All Hallow's Eve

Rating:
Summary: All Hallow's Eve doesn't hit the mark
Review: I did think a couple of parts were interesting though, where the kid's father, who was the killer in it committed a few murders with a hatchet and locked some of his son's classmates in the haunted house and murdered a few of them, encouraging his son to murder and rape some of the girls.One of the lead characters in it, a police officer was dating the boy's mother and by the end of the book you learn she was murdered too by the boy's father. The cop then begins having a relationship with a woman he met at the local motel in the course of his investigation into the murder of his superior officer. But besides that, the story was pretty weak.

Rating:
Summary: A RARE DISAPPOINTMENT FROM DICK
Review: It's a shame that this was the first Laymon book John K read. No, this is not very good, in fact after attempting to reread it I found the prose amateurish and uninvolving. However Laymon wrote many wonderful books that simply demand to be reread. No doubt you all have your favorites. I particularly recommend:

ONE RAINY NIGHT, RESURRECTION DREAMS (the first Laymon I ever read), COME OUT TONIGHT, DREADFUL TALES, NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER, FLESH and BODY RIDES. So John, pick up one of these books and I guarantee you will be glued to your chair. Dick was (and still is) one of the best.

Rating:
Summary: Garbage....It's all I can say about this book
Review: Okay, maybe I'm being a little too hasty here...having read only half this book before I threw it away, but am I the only one who didn't like this book? I kept hearing how wonderful a writer Richard Laymon was. So I thought I'd check him out. This book was just bad (did I already say that? oh well, I can't say it enough. It was bad, bad, bad, BAD!)*getting a hold of myself...deep breaths...let the anger flow out of me*...

...I can't believe i wasted time with this book. It was PREDICTABLE! DUMB! The scenes were poorly descripted, the charecters were total cartoon charecters, the dialog was autrocious. The main charecter was the only one I liked until the scene where he went to a motel and did something that you only find in the MOST CHEESIEST, UNBELEVING scenes from the most terrible soap opera. I swear if things went farther it would have been exactly like a porno movie: Two strangers meet and have sex before they ask each others name. The man is a cop, a good guy and already engaged, so I'm failing to see how it was believable.

Seriously, it was silly, predictable, dumb, and plenty of other negative words.

Sad thing is some synopsis' for some of his other books ACTUALLY seem interesting to me....I just know that more time spent reading his books is just more time wasted.

Rating:
Summary: Pretty good. Very fast-paced.
Review: There is no U.S. edition. This is a British edition. That's why it costs more. It's not Laymon's best book, but it is way better than most of the amazon reviewers say. Laymon is one of my favorite authors.

He won an award for outstanding novel in 2001 for the "The Traveling Vampire Show". He was nominated for the novels "Flesh" and "Funland", the collection "A Good, Secret Place," and a great book about writing fiction called "A Writer's Tale".

He was born in 1947 near Chicago. He lived most of his life in California. He's very popular in England.

This book is pretty short at about 250 pages. It's lean and fast-paced.

Read this book if you're already a fan of the author. Otherwise, try one of his other books first. I suggest "Body Rides" or "Island" or "The Stake".

Be careful not to buy the Fastbacks.

Richard Laymon's novels are listed at www.rlk.cjb.net (It's a fan site run by Steve Gerlach.)

All of Laymon's novels are available in the United Kingdom. You can order them from www.amazon.co.uk / Shipping is expensive though, and the free shipping offer is not valid outside of the United Kingdom. Also, the British Pound is more valuable than the US dollar.

American editions of Laymon's novels are available from Amazon.com and some of the British editions are available from Amazon-Canada at www.amazon.ca

On amazon.co.uk this book is listed as "Allhallow's Eve". "Allhallow's" is one word there and two words here. There are other reviews for the book there.

Rating:
Summary: ALLHALLOW'S EVE
Review: VERY TYPICAL RICHARD LAYMON BOOK. A CRAZY GROUP OF TEENAGERS, PARENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE A CLUE AND A LOT OF BLOOD. ONLY PROBLEM I HAD WITH THIS BOOK WAS THAT IT ENDED TOO QUICKLY AND THE SCENE IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE WAS TOO SHORT.