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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780843957518
ISBN number: 0843957514
Label: Leisure Books
Manufacturer: Leisure Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: October 30, 2007
Publishing house: Leisure Books
Sale Popularity Level: 379340
Studio: Leisure Books
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The only witness to a crime committed by Jack the Ripper, fifteen-year-old Trevor Bentley grows into manhood and travels on a quest of vengeance across a wild and untamed continent.
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Just finished Savage and thought it was great. An adventure tale...let yourself go a bit and get into it. When your were young, if you ever got into a bit of trouble, and imagined how out of hand it could get, this is the book for you. Suddenly, I was 15-16 again and on a wild adventure. Innocence and verve win in this one. Highly recommend. Would love to give to my 13 yr old, but not quite. If you took about about 10 pages it would be a perfect teen adventure story (from R to PG-13).
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Trevor just won't give up... very first he's off to fetch his uncle who's a Constable, to take care of a minor domestic dispute... along the way he's attacked, then runs smack into Jack the Ripper... doing what any good 15 year old would do he confronts the mysterious Ripper to save the girl... and ends up in a cross global adventure that puts Tom Sawyer on crack to shame.
When reading this I knew what Laymon was doing right from the beginning... he was writing his version of Tom Sawyer. Unfortunately for Laymon, he is no Twain. The opening of this book shows a lot of promise, we have the tension of the Ripper, the claustrophobia of London at the time, his mother in peril and then we have a lengthy sea voyage that will have you biting you nails to the quick... But then we come to a screeching halt and spend a lot of time in domestic life, riding trains, learning to shoot, traveling with brigands, meeting a few girls and eventually getting back to the story of the Ripper though it take about 300 pages to get there.
This is one of Laymon's longer works, clocking in at just under 500 pages. The biggest annoyance with this book isn't the concept, the idea itself is pretty nifty... some unfortunate soul knows the identity of the Ripper and chases him to the new world... this book should have absolutley ROCKED... but it didn't. First of all there is far less gore in this book than most of his others... which is strange since it is about Jack the freakin Ripper. Also the sex is toned WAY down. What is ratcheted way up however is really bad dialogue and terrible attempts at writing colloquialisms. If I had to read the words Chap, or Passel one more time I was going to slap someone... then when we got to the west everyone said things like shucks, pardner, and russel. But not just once, they repeated the same few key words over and over again. Then by the time we got to the end, Laymon forgot who was British and who was Western when the girl from Texas suddenly busts out in British slang.
If he had just stuck to hunting the Ripper this could have been a wonderful book.. he was doing so well with that part... but the Tom Sawyer adventure failed miserably due to phony, one dimensional characters and uninspiring dialogue. If you have not read any Laymon before, this is not a good place to start, as it really doesn't gel with most of his literary cannon and may give you the wrong impression as to what he writes. Start instead with "In the Dark," "Traveling Vampire Show," or the Beast House series.
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Over the long Labor Day weekend, I treated myself with a trip to my local book store to buy a few books to help get me in the mood for Halloween--even thought it is rather a way off. The very first few chapters of Savage were quite good, but once as soon as the characters set sail for America, I became very disappointed with the plot and the writing. Laymon's endeavor at capturing a British accent is painful--He seems to rely heavily on words like "bully" and "passel" to convey Englishness. Similar painful methods are deployed in his use of words like "pardner" in his cowboy characters. There are pages of dialogue that were so bad that I read them out loud to a friend--our sides are still aching from the laugh workout.
Having spent good money on the book, I finished it, but I was thrilled when I had read the last lines. I then walked the book down to my local thrift store and tossed it in a bin for some other poor soul to find. Buyer beware!!
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Richard Laymon is an awesome writer and if you like gripping horror novels, he writes them best. His books can be compared to a racey Dean Koontz. I liked this book a lot. The characters were likeable and you really get into the story. I could not put the book down.
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This was a pretty good book. I've read much better by Laymon, but this was certainly an adventure like I've never read before. I recommend it because it will certainly hold your interest.
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