Clive Barker’s Favorite Books on Good vs Evil…
With the impending release of The Scarlet Gospels coming up the site Good Reads asked Clive Barker to share his favorite books on the theme of good vs evil. It’s a great list and I’ve read three of them. I still need to read Moby Dick and The Bible. But as far as the others go he totally his the nail on the head. Thanks to Clive Barker’s official Facebook page for sharing the news.
Here’s the List:
“Moby-Dick is the perfect representation of the ambiguity between good and evil in the animal kingdom. A masterpiece of literature. Personally, the incredible iconography behind the image of the white whale as pure metaphor—like Blake‘s illustration of the tiger—is one of the most powerful images in our collective consciousness. This book marked me deeply. Part of me belongs to it.”
“It has all the best lines. And is THE definitive book on Good and Evil. As a child, I was always drawn to books with illustrations. My grandmother used to have an enormous Bible that contained these extraordinary monochromatic reproductions of Renaissance paintings that changed the way I viewed the world. I was able to open this Bible up and, at random, find something that fascinated me. Those images have never left me.”
“One of those miraculous stories that is both ancient and modern at the same moment. My Abarat novelsare greatly inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The book is pure imagination.”
“I read it as a child of 11, and it was such a simple, beautiful story about people suffering with the compromise of age. There are elements in my novelThe Thief of Always that were very much intended to have the simple kind of beauty of a Bradbury story. Bradbury is, unquestionably, a titan of literature. If you read Something Wicked This Way Comes when you are ten, it means something very different to you than if you read it in your thirties or forties. It’s that rare kind of masterpiece that continues to evolve with its readers.”
“The horror, the horror. Need I say more?”
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