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This story is covered over two volumes. I enjoyed it so much that I never did finish the second volume because I didn't want the story to end.


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Imajica The Fifth Dominion Book 1 Clive Barker 9780061094149 Books Reviews

I started reading Clive Barker with his Books of Blood. His short stories were incredibly imaginative and absolutely extreme in the visuals they caused to dance across the eye in your mind. Imajica, in my most humble opinion, is the book that has thus far served as the pinnacle of Mr. Barker's writing. The Maestro, Gentle, Judith, all of them are so well fleshed out you feel you know them by the end of the book. One of the books of the art, which included The Great and Secret show and Everville, Imajica stands out from the others in ways not easily explained, but all too easily felt. Clive Barkers ability to tap into the places that exist inside you that hold your fear, your awe and your dreams makes him, in a sense, a master manipulator of emotions, but when you've finished reading Imajica, you will be glad for having giving yourself over to his ministrations.
When Judith's estranged husband hires a mysterious assassin to kill his wife, he unwittingly sets in motion a sequence of events that will change all the dominions of the Imajica, of which Earth is the fifth. Both Judith and her former lover John "Gentle" Zacharias are drawn into the mysteries as the assassin Pie 'oh' Pah leads them both forward to remembering their origins and connections to each other and to the ruler of the other dominions, the Autarch. Judith's journey veers from Gentle's when she finds evidence of buried and suppressed goddesses on Earth and in the other dominions. But the Autarch has domination plans of his own, and he won't be stopped without drawing blood first. "Imajica" is essentially about healing, and about love. Gentle is a broken man, a habitual womanizer, who's brought to a place of healing through his relationship with Pie 'oh' Pah, a mystif with the power to change sex according to another's true desires. Judith is claimed by many men, but she battles this ownership, and must find her own way and rely on her own strength if she's to assist in bringing the dominions back together. And ultimately it's in Judith's hands whether this healing of the Imajica comes about or fails yet again. It's a gorgeous epic fantasy that soars to a reader's heart, and once there plants a seed of imagining the world as a better place, much as Gentle and Judith do. This is one of my favorite all-time books. I feel so wordless in attempting to describe it.
It's a great read ! Too great to publish it in one (paperback)volume, even !!! I recommend that you get the two volumes and read them in one go, because the story has a lot of sub-stories and side-stories, a lot of characters and (unless you make lists or have a really good memory), it might all become a little confusing is it takes you too long to read it.

Imajica consists of 5 dominions, Earth being the fifth and unreconciled one, the other four are reconciled and you can travel freely between then - except for the first dominion, because thats were god lives.

200 years ago, a handfull of great magicians tried to reconcile the fifth dominion with the other four, but they failed and almost destroyed all five dominions. Those on earth who helped them and survived, vowed to gather all magical books in the world and hide them, so this could never be attempted again.

Now, Judith (a woman who can't remember anything that happend more then 10 years ago) is trying to escape an assassin her husband hired and gets help from her former lover Gentle (who has the same memory problem) and thus sets in motion a great journey for the both of them, trough the dominions, to discover who they really are.

The first book won't give you all the answers, since it was originally published as one volume, so get them both and read them in one go !
It is hard to believe that it has been over ten years since I first read this mammoth novel- and some thirteen since it was first published. I think "mammoth" is not exaggerating, for how else do you describe on novel that exists as two separate volumes, each of over 500 pages? This isn't a casual read. It represents a considerable investment in time. There are also so many characters, settings, plot lines, specialized vocabulary and underlying principles to keep straight.... Yet, it is worth the investment in time and effort.
The basic framework, like so many of Barker's other novels, is that of a hidden world behind the superficial façade of our mundane world. Barker is such a master at interweaving mundane, and profane, details into the greater fabric of his realities that you find yourself totally drawn in. I found myself totally immersed in this hidden reality. For this is a story of five worlds, or dimensions, or Dominions. These make up the whole of Imajica. That is, they should. Two hundred years ago there was an attempt to reconcile our own fifth Dominion with the other four. This ended in a metaphysical catastrophe so great that that nearly all of the Dominions great theurgists, shamans, and theologians were killed. The result was that almost all magical knowledge passed from our world and for two centuries science and materialism held grim sway.
Now, conditions are once again ripe for an attempt to reconcile the Dominions. The great magus', or Maestros, know that this may very well be the last attempt to heal the rift in creation. To fail this time will undoubtedly mean two more centuries of isolation- plenty of time for the Fifth Dominion to destroy itself in nuclear or ecological suicide.
Yet, to heal the rift will require a Master of such power and confidence that he will try to succeed where all those that have gone before him (even the Christos) has failed....
Prompt and efficeint.
This story is covered over two volumes. I enjoyed it so much that I never did finish the second volume because I didn't want the story to end.