Customer Reviews
No ! - By: M. Ras, 21 Nov 2008 
Very Poor.. Just burn the book!!! I just want to put it alll behind me. I thought Clive would turn out something worthwhile but was very disappointed.
Demononic - By: kehs, 01 Nov 2008 
This has the themes of war between Heaven & Hell, angels & demons, good & evil. It's narrated by a medieval demon from the Ninth Circle of Hell & is set in the 1400s. It's blood thirsty, vicious & gruesome to read, but strangely addictive. Constantly being told to stop reading & burn the book was annoying until I realised that this was the whole point of the tale & was a gimmick to emphasise what words can achieve & the changes they can effect on the world. I felt the story was a little slow at times but a brilliant innovation, nonetheless. Maybe if Barker had made the book a little longer & expanded on the demon's adventures I would have enjoyed this more. As it stands, it's not what I have come to expect from Barker & so was slightly disappointed.
Whimsical and original - By: sartori, 19 Oct 2008 
Clive Barker is without doubt a remarkable imaginer. This powerful gift of imagination that he possesses provides us mere mortals such as me some of the most wonderful stories available. One of Clive Barker's strengths as a novelist to my mind is that while most of his stories are contained within the realms of dark fantasy fiction each one is unique. Many of the books that are on the top ten bestseller lists are stories by authors who follow a formula from book to book, tedious, boring, tired, aged old repetitive narratives. Clive Barker is not predictable in this manner & his latest offering, the excellent "Mr B. Gone" yet again gives his readers something fresh & whimsical to savor. "Mr B. Gone" is a little gem of a book, & a worthy 5 star entry to my review list. I also would like to tip my hat towards HarperCollins publishers, as they have done an exceptional job on the production of the book (USA hardcover version only); it reallly is quite an amazing object. It's a facsimile of a book that could have been printed in the epoch that "Mr B." is set in. They did a brilliant job of the "Abarat" hardcover books also. Speaking of Abarat, Abarat 3 will hopefully be with us next year, Sept/Oct 2009! I certainly hope so!
Seriously turgid - By: Mrs. A. M. Beaumont, 23 Sep 2008 
Mister B. Gone
Seriously turgid rubbish. Barker is better than this book thank god. He must have had some serious problems during the writing of this painfully bad volume, that must surely be the only excuse.
Barker pens a sinsister change-of-pace - By: M. Daneker, 13 Sep 2008 Clive Barker let's loose his inner demon, literallly in a tome reminiscent in tone to "The Yattering & Jack."
"Burn this book." The title character exclaims, & begs, & pleads as he is the book & he is talking to you, the reader. Burn it? No, I found it too entertaining. In fact, When coffee got spilled on mine I quickly ordered a new copy for my library.
The Demon in the book, I won't say how he go there but I will say that when Gutenberg invented movable type & set to print mass quantities of a certain religious text, Hell was not amused & set to stop the event. So, who is Mr. B. Gone & how does he fit into this? Well, he's a demon named Jakabok Botch (not sure the spelling here) who begrudgingly gives up his story -- how he was horrificallly burned by his father, escaped hell quite by accident & made his way through our world -- in return for your promise to burn the book when he's done.
This is reallly a novella, a reallly long - short story. The only issue I had was the constant rambling about "burn this book" that crops up at every chapter mark, I skimmed over & read the meat of the book instead. Some other people should learn the same trick.
What I find funny is that people give reallly high-marks to the Audio Book read by Doug Bradly (Pinhead from Hellraiser) & reallly low marks to actual book. Guess you can't find your own voice!
This is a reallly good, little, sinister piece that would be right at home in the Books of Blood.
So Read this Book.
