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Summary: The thing kept me up for days!
Review: *speachless* Uh, it blew me away dude. I read it in 96' with a raging review from my friend "It kicks *ss man, give it a try!" He said. It must be good coming from one who avoids reading long stories when ever possable. I'm glad I did.
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Summary: A good read...
Review: A tourist group visiting the popular "Mordock's Cave" attraction is trapped underground when a power failure incapacities the elevators. 21 year old Darcy is the group's tour guide, and takes charge of the group's 30+ people. After the tour group realizes that they can't get back above-ground via the elevators, Darcy and a few others decide to find another way out... and that's when things get REALLY bad.It's not deep reading, just fun reading! This is my second Richard Laymon book -- the first one I read was NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER, which I enjoyed more. There are some good starts to the characters in this book, but Mr. Laymon doesn't really flesh them out, and the plot really isn't resolved to my satisfaction. All in all, though, a pretty good read, if you don't take it too seriously.
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Summary: A good read...
Review: A tourist group visiting the popular "Mordock's Cave" attraction is trapped underground when a power failure incapacities the elevators. 21 year old Darcy is the group's tour guide, and takes charge of the group's 30+ people. After the tour group realizes that they can't get back above-ground via the elevators, Darcy and a few others decide to find another way out... and that's when things get REALLY bad. It's not deep reading, just fun reading! This is my second Richard Laymon book -- the first one I read was NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER, which I enjoyed more. There are some good starts to the characters in this book, but Mr. Laymon doesn't really flesh them out, and the plot really isn't resolved to my satisfaction. All in all, though, a pretty good read, if you don't take it too seriously.
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Summary: A good read...
Review: A tourist group visiting the popular "Mordock's Cave" attraction is trapped underground when a power failure incapacities the elevators. 21 year old Darcy is the group's tour guide, and takes charge of the group's 30+ people. After the tour group realizes that they can't get back above-ground via the elevators, Darcy and a few others decide to find another way out... and that's when things get REALLY bad. It's not deep reading, just fun reading! This is my second Richard Laymon book -- the first one I read was NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER, which I enjoyed more. There are some good starts to the characters in this book, but Mr. Laymon doesn't really flesh them out, and the plot really isn't resolved to my satisfaction. All in all, though, a pretty good read, if you don't take it too seriously.
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Summary: Midnight's Lair
Review: Another reviewer said it best - "a great story gone wrong". There was no "meat" to this book. I'm not even a writer, but I saw so many places in the book where the story could have gone much futher. In the hands of another writer this could have been a great book. Laymon seems to be writing for horny teenagers.
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Summary: Midnight's Lair
Review: Another reviewer said it best - "a great story gone wrong". There was no "meat" to this book. I'm not even a writer, but I saw so many places in the book where the story could have gone much futher. In the hands of another writer this could have been a great book. Laymon seems to be writing for horny teenagers.
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Summary: Gory and predictable
Review: Aslover of horror fiction, I have read them all. I am not alarmed by graphic description or extreme bloodletting. However, this particular book insulted my sensabilities as a lover of horror. It was extremely predictable, excessively gory and filled with gratuitious gropping. Definately for the teen set.
A great idea gone wrong.
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Summary: Lost in the dark
Review: I am a big Richard Laymon fan, but I feel this is probably the weakest novel he has written. It is a fine story, but just not up to the disturbing level Laymon has made us come to expect. The story centers around a tourist cave. People flock to see the interesting rock formations, etc. But a power outage strands a tour group at the bottom of the cave. While the elevators do not work, and it looks like no help will be coming from that direction, the group decides to find another way out. Bad idea. Laymon likes to show how seemingly ordinary people can sink to the lowest depths when driven by circumstance or the failure of society. Unfortunately there is very little of that in this tale. The familiar Laymon twists and turns are also absent. While this is one of his shortest novels, it reads more like a long short story. Dark unexplored caves seem ripe for Laymon style horror to surface, but it just doesn't come through in this one. But it is still a dark and chilling tale and one wonders what one would do in similar circumstances.
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Summary: Lost in the dark
Review: I am a big Richard Laymon fan, but I feel this is probably the weakest novel he has written. It is a fine story, but just not up to the disturbing level Laymon has made us come to expect. The story centers around a tourist cave. People flock to see the interesting rock formations, etc. But a power outage strands a tour group at the bottom of the cave. While the elevators do not work, and it looks like no help will be coming from that direction, the group decides to find another way out. Bad idea. Laymon likes to show how seemingly ordinary people can sink to the lowest depths when driven by circumstance or the failure of society. Unfortunately there is very little of that in this tale. The familiar Laymon twists and turns are also absent. While this is one of his shortest novels, it reads more like a long short story. Dark unexplored caves seem ripe for Laymon style horror to surface, but it just doesn't come through in this one. But it is still a dark and chilling tale and one wonders what one would do in similar circumstances.
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Summary: Not one of his better efforts
Review: I first saw this book while browsing my favorite comic book store and picked up a copy right then and there due to the fact I liked his previous books Beast House and the Celler. The book starts out normally but when the lights go out during the underground tour the story seems to go downhill from there. One the author never tell the reader HOW the fire got started that strands the tour group underground. The story then switches back and forth between several charaters that you will have a hard time following the story. I would recommend that you pass on this book and read The Celler and its sequel Beast House instead.
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