Galilee

I find myself at a true loss for words in trying to describe the pleasure this listen has given me. Clive Barker is a most remarkable and gifted storyteller. Galilee, is superb.

I have already recommended this book to three of my friends and will continue to give it glowing recommendations. Galilee is a work of tremendous breadth and scope of both characterlines and storylines that are interwoven flawlessly. Clive Barker is a true master story teller.

Not familiar with Paul Hecht's other work, but he is perfect for this book's narration.

The story of two families connected by money and marriage, wierd demon multi generationnal lovers, and something like a demigod with an inferiority complex. It might have been better as two separate books, one about a rich family tearing itself apart, and another about a family of nearly immortal crazy people with pet ghosts. But combine the two and you get a turkey. All due respect to Mr. Barker, This was not one of his best efforts.

twisted, deep, sexy

Galilee, because you just fall in love with him, its actually impossible not to.

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This book has not gotten it's proper due. I feel it should have the popularity of Anne Rice's The Withing Hour.

This is a great book. It has a great story and you will not want to stop listening.

Galilee was a dream for lovers of darker fantasy, sweeping epic storytelling, and does its myth building even better than American Gods. Spellbound, you will see the story unfold in front of you masterfully. The characters are multi-dimensional and relatable (even the antagonistic ones), and the plot manages to be both epic and completely individual. The characters are so real that it almost feel like the author had a different ultimate destiny for the plot, but the voices and actions of the characters became too much for him and he bent his narrative will to their agency. I would have once told you that Clive could do no better than The Great and Secret Show, but this one is right up there.

So why the four stars? The performance was magnificent. The story, breathtaking. The production? Occasionally atrocious. Extremely long pauses are artificially created, yet for some reason the narrator's breath or gulping sounds are not edited out. I have no idea why this is, but it's made all the more terrible inside of such a great story with such a great narrator. Please, do get this audiobook, but be warned that sometimes it's going to sound like the microphone is inside the narrator's throat.

I mentioned American Gods above. I loved that book. I love mythology immensely. If you like those things, you will love this book.

This book was to wordie. I gave only star for each catagory because I just couldn't stay intrested in the topic (what every that was).