false <![CDATA[Galilee]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170391851m/52639.jpg 52639 13 Over many years and many books, Clive Barker has earned a reputation as the thinking person's horror writer. His novels have mixed fantasy, psychology, and sheer creepiness in almost equal quantities, and while the gore quotient remains relatively low, the tension always runs high. In <i>Galilee</i>, however, Barker soft-pedals the ghoulish in favor of the gothic. His novel (or as the author would have it, "romance") tells the tale of two warring families caught up in a disastrous web of corruption, illicit sexuality, and star-crossed love, with a soupçon of the supernatural thrown in as well. On one side are the wealthy Gearys--a fictional stand-in for the Kennedys--and on the other are the Barbarossas, a mysterious black clan that has been around since the time (quite literally) of Adam. <i>Galilee</i> chronicles the twisted course of this centuries-old family feud, which centers around the magical Barbarossa matriarch Cesaria and her son Galilee. Indeed, it's the latter figure--one part Heathcliff to one part Christ--whose relationship with the Geary women sets a match to the entire powder keg of hostility and resentment. Mixing standard clichés of romance with his own peculiarly deep-fried version of the Southern gothic, Baker has come up with an intelligent and shamelessly amusing potboiler. 3009813 book 1998 Galilee total:880|5:209|4:269|3:281|2:92|1:29| 880 3177 1100 45 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 00:42:35 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 20:27:14 -0700 2007 Galilee is a strange book, and very hard to classify. It's a love story, sort of. It's a family history, sort of. It's a supernatural thriller, sort of. It's kind of all of those things and actually none, but that's what makes it such an interesting read.

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That said every moment was worth it. This book was the definition of epic, at least in a personal, very poignant way. The scope of the book was huge, but despite how many tangen...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Sep 15 20:09:21 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 20:10:51 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 01:25:49 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 18:51:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 28 10:07:58 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 28 10:08:35 -0700 2007 Favorite Quotes

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 10 11:35:51 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 11:37:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 16:30:06 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 12:34:24 -0700 2009 A Love story from Clive Barker??

Not exactly. Dark Romance, mhmmmm,perhaps.

This Barker-arian novel entertains and is great and fun ride through a different movement (similar grace notes!) of the authors overactive imagination which he uses effectively if not well, to di...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 16:36:50 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 16:38:26 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Apr 26 04:22:46 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 04:24:28 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 20:22:45 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 20:24:13 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Feb 17 11:44:44 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 11:45:23 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Apr 11 15:09:27 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 15:09:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Aug 07 19:43:48 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 19:44:29 -0700 2009 January 17, 2006]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 29 13:02:28 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 13:02:28 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 09:32:36 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 09:18:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sat Jul 19 21:24:45 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 07:27:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Sep 02 13:20:50 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 13:21:21 -0700 2007
I think I like Clive Barker. He’s not brilliant or t...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=52639