- Mass Market Paperback: 306 pages
- Publisher: Dorchester Leisure
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0843950846
- ISBN-13: 978-0843950847
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.9 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 154 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,094,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Some people don't seem to realize....,
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This review is from: Laughing Man (Mass Market Paperback)
"Laughing Man" is the fifth in Mr. Wright's "Strange Seed" ("children of the earth") series, begun, of course, with "Strange Seed" (1978, Everest House, then pb by Playboy and TOR Books), and followed by "Nursery Tale," "The Children of the Island," and "The People of the Dark." Those who haven't read at least one of these books won't completely understand "Laughing Man." I've read all of them and I found "Laughing Man" quite absorbing.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable But Falls Apart,
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This review is from: Laughing Man (Mass Market Paperback)
In "Laughing Man", one could argue that the story falls apart the same as the character does. That his world spirals into madness and confusion, and we, as readers, are expected to take the ride with him. Okay, that's fine. I understand. But confusion does not satisfy my need for a solid, scary story. I'm someone who needs a payoff. Yes, the book is well written and starts off very powerful, but I had to work hard to get through the last 100 pages. I usually love this writer, and although I was still entertained by "Laughing Man", I would recommend some of T.M.'s other work for new readers. "The Last Vampire" and "Sleepeasy" are both much better.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Pretentious and overly elliptical,
By F. J. Harvey "Cricket ,country music and a go... (Birmingham England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Laughing Man (Mass Market Paperback)
Jack Erthmun ,the protagonist of this book ,is an NYPD homicide detective of deeply unothodox hue.A sufferer from echolalia-a tendency to repeat the last words of what the last person said to him -he is withdrawn ,solitary and has working methods that trouble his superiors.He seems almost to bond with the dead-------he "hears" them speak andthey feed him clues .He is assigned to a series of notably brutal killings--the victims have chocolate stuffed into their mouths and have been cannibalised.The slayers are a series of women who are clearly not of natural origin ,and there are clear signs that Jack himself is linked in some way to them ,and may himself be the product of a union between his mother and one of these creatures who home is in the woods near the family residence in the Adirondacks. The book -initially tightly controlled and unsettling -spirals out of control and gets more and more ambiguous as it develops .Indeed the open ended conclusion suggests to me that Mr Wright himself did not know how to end the book .
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