Jake Welker
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If this book contained a parental rating, what would that be? What sort of content is in this book on a scale from 1-10? Violence: Language: Sex: Drugs: That sort of thing...I wish that there was some forum that contained parental notes on books. I can't find Clive Barker's books on any of the existing ones. Any help or info would be awesome. Thanks everyone!
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Ms_Rebecca
Weaveworld contains a fair amount of highly graphic sex and violence, some of it quite brutal even within first chapters. Odds are there is also drug use, but I cannot recall at the moment. I think the choice of whether this book is appropriate for children has to be a personal one. I would be fine letting my fifteen year old daughter read it, and and would use it as a jumping off point for conversation on topics contained within the book. I started reading Clive Barker as a young teen but as I said truly this should be about the reading level and emotional IQ of the child in question. Much of Weaveworld takes place in an alternate land and has a surreal quality that very much appealed to my teenage self and might for teens today as well.
I would not let my ten year old read Weaveworld as the graphic nature of bizarre sex scenes and moments of ultra violence are just not something I want him to have in his brain yet.
If you're looking for something with the otherworldly land and imaginative surrealistic quality of Weaveworld I would recommend 'The Talisman' by Stephen King and Peter Straub as a testing the waters sort of book. Talisman follows a boy on his journey across the Territories and does have allusions to sex though more as him seeing old Playboy pin ups and a medium level of violence. I am comfortable letting my ten year old son read it and had allowed my daughter to read it at that age.
We do things oddly I'm sure, but in our house books are not forbidden. We just have a discussion of subject matter, whether the young person is ready for it, and conversations about the book before and during the reading of it.
I would not let my ten year old read Weaveworld as the graphic nature of bizarre sex scenes and moments of ultra violence are just not something I want him to have in his brain yet.
If you're looking for something with the otherworldly land and imaginative surrealistic quality of Weaveworld I would recommend 'The Talisman' by Stephen King and Peter Straub as a testing the waters sort of book. Talisman follows a boy on his journey across the Territories and does have allusions to sex though more as him seeing old Playboy pin ups and a medium level of violence. I am comfortable letting my ten year old son read it and had allowed my daughter to read it at that age.
We do things oddly I'm sure, but in our house books are not forbidden. We just have a discussion of subject matter, whether the young person is ready for it, and conversations about the book before and during the reading of it.
Jd Greenfield
I love this book. It is a pillar of the dark fantasy genre, but you should treat it like a loaded handgun. You do not want children anywhere near it. I didn't know what an erotic nightmare was until my mind tried to wrapped itself around some of the events in this story.
The Usual
I agree with Ms Rebecca - this is definitely not a children's book. There's plenty of sex and violence (though too be fair it does all advance the plot). Just one minor point: from memory there aren't any drug references.
Andi
Not a kids book. Horror/fantasy - graphic adult themes.
Dalton
Well. I recall having read this book and at least two others of Barker's long ago, and I remember making a decision not to read any more by him. And I remember why. And I know at least one other reviewer here feels similarly to how I feel: these books can be poison in the wrong hands.
I remember becoming thoroughly engrossed in this author and even realized a bad effect on my demeanor. Maybe I was tender; maybe naive, a babe in the woods ...? I wager not many writers achieve profound subconscious movements as this one did on me, but, I won't go back in there, not me man, ...boy...uh uh.
I remember becoming thoroughly engrossed in this author and even realized a bad effect on my demeanor. Maybe I was tender; maybe naive, a babe in the woods ...? I wager not many writers achieve profound subconscious movements as this one did on me, but, I won't go back in there, not me man, ...boy...uh uh.
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