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    <body><![CDATA[Time for another snack!  I found this on the Friends of the Library bookshelf at Millwood when I picked up Deafening.  (Now, having read it...) And what a terrible snack it was, like  knowing you'll feel ill and vaguely guilty when you're done, but eating a whole bag of potato chips anyway.  Think l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15979092">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought I'd give this book a try as I was wanting something new...well that quickly bit me in the rear. This is one of the worst books I've ever had the misfortune of reading and I'll be sure to steer clear of this 'author' in the future. I forced myself to finish it then promptly set it out as 'f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40297623">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The waxworks were so realistic. <br/>Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...<br/><br/>The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.<br/><br/>Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[While not as brilliant as the last Laymon novel I read, &quot;Endless Night&quot;, this is a fun, fast read.  I wouldn't recommend it as a first Laymon novel, because nothing scary happens for the first third of the book.  If you're a Laymon fan, you know what this fiendish imagination can do, so yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61232886">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After having read &quot;The Cellar&quot; I'll admit that I did not have high hopes for this book. Not that &quot;the Cellar&quot; was terrible, it just didn't live up to its potential. &quot;The Beast House&quot; does a little better, not much, but there is definite improvement. First of all, as rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20974318">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The waxworks were so realistic. <br/>Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...<br/><br/>The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.<br/><br/>Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was better than The Cellar, which is the firs book in this series. It was action packed from the start. There is a lot of sexual situations, so beware, but at least there is no little girl in this one. I would recommend it to the non-squemish. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The waxworks were so realistic. <br/>Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...<br/><br/>The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.<br/><br/>Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this was a good book, but I was very curious as to what the beast was. Laymon tells you where it comes from but not really what it is. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting book with weird characters, story and the usual creepiness.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Apparently this book is part of a series, but I'll be damned if I can see why anybody would be so enthralled with this that they'd want to read more of them.  Shoots to be a graduate of the Stephen King School of Character Observation and drops out in the 10th grade.  Reading it gives you the same f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12968993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The waxworks were so realistic. <br/>Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...<br/><br/>The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.<br/><br/>Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an interesting concept! I loved this book and the sequel!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The waxworks were so realistic. <br/>Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...<br/><br/>The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.<br/><br/>Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great follow up to his Beast House. Nightmares abound!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The waxworks were so realistic. <br/>Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...<br/><br/>The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.<br/><br/>Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Load of crap.  Women don't act like that.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Author Gorman Hardy is hot on the trail of another bestseller and if half what's said about Malcasa Point is true, he's bound to make a killing. Petite and pretty Tyler and sexy Nora visit Malcasa full of expectation. But Malcasa Point is a place of pain, bestiality and death in The Beast House.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The waxworks were so realistic. <br/>Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...<br/><br/>The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.<br/><br/>Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[    I am a big fan of Richard Laymon and this book was no exception.  It was a little slower than some of his others, in my opinion, but still very good.<br/>    My big complaint with his books is that they always have 2 or more people fall in love almost instantly.  Lol...there is nothing wrong wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55137088">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  Holy cow, this book was terrible!  I thought I would try a new horror author (not King, Koonz or one of the classics, somebody new, somebody I had never read before)and it will probably be awhile before I deviate from the familiar faces again.  Laymon's writing is super corny and he manages to emp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16999905">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those girl meets bloke etc etc, however everything changes when they meet their destination!! Its very raw and very detailed with the gruesome parts it has me scared in places especially when it came to going to bed on an evening having to put the lights out!! The imagination works ov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5132627">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The waxworks were so realistic. <br/>Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...<br/><br/>The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.<br/><br/>Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yeah this book was okay.<br/>It's alright for one of those 'in between' books where you're not looking for something fantastic &amp;&amp; its not something overly bad. well i didn't think so.<br/><br/>i don't mind richard laymon books =]]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Author Gorman Hardy is hot on the trail of another bestseller and if half what's said about Malcasa Point is true, he's bound to make a killing. Petite and pretty Tyler and sexy Nora visit Malcasa full of expectation. But Malcasa Point is a place of pain, bestiality and death in The Beast House.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Begudgingly, I'll public admit to having read and enjoyed several of Laymon's books, despite the sickening depravity of them.  Beast House though is just...uninteresting.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The waxworks were so realistic. <br/>Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...<br/><br/>The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.<br/><br/>Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty damn lame. Can't believe I wasted my time. I'm a sucker for horror books though.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Beast House]]>
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    <![CDATA[The waxworks were so realistic. <br/>Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...<br/><br/>The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.<br/><br/>Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.<br/><br/>]]>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Could not wait to read it after reading The Cellar.]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this was a good fast read. Full of action &amp; suspense.]]></body>
    
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