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Old 10-10-2010, 12:18 PM   #2944 (permalink)
LoathsomePete
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My first piece of fiction in quite some time, as well as my first Clive Barker book. It's a pretty interesting and unique piece for a number of reasons. First off the book is a piece of metafiction that starts off breaking the 4th wall encouraging the reader to burn the book so it reads like a diary. As you read on you find out it's a demon writing the piece, and that it somehow involves Johannes Gutenberg. There's also quite a production that went into it, with all the pages using a special type of paper, designed to look like a very old book, something I'm sure did not come cheap to the publishers. I'm just about finished with it, I'll probably finish it this afternoon, so it's very short, but there's a neat little story wrapped up in it that I think will prove to be worth the read. I'm not sure if this would be the best book to get someone into Clive Barker, but it's certainly a good piece by itself.
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