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Summary: What's the point?
Review: I dove into the book with relish after hearing so much about Laymon's work. Being that it was the first of his books I'd read I kept a very open mind. The first 100 pages or so were very good and after that I let myself be pulled along by the story. Really feeling that all of this inconsequential stuff was building up to something. By the last 10 pages I was thoroughly disappointed by this story thinking, "What's the point he's trying to make." There wasn't even a climax to this story. Maybe all these folks are right. Maybe Laymon usually is a great writer but in my opinion "BITE" is a waste of 370 pieces of good paper. I give it one star simply for the effort he gives at seeing this story through. I'll eventually give Laymon another shot. But not anytime soon.
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Summary: PURE SICK GENIUS I love it!
Review: Extraordinary- I've been a Laymon fan for years! finally saw his book in a kroger supermarket! YEAH from reading the review the Aussies love him(we love your blue oil can beers)so I think the Aussies should export some of his books to the USA since we can't get them here. whadda cruel world
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Summary: It was good, but not the vampire book I thought it was...
Review: I was in a store when I spotted it... It sounded good, and I did enjoy it. It just wasn't a vampire fixated book like I hoped for. Don't let that stop you from reading it. It was very readable, and it kept me glued to each page. I'll definitely look at other books this author has written.
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Summary: This is a vampire book?????
Review: I was very dissappointed in my first read of Richard Laymon.Was this suppose to be about a vampire? Just because there was one in the trunk does not qualify this as a vampire book. I had high hopes as I kept reading waiting for the main characters to get down to business and stop lusting after each other. I wasn't feeling sorry for Cat as a battered wife. And Sam was alittle too whimpy. This one went into the trash as soon as I was done. I wouldn't dare pass this one on to a friend.
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Summary: Compared to Funland or midnights lair, Bite bit
Review: Richard Laymon is horror genius, he always goes a step further, leading his works to be disturbingly entertaining. With Bite, however,his nack for making the unbelievable believable failed him.I still enjoyed it more than a king or koontz bore.Don't give up on laymon, he has a couple masterpieces out there, Ilook forward to discovering more of them.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I started Bite at 3pm, and finished it by 10pm the same day. Terrific story teetering on weather reality or supernatural forces influenced the characters. I kept expecting Elliot to resurface with every turn of the page. A must read.
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Summary: A novel with no surprises at all!!!
Review: Well, I don't know about you, but I was disappointed..very disappointed. I expected a lot from this book but got nothing but a long line of anticlimaxes. Nothing really happens in this book - the long lost love of the main character Sam shows up after ten years, and wants Sam to help her get rid of a molesting vampire and of course Sam doesn't heisitate long!! Ok, Laymon does use a couple of pages on Sam's "reluctance" to kill, but come on, it's just there because otherwise the whole thing would seem absolutely implausible. In the end what "convinces" Sam it's all right to kill the vampire is that it's not a human being - how nice and convenient!! Ok, accepting this (as the vampire was a very bad one..) I kept on reading because I was anxious to know Cat's real motives for using Sam and not just because he is the only one "she can trust" as she tells him. Well...there was no dark motives!! The beautiful angel-like Cat simply falls in love with Sam who to me appears a bit unattractive og doll - everything very sweet and beautiful. Before the two lovers can get each other they first have to battle White - the second villain in this novel, who really isn't that interesting. The only character I liked in this book is the devilish child Peggy... YOU might like this book, but consider yourself warned!!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Arguably the best of Laymon's efforts, "Bite" has a mean hook and takes you for a wicked ride. Real-life characterization, impossible situations, Laymon-esque violence and brutality, and swift prose make this the best horror novel I've read this summer. Not for the meek!
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Summary: Bite is simply masterful
Review: Where can I begin? I have read every Richard Laymon novel he has written. As I have just read Bite for the second time, I can honestly say that is is brilliant, nay, a masterpiece. This book, like every other Laymon, has super tight writing. You can really hear, smell and feel everything that is happening. Laymon writes characters that are among the most believable, three-dimensional and exciting ever written - and that is rare in any genre of book. Bite is a cross between the hip, cool,fast paced style of From Dusk Till Dawn, and the scary, heart pounding gruesomness of night Of The Living Dead. - it would make an awsome movie. Laymon is a true master; a professional, an entertainer, and a writer of TRUE horror. You havn't lived until you've read a Richard Laymon. You have to go out and buy this book. I mean it - DO IT !!! This is Laymon at his best. It is sensational.
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Summary: For readers of Dark Suspense not Vampire Novels
Review: What can I say? I liked it alot. I am not a big fan of vampire stories (barring the rare exception) so it didn't bother me that vampires existed more in the abstract than the actual. I enjoyed much of the difficulties that the characters went through.Amidst the darkness there is humor.Shows a genuine warmth for the main characters, Sam and Cat, who are flawed but interesting. Richard Laymon also shows a good flair for dialogue. I was fascinated throughout. The ending may frustrate some but I like how it turned out. Will definitely read more. Despite what Kirkus Review says.Porno-violence?
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