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Title: Darkness, Tell Us by Richard Laymon ISBN: 0-8439-5047-1 Publisher: Dorchester Pub Co Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Suspensful as ever, but lacking in reality.
Comment: Okay: you've heard of an Ouija board, haven't you? That's the thing you use to communicate with dead spirits. Anyway, six college students come across one, and say, what the hell, let's try it out. So when they do, they come into contact with a spirit named Butler, who promises a fortune somewhere in the moutnains. His messages are cryptic, but the students figure again, what the hell, they'll go looking for the gold.
Their professor is against it, of course, and so is her lover, but hey, the students are young and rebellious. So they go into the mountains. Now there're a few complications in their search: one of the students has a past that literally comes back to haunt them; the professor, guilt-driven, heads into the mountains to find them; and oh, yes, there's a maniac with a really big knife.
Okay, so it's not too realistic; not that any horror novel ever is. However, Laymon usually manages to convince us that yes, indeed, those vampires are out there. This novel lacks that power to convince, but hey, it IS suspensful, and it is a gory ride. Richard Laymon always thrills; "Darkness, Tell Us," is no exception. Dig in; you might find the treasure...or you might find a maniac with a knife.
Rating: 2
Summary: Swing and a miss....
Comment: First off, let me say that I'm a big Laymon fan. I came across this book on a book display, and bought it with eagnerness and looking forward to enjoy a Laymon book. This isn't one of his better books, as a matter of fact, it was one of my least favorite of his.
The plot is interesting. A group of college students break out an ouija board and make contact with a ghost named Butler. This ghost promises them a great treausre if they just do what the ghost tells them to. I don't want to give much more out, but let's just say that things don't end the way the college kids think it will.
I had a few problems with this book. 1) The characters. Most of them were annoying. I honestly don't think that people would act the way the the charcaters did in the book. 2) The writing. The doalouge wasn't true to everyday people either. I just can't believe that people would talk that way. 3) The conversatations weren't true to life. I mean, there was 2 1/2 pages of charcaters talking if they should go to the bathroom. 4)The conclusion. It was a major let down.
I think Darkess, Tell Us, could have been a wodnerful book. Notice I said "could have".
If you like Laymon as much as I do, try and find the book in a used bookstore.
Rating: 4
Summary: Characters Are Too Accepting
Comment: Another fine story from the mind of Richard Laymon. While spooky and unpredictable, I felt there was something missing from the characters. The story centers around a group of students who play with a Ouija board at a party. They were way too easily convinced that the Ouija board truly worked.
The entity communicating through the board convinces the group that there is "loot" hidden in a mine on a secluded mountain. The group decides to go for it and steals the board from their professor (the one hosting the party). Once the professor realizes what has happened, she sets out in pursuit as she has had bad dealings with the board.
What follows is a fun and fast-moving tale and one of a series that has me convinced that Richard Laymon does not like the woods. Many surprises and tense moments wrap the character development until the story resolves in unexpected ways.
Definitely a good book for Laymon fans although it is not his strongest. But, as with many Laymon books, we do see just how thin a line there is between civilized and horrible.
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Title: No Sanctuary by Richard Laymon ISBN: 0843951036 Publisher: Dorchester Pub Co Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Night in the Lonesome October by Richard Laymon ISBN: 0843950463 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Island by Richard Laymon, Dean R. Koontz ISBN: 0843949783 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: One Rainy Night by Richard Laymon ISBN: 0843946903 Publisher: Dorchester Pub Co Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: In the Dark by Richard Laymon, Dean R. Koontz ISBN: 0843949163 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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