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- From: harrison@lclark.edu (Mark Harrison)
- Subject: Re: Books of Blood
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.234122.5332@lclark.edu>
- Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
- References: <1992Nov16.205644.590@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <Bxvy6L.3p2@willamette.edu> <BxytGD.23r@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:41:22 GMT
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- In article <BxytGD.23r@cck.coventry.ac.uk> agiblett@cch.coventry.ac.uk (CENOBITE) writes:
- >
- >The books of blood were good.
- >To put it simply they were clive barkers best writings.
- >In my opinion this is because he had not tried to become popular.
- >Even barker who is my idol has moderated his writing and in doing so lost
- >some of his style.
-
- He purpously changed his style. I read an interview from him last month
- where he said "First people had me pegged as a horror writer, so I
- switched to fantasy. Now people have me pegged as a fantasy writer, so
- I'm changing again." That's not an exact quote, but that's basically what
- he said. I guess he doesn't want to get into a rut, as can be seen from
- his latest book.
-
- PS: I'm a fan of the novels. The BoB don't do much for me.
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