Two years ago i discovered Clive Barker’s book Abarat. The first thing i noticed about the book is that if you flip it upside down it still says “Abarat”. Courious as to what this might be called i looed on several websites. Wikipedia had the answer. It is an ambigram, or, “a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation.” That’s quoting wikipedia.
After reading the first book, I looked around for the second book. It was just as good if not better than the first one. The series is for young adults, or teenagers, but I find his writings in these books to be refreshing and colorful. The detail and descriptions he puts in to his books is something to comended. The only down side to reading this series is that after finishing the second book, i now have to wait for the third one to come out. Its not due until 2009 and i have already been waiting a year. There are worse things in life, such as getting a hang-nail or perhaps stubbing your toe on a cold day (which always seems to hurt more) but the situation i’m in really sucks monkey balls.
