Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780399132780ISBN:0399132783
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has minor wear and front flap is creased, binding is tight and square, pages are clean and unmarked. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Books, New York
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780425127933ISBN:0425127931
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The book is very solid with unmarked pages. The cover has minor shelf wear & moderate edge wear. The spine has a few creases. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Jove Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9781557731135ISBN:1557731136
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Normal spine creasing and edgewear for well read copy. Tight binding and clean pages. read more
Edition: First edition. 1st Charter ed. and printing on # line
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Charter Books, New York
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9781557731135ISBN:1557731136
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Good to almost very good, shows spinewear/edgewear and one cover crease on front, pages are very clean and tight. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Jove Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9781557731135ISBN:1557731136
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780425127933ISBN:0425127931
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean pages. Tight binding. Book seller markings inside front cover. Near fine but has a thin line of black marker around edges of cover. . read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Jove Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9781557731135ISBN:1557731136
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Vintage paperback. Tight binding. Bookseller markings inside front cover. Scuff on back cover where price tag removed. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Charter, New York
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9781557731135ISBN:1557731136
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Shelf and edge wear to wraps with creasing, small chips and tears. Solid copy with clean pages. read more
"Finished Damnation Game just now...and put the book in my to be traded stack afterwards. I've never been a fan of Barker. This book (in my openion) hit a lot of the same "keys" he plays in some of his other "writings". Hellbound, Weaveworld hit some of the topics or ideas here. For one thing there seems to be an idea that innocence is either non-existent or very short lived and "must" be spoiled. The selfindulgent protaginist who sets out to live a hedonistic life and reaches a point where nothing excites or pleases anymore...so he begins to indulge in perversities. This of course gets more and more....well, perverse.
This book is (as Barker points out) the writer's take on Fauste, only, who's Fauste here? Is it the "self" or is there a "devil" (or Devil)behind the scene?
Barker likes the gross out a little more than I do and I found this book almost wholly lacking in terror, or psycological horror. ( He also seems semi-obsessed with "scatological" issues and perversions?) We got a couple of sex scenes...mostly strange and disturbing ones, the mildest of which involves Mamoulian invading Cary's mind during coitus. We also get some others, including a couple of corpses (and if I say anymore about that I'll be guilty of a gross-out). The saddest scene (and this probably says more about me than the book) is the pathetic episode with the dogs.
I found nothing inspiring, enlightening, or thought provoking here. If that's what you're looking for...find a copy of Faustus, From the German of Goethe, or one of the plays.
Neither could I say this is an enjoyable novel...at least not from my point of view. Barker is a big selling novelist somewhat in the "vein" (it would be a great pun if this was a vampire novel) of Stephen King. He even points out that he benifitted from Mr. King's arrival on the scene. I'm happy for you if you like Barker (or for that matter King etc.) but they're really not my choice of read."
"This is, hands down, the scariest book I have ever read. Ever. I read it for the adrenaline genres week in my Reader's Advisory class. Since I only had a couple of days to read this and another book (716 pages in 2 days!), I stayed up till about 2 am reading this. BAD IDEA!! I started out reading it in the lounge, but moved into my room at some point. And that was when the trouble started. At some point I needed a bathroom break. But I was too scared to open my door and run the 3 feet to the bathroom. I was afraid the bad man from the story would be out there. I'd like to take this moment to point out that I was 27 when I read this."
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