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Author name: Richard Laymon

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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780843951820
ISBN number: 0843951826
Label: Leisure Books
Manufacturer: Leisure Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 544
Printing Date: 2004-03
Publishing house: Leisure Books
Sale Popularity Level: 144625
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When Neal rescues a woman from a vicious assult, she gives him a magic bracelet, which allows him to step inside other people to experience their feelings. But the woman's attacker is out for revenge, very first on her, then Neal, and Neal must use the gift to look inside the would-be killer's head.




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Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - A wild strange seductive ride!!!
Blood and Rain
Blood for the Masses

Originally published in Sinesteria Magazine.

Body Rides
by
Richard Laymon

Reviewed by
B.L.Morgan

4 Stars

What if you could hop out of your own body for awhile and ride around inside somebody else's, experiencing everything that they experience? You could eat all the richest foods and never gain an ounce. You could get into vicious fist-fights and not even get a bruise. You could experience wild sex as a man or woman and have no fear of AIDS or even rubbing up a blister.

Wouldn't that be great?

Well ... maybe.

The central character of Body Rides, Neal, saves a woman from being murdered. As a thank-you she gives him a medallion that grants him the power to jump bodies. Then things get complicated.

Neal jumps into someones body just before they are murdered and the killer comes after him.

Body Rides was extremely well written. Richard Laymon knew how to pile on the suspense. The violent scenes are described in extreme gruesome detail. You really do learn to hate the bad guy because he is a psychotic, blood-thirsty, sociopath who deserves nothing better than being tortured and dismembered. Other than that, he's an OK dude.

Laymon did keep Body Rides interesting throughout. The reason it was marked down from the 5 was because there was a rather long stretch in the middle of the book, about a hundred and fifty pages, where it seemed like the author forgot he was writing a horror novel. Neal just kind of wandered around with no real goal to what he was doing.

I was happy when Body Rides got back to its main plot-line. Just before it happened, I was beginning to wonder if Laymon had ruined his own book.

There is a lot to recommend this novel. Richard Laymon was obviously a very skilled author. Except for that middle section I named, the unique storyline of Body Rides moved along at a good clip with more that enough surprises along the way to keep any reader interested. For some spice there was also some kinky sex thrown in.

If you want to check out a novel to find out if Richard Laymon is your kind of writer Body Rides is a good introduction. Even if the book is not perfect, it is a strange seductive ride with an ending that was a total shock.


Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - This is Richard Laymon?
I did not miss a treat as Stephen King described Laymon's work. I did not have a good time with this book as Dean Koontz said about this author. The author's writing was done poorly. It was done so poorly written in fact, that I stopped before chapter 3. Why was it done poorly? It lacked detail. Where's the detail Mr. Laymon? All I read was dialog, and some thoughts from Neal. Sure it was suspenseful from the start, but with out detail a story can't exist. This is my very first and last book of Mr. Laymon. If you decide to get this book, and this is your very first Laymon novel, pass on it.


Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - Horror???
This book sucked so bad it was painful to finish it. I really wanted to give the author the benefit of the doubt since it was the very first of his I've read so I forced myself to finish it.

Where was the horror? It wasn't scary in the least. I felt like I was taking a "body ride" in a 40 something year old greasy guy who still lives with his mother and had to listen to his masturbatory fantasies. *shudder* Never again.

If you're a true horror fan don't bother with this tripe. I can't believe that Stephen King recommended it!

Save your money.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - A Mixture of Great and Mediocre
This book is difficult to put down on the parts that are good but is real slow and boring during some long interludes. Neal is an out of work writer who goes late at night to return some videos. On the way he happens on a woman being attacked by a madman. Neal rescues her shooting the madman but not verifying that the madman is in fact dead. Grateful the woman gives him a bracelet that makes him a kind of Dr. Strange where his asteral body lifts out of himself and can travel and actually enter another person. When the user is inside the other person he feels everything the other person feels and hears all the other person's thoughts.

Unfortunately, the madman (who Neal will nickname Rasputin) will come back and murder the woman. What follows is Neal experimenting with the bracelet, fleeing town to get away from the cops and Rasputin. Several things make it hard to really like Neal as he has a girlfriend who he insists he loves yet he falls in love with the woman he rescues and over the course of a day, he falls in love with two other women.

The book has some very well written parts and then other long drawn out parts especially love making scenes. I gave it four stars because when the book is good it mesmerizes you!


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - RIDE OR DIE
Body rides is another interesting book by laymon because it's alot different then what were used to reading from the man...A man saves a woman from certain death by a lunatic and as a reward she gives him a very special bracelet once given to her....This bracelet lets the wearer hop into bodys and view the world through another persons eyes and it's a good thing too because the man he saved her from is coming back for her and he's next....I enjoyed it, it's not his best but it's nowhere near his worst, and with all that i almost forgot about the sex and violence which is seldom missing from a laymon book. But then again thats why we love the man.

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