Weaveworld by Clive Barker is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, allegedly, while on The Greatest Books of All Time site it is ranked only 3790th, and last but not least, it is not even there on my own list – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, check my macaws there

 

Weaveworld by Clive Barker is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, allegedly, while on The Greatest Books of All Time site it is ranked only 3790th, and last but not least, it is not even there on my own list – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other web pages on my blog  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, check my macaws there

 


7 out of 10

 

We find from According To Mark https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/according-to-mark-by-penelope-lively.html that the novelist has an infinity of choices, He chooses what is to happen, to happens, and in what way he will relate what happens, the picture he constructs is complete on its own terms…when he says this is the story and the whole story we must accept it…perhaps novelists are the only people telling the truth’ concluding hence that the writer is god – and what better evidence than Science Fiction

 

The beginning of Weaveworld was enticing – for some reason, I often feel like including the mean culpa: this is subjective, the book is acclaimed, ergo, marvelous, as if it were not clear that these are amateur notes, by definition flawed – and I thought that this may be such a pleasurable fourteen hours of reading…well, it was an audiobook

There are even some hot erotica scenes – an I muse over what I have missed, seeing that I lost interest after about an hour or so – albeit the protagonists, Suzanna Parrish and Calhoun Mooney, start by avoiding sex, if you will, when they have this small bed to share and I thought of https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flourish-by-martin-seligman.html Flourish by Martin Seligman

 

Calhoun Mooney is chasing this champion pigeon – you should watch Fawlty Towers, the best comedy series ever, if you ask me, and you have an episode where Manuel is supposed to get some pigeon – and then he arrives at the house vacated by Mimi, an old woman who is sick, in the hospital, people moving things are inside

This is where we, through the hero, Stumble On Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html - incidentally, a life changing book by Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert – by finding this Special Carpet and thus Weaveworld

 

Mimi has a granddaughter, Suzanna Parrish, called to see her relative in the hospital, where she is in a serious condition, she may die – indeed, she does, and we suspect foul play, albeit the patient had already been close to the other world – Calhoun and Suzanna meet, he falls in love with her, and then…forgets about it

‘Forget about it’ is a line from Donnie Brasco https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html and I could not say how Calhoun forgets so much at a later stage, because I missed the parts in between – nonetheless, when he tells Suzanna that he loves her, she does not respond

Not completely, not from the start, partly because they are involved in this rigmarole, to conclude, I could not make it beyond the preliminary stages, which is too bad, because it looks as if I missed so much, they do have sex, perhaps repeatedly, I seem to have tuned in to some of that, while skipping through the novel

 

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