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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780843949780
ISBN number: 0843949783
Label: Leisure Books
Manufacturer: Leisure Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 504
Printing Date: 2002-03
Publishing house: Leisure Books
Sale Popularity Level: 118466
Studio: Leisure Books
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A holiday idyll that turns into a nightmare. Eight people take a yachting cruise in the Bahamas and find that they are not alone.
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I am a fan of Laymon and his dirty nasty mind. I really enjoyed the Beast House books and Traveling Vampire Show. They all had tons of blood and even more perversions. The Island is also filled with both, but I found the story a little too campy. Written as a journal by one of the castaways named Rupert, the writing was good. What I didn't like was that Rupert was a pervert. It wouldn't have been bad if every other thought wasn't about staring at one of the women's breasts, or hoping to see a breast, or see some kind of skin. It was funny at first, but after 400 pages it got a little tiring. Laymon is a good writer and can be suspenseful. This story I figured out right away, though I did like the nasty ending. Some people love this book, but for me it wasn't one of Laymon's best.
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What a fantastic book, from start to the very surprising and great ending.
The book is presented in the form of a journal written and narrated by the main character Rupert Conway. Eight people are on board a yaht out on a cruise for a little fun in the sun, Rupert(the narrator)is not part of the family, he was invited by one of the daughters, Connie, who is his girlfriend. They are all on an island when the boat suddenly explodes except for Wesley who is married to another daughter(Whom all are beautiful along with the mother)who appeared to die in the explosion. Now everyone is stranded, at very first their biggest fear is getting rescued but soon faimly members start to die one after another. Now there biggest fear is staying alive, as there is an unknown killer on the island with them, who will survive and who is the killer??
This book will deffinetely not be for everyone. As in most of the late great Laymon books there is a very horny person, and in this book it is Rupert, who is in love, with his girlfriend and her sister and her mother and just about all females. There is lots of women in bikinis, sex, gore, blood, rape and just about everyone ends up naked. But it is all done in laymons unique style the makes it extremely entertaining. Island will make you laugh, it will scare some and repulse some but rest assured it is a fantastic read if you an opened minded person and it has very memorable ending.
If you have never read a Laymon book, start with this one!, it will open up a new world of fiction reading for you. There is no one to really compare his books to, they are that unique. He takes a story line filled with murders, lots of blood and sex and somehow spins it into a light and humorous read. Richard Laymon was taken from us way to early..
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Laymon is the king of gross, twisted stories, and he delivers one of his best stories here. People get marooned on an island with a killer who picks them off one by one. The tension is great and the characters are well drawn. For a while it becomes like a murder mystery and you start suspecting everyone of being a bad guy. Like the other Laymon books there's some heavy sex in this one that heats things up. There also some stuff at the end that will make you feel bad just for reading (when you get to the gorilla cages you'll know what I mean). Overall a great book.
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A small group of people are left stranded of a tropical island, after their yacht mysteriously gets destroyed in an explosion, while they are ashore. It soon becomes apparent that they are not alone on the island, as one-by-one the male members of the party are being murdered.
This story starts off at a terrific pace. For about the very first 200 pages, I found the book hard to put down. The plot is full of suspense, and you are wondering what is going to happen next, and there are a few moments that make you want to jump in shock.
However, from about half way through the book, the pace of the novel began to slow down, and the story began to be a bit dragged out. There is not too much character development either, which, is usually a strong point for this author. This lack of character development, can be probably put down to the fact that we are being told the story through the eyes of a horny teenager, who is one of the stranded group, and is more interested in snatching views of the women, than his own safety.
Towards the end, the story becomes very bizarre, and could have been done better. Still, overall a good read and I give it four stars.
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Island is one of the best Laymon books I've yet read. Let's get that out of the way first. If you like Richard Laymon in general and haven't read this one yet, do so immediately. Only In the Dark has been better so far.
The book opens with a bang (quite literally) and rockets along for the very first couple of hundred pages. An explosion strands our heroes on a desert isle. What they all too quickly find out is that they weren't stranded alone.
In some ways Island is the ultimate Richard Laymon novel. All his usual themes are here. I'd only read the very first chapter before I was knee deep in eye-rolling dialog, inappropriate and wildly unrealistic behavior and a teenager's obsession with women's bodies.
In fact, nudity and sexuality was rampant in this one. Every character in this novel spends at least three quarters of the novel either nude or falling out of their clothes and being oogled by Rupert the narrator. One of the biggest weaknesses of the novel was Rupert's single-minded obsession with the bodies of his fellow castaways. No matter what stress Rupert may be under he always had the time to describe the nipples of other characters in intricate and loving detail. I don't want to come off as some prude or anything like that, just the way that it was handled really became intrusive to the story.
Nonetheless, if you can accept that Rupert is a walking hard-on, there is a lot of good fun to be had here. Laymon may be cheesy, but his books are so compulsively readable! Things in Island never settle down long enough for you to become bored or start questioning the myriad improbabilities of the story.
At the same time I have to say the book is too long. Like it overstays its welcome. Richard Laymon books often feel like he's writing them by the seat of his pants. Sometimes it works because it's near impossible to guess where anything is going. But at the same time it sometimes feels like story elements just pop up out of nowhere. That starts to happen around the middle of this book. It is still good and exciting, but the same spark that compelled me to burn through the very first half sort of disappeared around here.
Despite all my above whining, I did finish the book and overall I have a favorable impression, but it feels like it was maybe a hundred pages too long.
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