So Clive is just a BDSM Stephen King? What are your thoughts on his work
>>25178800No, that doesn't really capture his style. Barker is a much better stylist than King, who is a bit workmanlike. King can occasionally drop a little gem of insight, but Barker has more of a sense, and a respect, for the darker undercurrents of humanity.
>>25178949Does Clive have any books that arent full of gay bondage?
>>25178800Tends to be very physical, very body focused. Folks will be getting physically damaged, having sex, pissing and shitting themselves, pissing and shitting themselves while having physically damaging sex with a monster, all the physical sensations of the process will be the focus of the story. Barker isn't much of a cerebral, spiritual, or existential guy, his dread is always about the immediate personal body. The stories range from imaginative to meh, but leaning strongly on the imaginative side.Other than Books of Blood I've read Weaveworld, which takes a step away from the grodyness, towards something more wistful, dreamy, urban-fantasyish, but still imagined in his trademark vivid wild strokes.
Degenerate faggot writes degenerate faggot genreslop.
>>25179194Almost everything? He's gay but he's not a fucking representation obsessed millennial.
>>25178800It says a lot about manga fans when what they consider to be the best one of all time is just a blatant rip off of his work. Barker is the only modern horror author I’ve read so I don’t really have anyone to compare him to.
Rawhead Rex was a fascinating look into how a faggot hates and fears nothing more than a healthy fertile woman.
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>>25178800I LOVED Imajica
>>25179601the SSRIs you need to function implyotherwise m8
>>25178800He's a terrible writer, his edgelord fanbase is embarrassing, and the excesses of being a fag destroyed him.
>>25179807>filenameLolI wouldn’t touch his hand I’ll tell you that much. Not only because who the fuck knows where it’s been? And look at his dirty fingernails, gross.
>>25179603I'm reading it now and I like the setting and atmosphere but I kind of hate most the characters. The fat villain and his henchman are fun at least.
>>25178800Hellbound Heart was good, his movies were excellent, his video games were good if overambitious, but pretty much everything else he did was a waste of time. He never annoyed me quite as much as King did, though, I'll give him that.
>>25179807wiki has a pic from 2007 where he still looks healthy enough, but he had throat polyps and then a sepsis episode.blowjobs from a HPV penis and just general having a blasted-out rectum might account for the former and the latter.
>>25179297I don’t fear women they’re just annoying and dumb. They also keep trying to have sex with me probably because of my disinterest
>>25178800Stephen King wishes he could write something as brilliant as The Hellbound Heart. That story uses murder as an allegory for infidelity. The similarities between sexual desire and violence are perfect mirrors of each other. It's the sort of brilliance that can only come from editing your story, which Stephen King never does.
>>25179620degnerate pervert here, never diagnosed, never medicated, still jolly.
well if you were to consult his early life section you would understand why.degen faggot writes degen books. I like hellbound heart quite a lot tho.
>>25180409King has more range than Barker.
