paced reading horror and thrillers discussion

I just marked it as no spoilers for now so if anyone wants to join in they know nothing will be revealed to them in the thread while you figure out when and how you are going to read it. Let me know if you want me to change anything that you cant like the title and I will take care of it. I will be following along on this one so if you want I can change the spoilers after everyone is caught up or you can just go without it in the title whatever you both decide.

As soon as you start I will add it to the groups currently reading so it displays on the group home page.

Okay. Sounds great! I think we agreed that we wud start on sunday:)

So, what other laymon books have you read?

This will b my first. I really wanted to read Darkness, Tell Us but I dont think kindle sells that one. I also have The Traveling Vampires.

The traveling vampire show is my favorite. There is one thing about laymon that kind of bothers me and its especially bad in the cellar but I dont want to give anything away, so we can talk about it later. I just hope you arent so disgusted with this book that you decide never to read him again because the traveling vampire show and a few others are great.

Oh no! Can u give me a hint?

Glad u said something justin. I read some reviews and I may have to forget about this one. Sorry Cate. I dont think I can handle this one. Shud have done more research. I will not write him off, but im gonna have to pass.

It's totally fine :)

So what did you think of it Cate?

I did like it, but the beginning was too much..when the guy broke into the house and violated the girl. I had a hard time reading that, but other than that it seemed like classic Laymon. I wonder if we will see any of those characters in Beast House. I'd give it a 3 out of 5. It would be a 4 out of 5 if it wasn't for those horrible scenes. I really like the way Laymon writes. The way he writes keeps me entertained. This isn't classic literature or anything like that, but that's what I like about it.

I debated between a 3 and a 4. The thing that bothered me even more is that it didnt really add anything to the story.

One thing I have always liked about laymon though is that no matter how bad of a monster he can think up the humans are always worse.

You're correct, it added nothing to the story. To know that he had once done that to his own child was bad enough. I really do like how Laymon includes horrible human characteristics to add to the horror.

For its time, this was some hardcore stuff that I'd rate right up there (almost) with Jack Ketchum's Off Season. Authors rarely got away with this kind of extreme in 1980. I think I rated it a bonus star for being ahead of its time and actually getting published.