The Ending of Galillee
Lynn Cameron-Blakey
Galillee rather tedious and pale. I was rather let down at the end. It was
as if Clive ran out of steam or thought the book was getting too long and
decided to just drop the whole issue of The Barbarossas vs The Gearys
because it was just too much effort or still too many details to deal with
and the book was already getting too long. Just my opinion but I had more
expectations and went rather flat when I read the last chapter......
Lynn
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Lynn Cameron-Blakey <lcam...@twmpdx.com> wrote:
> I don't know if anyone else shares my opinion, but I thought the ending
to
> Galillee rather tedious and pale. I was rather let down at the end. It
was
> as if Clive ran out of steam or thought the book was getting too long and
> decided to just drop the whole issue of The Barbarossas vs The Gearys
> because it was just too much effort or still too many details to deal with
> and the book was already getting too long. Just my opinion but I had more
> expectations and went rather flat when I read the last chapter......
>
> Lynn
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Lynn:
There is going to be a Part 2 to Galillee. The reason it MAY have felt flat
to you is perhaps you were unaware of this. Had I gone into reading w/o
knowing there was going to be a pt 2 I may have felt the same way.
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Lynn Cameron-Blakey
don't feel so "flat" :-)
Lynn Cameron-Blakey <lcam...@twmpdx.com> wrote in message
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> I don't know if anyone else shares my opinion, but I thought the ending to
> Galillee rather tedious and pale. I was rather let down at the end. It
was
> as if Clive ran out of steam or thought the book was getting too long and
> decided to just drop the whole issue of The Barbarossas vs The Gearys
> because it was just too much effort or still too many details to deal with
> and the book was already getting too long. Just my opinion but I had more
> expectations and went rather flat when I read the last chapter......
>
> Lynn
>
Bob
I'll know not to buy it when it hits the bookstore. It's the only
Clive Barker book I didn't like. Not just because of the ending but
because, like all homosexual romances(is there such a catagory?), it
was too flaky & tacky.
Blake
but I liked how it left things open. And I thought it worked for the format...if
it were really being written by the character in the book it seems a likely way
he would end the book. Anyway, what I mean to say is I just plain thought the
ending worked!
Oh, and on a side note is there really going to be a sequel? Has this actually
been confirmed or are you just assuming there'll be a second one from how the
first one ended?
Blake
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Jim Ramsden
If you meant 'romances written by homosexuals', I very much disagree with
the flaky & tacky stuff. I didn't think it was flaky or tacky at all.
What strikes me as odd is the fact that we deny homosexuals the more serious
part of relationships (getting married, owning a home as a couple, getting
the benefits society offers 'paired off' folks), which leaves them nothing
for out in the open but the frills and superficiality of infatuations and
courtship... then we turn around and chide them for being so flighty and
flaky and tacky.
It's like denying a kid meat and potatoes and only letting them have cake
and ice cream, then turning around and slamming them for being so into cake
and ice cream. Theirs is a sub-culture of dead-ends (as much I can tell from
my place on Straight Guy Mountain) and it's too bad because many of them are
decent, hard-working, caring individuals who deserve just as much of a shot
at the good life as the rest of us do.
Rachel and Galilee's 'romance' was cool and I'm very much looking forward to
how it all pans out in the end.
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the evils
| Clive has said so in interviews.
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Of course he's also in the past mentioned sequels to Cabal (films and
novels) as well as the Third Book of the Art. And yet, and yet...
Greedo
> was too flaky & tacky.
You did realise that Galilee was a man and Rachel was a woman, right?
-dj
pa...@theburtons.freeserve.co.uk
As the UK edition of the book states in the flyleaf, "Galilee is the first
novel in a new two-part series". Something which the US publishers in their
wisdom seem to have neglected to mention.
E-J
pa...@theburtons.freeserve.co.uk
> was too flaky & tacky.
1. Just how many homosexual romances have you read to be confident in making
this assertion?
2. The principle lovers in Galilee are a man and a woman. So... your point
again?
3. Clive is gay. His fiction has featured many gay characters, as well as
straight ones, bisexual ones and ones who can fulfill any preference. He is
celebrating sexuality in all its forms. I would suggest that if you can't
get with that, then maybe something a little more conventional might be your
tastes, but you say this is the only Barker book you haven't enjoyed. Did
you not notice what was in the others?
4. At least by reading the sequel you'll give the story a chance. Otherwise
it'll be like walking out of the cinema halfway through the film and
complaining that the ending left you unsatisfied.