daily lives, addressing important issues in fabulist form. But it also serves to release us for a time from the definitions that confine our daily selves; to #unplug us from a world that wounds and disappoints us, allowing us to venture into places of magic and transformation.” #QuotsyMar21

Thanks to my girlfriend for getting me this graphic novel of Weaveworld, I never even knew there was a graphic novel for it - turns out there's three of them and I'm looking forward to reading them; big fan of the Clive Barker novel! 💫

#clivebarker

𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕. 💫

Reminded me of Imajica a bit, felt like the same world. 🤷‍♂️ Some bits were creepy as hell! 🙈

You really have to pay attention to this book when reading it, it's very complex, there's a lot of characters and it moves around a lot.

But it's one of the best books I've read of his and I definitely recommend this for anyone that likes epic adventure stories!

Awesome new bookmark, courtesy of my husband. #cute #unicorn #bookmarks

“And beneath the smell of decrepitude, something more bitter and more human. The scent of sweat, perhaps, soaked up by the boards of a sick bed, or in the fabric of a lamp that burned through a night whose endurer had known no morning. Not a place to linger too long..”

#death #horror #masterofhorror #descriptive #clivebarker

I adore Clive Barker, and I‘m just starting this one. ❤️

I am listening to my audiobook of Weaveworld again and I just heard the part where "The Prophet" makes his big "Make the Fugue Great Again" speech.

“Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion.”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

Picking the right laundromat book is hard, it needs to be interesting and still putdownable, I think this one is working. Which is good because as we drive from Texas to Alaska I think this is just the first of many laundromat days :)

#WinterWonderland #SellMeACoat In Weaveworld, there‘s this charlatan named Shadwell who was given a coat made of magic made by Immacolata and her 2 sisters hell bent on revenge after being exiled from their place in a carpet that holds the four families of magic, the Seerkind. The coat is pretty pivotal throughout the story. It shows everyone their secret desires. Barker and this book were the beginning of me being a reader. #Firstbooklove

Clive Barker! I wanted to post this because im in love with this cover! I can't wait to read this, his worlds are always so strange and i love it!!#horror #litsyreads #booknerd #love #books #clivebarker #booknerd #horrorstory #read

Finished this up yesterday! It was weird, fantastical and horrifying all in one!

Cal stumbles upon a magic carpet with a world hidden inside of it. Suzanna stumbles upon a family legacy. They both are thrown into a journey that takes them to another world, a world hidden within our own. Really enjoyed this and all the different characters it introduced. The main antagonist, Immacolata, is super creepy!
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#getmovin #Sandstorm This part is where the bad guys, Shadwell and Hobart, go deep into the deserts of the Middle East searching for the long dormant Angel Uriel, The Scourge. They hope to find the angel to exterminate all the Seerkind, magical people who had woven themselves into a rug to protect them from the murderous angel when it was awake. Clive Barker is an author who got me into reading with his novels of fantasy and horror.

Wow! Since I knew that #CliveBarker was the author of the #Hellraiser series in wee book and big screen movies, I genuinely thought that this book would have been all blood, gore and twisted fantasies of some sort... And, its not! Took me by surprise, just how how laid back it is, yet keeping you on your toes and turning those 8306(I'm not kidding!) pages .

#JingleShelves #RedGoldGreen

Got this one all in one cover! 🙌

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#awholenewworld #jubilantjuly
@RealLifeReading
There's one in here!

Latest book haul. I promised myself I won't get more books before I read the ones I already have but we all know that... is not happening 😂
Tell me about your book buying habits...i would live to know how other readers buy books and other stuff
Plus all this wonderful bookish stuff is from Papyrus...
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#MahraReads #Books #Book #Bookish #MustRead #CliveBarker #Bibliophile #Bookish #Bookstagram #Pakistan #BookTube #Bibliophile #BookTube

#magiccarpetride #rockinmay
@Cinfhen
Photo I took this morning before I left 😀 there is a brilliant magic carpet in this book!
Have 30 mins til drinks reception and had to do Litsy first!!
Thanks for all the good wishes this morning! Session at 11am tomorrow!

#localauthor #aprilbookshowers
@RealLifeReading
Clive Barker is my favourite local author. For about 10 years I thought everything he did was genius. Met him quite a few times in Liverpool (he is literally from the same area as me) and he was always lovely and entertaining. I had a massive Barker author crush 💚

#autobuyauthors From upper left clockwise is Ana Castillo, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Julia Alvarez, and Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni. Clive is the first author I remember being 13 and staying up at our kitchen table reading until 2 in the morning. Robert writes with heart, above all else. And Ana, Julia, and Chitra let me know that if you feel like you're between worlds, you're ok, there's a lot of people out there who feel just like you do.

“You‘re still a man, Shadwell,” she reminded him. “You‘re vulnerable.”

“Shut up,” he said.

“Shadwell —”

“Shut up!” he repeated, and turned on her. “I don‘t want to hear your defeatism any longer. I‘m here, aren‘t I? I won the Fugue.”

/Shadwell is relevant...

"When it was all done, Suzanna found her voice, thanking both the grave diggers and their mothers.

'After all that digging,‘ said the eldest of the girls, ‘I just hope he grows.‘

'He will,‘ said her mother, with no trace of indulgence. 'They always do.‘"

Good afternoon. #currentread #bookandtea

#currentread quote made me think of current events, somehow...

#currentread I love that phrase, "wilderness of innocent malice."

“One part of love is innocence, One part of love is guilt, One part the milk, that in a sense Is soured as soon as spilt, One part of love is sentiment, One part of love is lust, One part is the presentiment Of our return to dust.” #litsypoetey365 @SharonGoforth

"'There are worse things than existence,' said Immacolata.

'Oh?' the Hag replied. 'Can you name one?'

Immacolata thought for a short while. 'No,' she conceded, with a soft sigh of distress."

“Everything has its pattern,” Freddy put in. “If you find it, the great can be contained within the small.”

#currentread

“...she had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

Speaking of authors I love, 99 cents will get you Clive Barker's novel Weaveworld for your Kindle or Nook right now!

I've never been a real reader of Horror but I love me some Clive Barker. This is one that has stuck with me for years; I've looked at rugs very differently since. #AllHallowsRead

Clive Barker's #DarkFantasy about a society that could create magic, who wove themselves into a rug to hide away from the evil beings hunting them. Of course, all manner of power hungry people and creatures would love to get that rug!
My favorite of Barker's weird horror/fantasy novels.
#AllHallowsRead #ScaryReads

Truly one of the weirdest, greatest books I've ever read. #weirdbooks #somethingforsept

Whew! This one was a struggle for me to get through. It's not my usual genre but it was recommended by a friend so I didn't want to bail on it. I found the characters weren't developed very well and their behaviours and thoughts would change to suit the plot. Interesting imagery throughout, though.

There really is a lot to admire here - it's a pretty amazing concept. Marred for me by the writing.

Great characters in this novel. Wonderful fantasy.