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    Dark Mountain
    Dark Mountain
    Dark Mountain
    Audiobook9 hours

    Dark Mountain

    Written by Richard Laymon

    Narrated by Randy Hames

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Two families have come to the California mountains expecting a fun weekend camping trip. What they will find instead is terror in the form of a violent psychopath and his mother, a powerful witch.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 21, 2016
    ISBN9781511393850
    Dark Mountain
    Author

    Richard Laymon

    A former President of the Horror Writers Association, Laymon has written over thirty novels, more than sixty-five literary short stories (which were published in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Cavalier), poetry, crime fiction, two suspense novels, a Western, and two romance novels. Until recently, his books were unavailable in the US for more than twenty years. His novel Flesh was named Best Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle, and both Flesh and Funland were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. He won this award posthumously in 2001 for The Traveling Vampire Show. Richard Laymon died in 2001 of a heart attack.

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    • 2/5
      It was too fragmented for my taste. I constantly had to rewind and relisten to see if I'd missed pieces of the story... Most of the time, it was not me missing anything, it was the story not having the information needed to follow the bouncing ball. And the end... eyeroll. Horrible!

      I'm shouldn't even get started on the narration. If you like fluctuations in tone, and overly dramatic scenes in odd places, you may like it, haha.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I tried to get through this book but, even though it had a good plot, there was just too much sex. I’m far from being a prude, but they can’t even go on a hike or even wash their faces without wanting to have sex with each other. The mystery part takes up less of the book than all the sex.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      If you want to listen to graphic depictions of sex and violence narrated by the biggest goober imaginable, this is the book you've been waiting for.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I thought the story was great...but, the reader wasn't, unfortunately. I'll give another of this author's books a try, though

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Although i enjoyed the narrative and storytelling. The ending had a lot of lose ends unaccounted for after the build up and suspense of the plot

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I couldn't listen to this book because I was so thoroughly annoyed by the voice actor. Something about this reader turned me off.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
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      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Meh.....
      Hmm, it wasn't god but interesting in some ways. Nothing to recommend really.

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    • 2/5
      3 words can sum this book up. Breastsssss, nipples and rump. It's like a pubescent 12 year old wrote it and the narrator is awful. I cringed every time he said breastsssssss.
    • 2/5
      DNF. As some of the other reviews stated, this was just too filled with porn for my taste. I was looking for a thriller. It seems like it could be a good story, but like I said, all the excessive sexual content distracted too much from the story and I'm just not in that frame of mind.
    • 1/5
      That was terrible. I have a challenge to anyone willing to waste their time listening to this: try to count how many times the narrator says "Breasts". I guarantee you'll get to over 30. As for the author, he's gotta be a pervert . An absolute waste of time, I had to set it to 2x speed just to finish it, hoping it'd get better towards the end. It did not
    • 5/5
      Spannende und kurzweilige Unterhaltung!
    • 1/5
      The reader killed this book. Didn’t think I could get though it. Not bad for his first book. I’d read another if he writes one.
    • 4/5
      Pretty good fare from Richard Laymon! "Dark Mountain" details the story of two families who go on a camping trip deep into the woods only to find themselves threatened by an old crone and her beast of a son. Laymon does a great job making the reader feel part of the camping trip and setting the stage for the encounter with the creepy duo. The book really takes off though once the families return home and find that they may be dealing with a curse. Laymon does his usual outstanding job creating memorable characters and scenes. Maybe more so in this novel than some of his others, the major characters are truly believable. There are plenty of plot twists that will keep even the most inveterate Laymon fan guessing. Laymon adds his usual amounts of violence, sex, and uncomfortable situations to a story, though somewhat understated for him, will leave readers turning pages with gusto.Recommended for all horror enthusiasts and especially Laymon fans!
    • 5/5
      I loved this Laymon novel much better than the past novels I've read of him. While it still contains issues in it that I find a bit too gratuitous in nature, they were better handled than say in The Woods Are Dark.Following a group of families and friends who decide to go camping for a while, Dark Mountain shows the threat they face from a group of people who use magic as a means to kill people. Following a rough encounter, a curse is placed on several of the campers and it follows them home, leaving them with the chance to find a way to rid themselves of their supernatural affliction.This is novel is a wonderfully written, logically placed, and follows a strict guideline on dealing with magic once it is placed in the story. Four and a half stars out of five and definitely a must for any Laymon fans to read.