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    <body><![CDATA[The Damnation Game bleeds the dark, sensual eroticism and morbid imagination that has become the Barker signature. The novel offers out a feast of emotion to submerge yourself in, from bizarre and horrific scenes of brutal violence to moments of heart-wrenching literally romance. It was Barker's fir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64400140">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Finished Damnation Game just now...and put the book in my to be traded stack afterwards. I've never been a fan of Barker. This book (in my openion) hit a lot of the same &quot;keys&quot; he plays in some of his other &quot;writings&quot;. Hellbound, Weaveworld hit some of the topics or ideas here. F...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75063809">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don’t know what it is about Barker. In many ways he’s stylistically tone deaf, alternately putting out superb prose and florid trash (sometimes in the same book) without   any distinction. This is one of the good ones though. It’s a simple Faustian tale that is basically a horror story, but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63553671">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, hands down, the scariest book I have ever read.  Ever.  I read it for the adrenaline genres week in my Reader's Advisory class.  Since I only had a couple of days to read this and another book (716 pages in 2 days!), I stayed up till about 2 am reading this.  <strong>BAD IDEA!!</strong>  I started out readi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73796272">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really care for this book. Having enjoyed reading Barker as a teen (Books of Blood and Cabal) I decided to pick this up last time I was at the book store. I wish I hadn't. I don't know if I don't like Barker anymore or I just don't like this book, but this story did not draw me in. I almost...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52543041">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Damnation Game is an enjoyable read, but I did not find it quite as good as the other stories I have read by Clive Barker. Although this novel did include some of the shocking images that one expects from this author, I felt it was a bit dull and flat at times. I still liked it. I just didn't love i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72772721">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kathleen, my third floor neighbor currently, across-the-hall neighbor previously, is a great fan of horror fiction.  When asked to loan me something she regarded as truly horrific, she passed on this Barker item, the first I'd ever read.  Although the beginning of it impressed me for its grue and go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73357010">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a beautifully written - blood filled/terror ride - this book gave nightmares - Clive Barker is at once restrained and deadly with words - he is excellent at simply writing clean - beautiful language with the talent Hemingway lacked for creating images that are not easily erased.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoy Clive Barker's imagination and writing style, but this is likely my least favorite book.  It is entertaining throughout, but the theme seems a little muddy for the first 2/3 and then when all is revealed it feels a bit like a let-down. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not finished yet, but if anyone sees me reading this and decides to give it a shot, I would like to say to you: PLEASE, give it until page 200 or so. PLEASE. The book starts off slooooow. If it started off any slower, I would have burned my copy, rather than merely throwing it across the room in dis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34132786">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure if I read any of Clive Barker's books when they came out. Although I did have an interesting hallucinegenic experience seeing Hellraiser when it came out in 1987. As for the Damnation Game, I enjoyed the book, it was creepy, well written, but there was something dated about it that I ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34542753">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this when I was an adolescent -- super creepy and haunting. I will not forget how this book made me feel. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm probably in a minority, but this is my favorite Barker book.  No doubt, because it was my first.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The ending seemed chopped short, but had some things that made me literally cry with horror (love it)!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was looking for a book in the same vein as American Gods by Neil Gaiman and this is it! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good little twist on the Faust tale. This has a full cast of characters who are by turns both sympathetic and unsympathetic. It's also full of the twisted body horror that contributed so much to Barker's early work.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all time favorite novels. This is the book that turned me into a Barker fan.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favourite horror novel of all time. Clive Barker knows how to scare readers and this is a masterpiece of horror. ]]></body>
    
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