Current Events > Has anyone read Clive Barker's The Damnation Game? *spoilers*

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I randomly saw it for sale at Books A Million. Looked it up, apparently it's a staple in the horror book circle. Me not being a huge horror fan to begin with (out of lack of exposure, not necessarily because I dislike the genre), I figured I'd go with it.

I loved the intro. Thought it was badass and wanted more. Then the time jumped to Strauss, which I didn't mind. But I'm about a third way through and I'm just...bored. I recommended it to a friend who is a huge reader (one book a week I believe he said he aims to get), and he says he's about more than half way through but hasn't touched it in a while, which I understand. I actually feel like a jackass for telling him about it while I started reading it.

Anyway, does this thing pick up? I'm struggling to stick with it.

I've read it and it's probably my favourite Clive Barker novel. I enjoyed it all the way through but the intro was definitely the best part of the book.

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I've read it and it's probably my favourite Clive Barker novel. I enjoyed it all the way through but the intro was definitely the best part of the book.

Thanks for the reply. About when does it pick up and get "scary?" Or if I'm not into now, am I basically not going to enjoy it?