Clive Barker's Books of Blood
Clive Barker
"Okay, I wanted to read the book Books of Blood because, first of all, it was by Clive Barker, who is a renowned horror writer; so I figured it'd be a good book to read. Stephen King himself said that this guy was like the new genre of horror, and that anybody out there who was interested in horror needed definitely to read his books.
The book is a collection of short stories within itself -- I think it's about six short stories -- and it's about a person in the very beginning who fakes hearing voices and being a ghost reader -- or he can sense ghosts, but it's all fake. It comes to be known that the ghosts get angry with that, and they strip him down, carve a book of blood into his flesh, and then throughout the book, it tells those stories in his skin. So it's pretty gruesome, it's gory. It's cool.
The particular thing I liked about it was his way with words. He can write in such a way that you almost can see it. He's extremely graphic with -- you -- it's like you're there; it's pretty cool. And I'm not -- I'm gonna say I'm not an avid reader, but he kept me reading throughout the whole book and I was done like that. I read right through it. It was -- he keeps you stuck on the page.
My thing about the horror genre, I want to be scared. I want to be scared; I want a story to give me nightmares, literally. It did give me some bad dreams, but they weren't nightmares. Anybody -- I'd recommend anybody who loves horror movies, or horror books, or that type of genre, read that book. Definitely. Read Books of Blood by Clive Barker; I definitely recommend that, and I would give this book 4½ stars out of five."
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