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    To Wake The Dead
    To Wake The Dead
    To Wake The Dead
    Audiobook13 hours

    To Wake The Dead

    Written by Richard Laymon

    Narrated by Gene Engene

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Amara was once the beautiful Princess of Egypt. Now, 4000 years later, she and her coffin are merely prized exhibits of the Charles Ward Museum. If you were to look at her today, you would see only a brittle bundle of bones and dried skin. But looks can be very deceiving, as Barney, the museum's night watchman, finds out. . . . Barney is the first to make the shocking discovery that the mummy's coffin has been broken open. But he doesn't have a chance to do anything about it. Amara is once again freed from the cramped confines of her coffin, free to walk the earth. Free to kill. Nothing can satisfy her bloodlust. And no one can stop her. You cannot kill what is already dead.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateSep 15, 2006
    ISBN9781596077249
    To Wake The Dead
    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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    • 1/5
      What if characters from a porno movie were stuck in a lackluster horror plot? This.

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    • 3/5
      Narrator was not a good fit for this book. The dungeon subplot could have been a book of its own and was the best part of the book.
    • 2/5
      "Do you want to do it?"
      "Absolutely not."
      "Yes you do."
      This book is about incredibly unlikeable and possibly brain damaged hicks having this argument, repeatedly and at length, for enormous stretches of the narrative. There's also a hard-boiled detective and his Egyptologist girlfriend investigating a mummy that's biting people. Shockingly, this only serves as a framing device and the main focus is on the awful idiots arguing over gross sex.
    • 1/5
      Really stupid book, like a horney 10 year old wrote it
    • 4/5
      I have long been a lover of horror books, but only recently have I decided to step up my horror game. I have been getting more involved with instagram and facebook groups, and have learned about tons of horror books and authors that I didn't know about. Richard Laymon is one of those authors.

      I picked up To Wake the Dead at a used book story. I thought it would be a good story about a mummy running amok. Boy was I wrong. This book is crazy! So many plots that only loosely come together at the end. It was like reading several books in one. I described this book to my friend as the one that has a mummy and a crazy sex dungeon. Those were the two most striking subplots to me. There is also a really annoying bit about some runaway teens trying to get to Hollywood. Blech. The little sister was awful. I could have done without this bit.

      I really enjoyed the flash back, in the form of journal entries, to the discovery of the mummy, Amara. That part was fascinating. I loved reading about the archeological digs in Egypt.

      It is hard to describe my feelings for this book. I read it quickly, in just over one day. It was very entertaining, and full of WTF moments. I really wasn't expecting so much sex, and the sheer kinkiness of it all. But I guess that is one of Laymon's trademarks. I am looking forward to reading more books by Laymon in the near future.
    • 1/5
      Amara was one of the first book rings I signed up for through BookCrossing. The ring got stalled or lost along the way, so I purchased my own copy. Finally after having the book sitting on my shelves, I've bothered to read the book. Frankly, I wish I hadn't.Amara the rampaging, blood thirsty mummy has very little to do with the over all plot of the book, save for killing off a bunch of otherwise pointless characters late in the book. The bulk of the story is actually a bunch of poorly written, ill-conceived erotica. There's a house with a basement where kidnapped people (of both genders) are being raped through plastic barriers but the experience is so pleasurable that they actually enjoy their situation (um, yeah, sure) and there's an Egyptian Copt who is apparently God's gift to womankind. So in between the Copt's sexual exploits and the torture in the basement, the actual plot of the curator and her detective boyfriend tracking down Amara before she can kill again lumbers along.Frankly the book bored me to tears. Erotica. just isn't my thing and the sex in this book seemed to be the only point. Of all of the books I've read this year, Amara is one of the worst.
    • 3/5
      KurzbeschreibungVor langer Zeit war sie eine Herrscherin. Jetzt ist sie nur noch eine vertrocknete Mumie. Bis die Siegel zerbrochen werden, die sie in ihrem Sarkophag gefangenhalten. Die Untote macht sich auf einen blutigen Rachefeldzug durch das heutige Kalifornien.Über den AutorRichard Laymon wurde 1947 in Chicago geboren und studierte in Kalifornien englische Literatur. Er arbeitete als Lehrer, Bibliothekar und Zeitschriftenredakteur, bevor er sich ganz dem Schreiben widmete und zu einem der bestverkauften Spannungsautoren aller Zeiten wurde. 2001 gestorben, gilt Laymon heute in den USA und Großbritannien als Horror-Kultautor, der von Schriftstellerkollegen wie Stephen King und Dean Koontz hoch geschätzt wird. (amazon.de)Meine MeinungIn diesem Buch wurden von Richard Laymon mehrere Handlungsstränge auf den letzten Seiten zusammengefügt. Einmal gehts hier um die Mumie Amara die nach einem Siegelbruch ihr Unwesen treibt. Dann gibt es noch die Geschichte um Ed der sich plötzlich gefangen in einen Käfig wiederfindet und als eine Art Sklave gehalten wird. Und dann kommt noch die Handlung von Grace und ihrer Schwester Pix sowie ihren Freund Cody ins Spiel.Mir waren es hier zu viele Personen. Man verlor teilweise schon die Übersicht und bei den Handlungssträngen waren es mir auch zu viele. Dachte ich nach dem Klappentext das es hier hauptsächlich um die Mumie gehen sollte, wurde man beim lesen mit mehreren Handlungen konfrontiert.Ansonsten fand ich es ganz ok. Der Schreibstil war gut und es ließ sich flüssig lesen. Blutig, wie Laymon halt immer so ist, nur die Sex-Szenen fehlten in diesem Fall hier einmal.Ich vergebe hier 3,5 Sterne.
    • 4/5
      Something a little different from Richard Laymon... As a matter of fact, as I worked my way through the first 50 pages or so, I actually wondered if the book was even written by Laymon (especially since the novel was published a year after Laymon's death in 2001). It didn't take long after that point in the book to put those thoughts to rest as it took off in classic Laymon style (i.e., gore, violence, sex, great characterization, and a non-stop, action-filled plot).The story revolves around the Egyptian mummy, Amara, and suspicious murders that begin to take place in the museum that houses her body. When police find Amara's coffin lid open, the body missing, and strange markings and hair fragments on the dead body of a nightwatchman, the mystery begins to take shape. When another set of murders take place with the same MO, police and museum officials begin to question whether supernatural forces might be at work. Surely there couldn't be any connection between the deaths and the thousand-year old mummy, could there?Laymon does a great job providing the reader with a number of diverse subplots and interesting characters that all come together in the end. Of the twenty or so Laymon novels that I've read, "To Wake the Dead" may have the most complex plot because of all of those sidebars. Because of this and the great cast of characters in TWTD, the book now ranks in my top 10 of favorite Laymon stories. Yes, it's a little different than some of his other works, but I would feel confident in saying that most of Laymon's fans will really enjoy this book. NOTE: A later publication of the book is entitled "Amara".
    • 3/5
      This book took about four days to read, not really because it was a good book but it took my mind off recent events. It was recommended to me by a girl I went to school with after my review on the last Stephen King novel I read.The basis of this story is an age-old tale about the cursed mummies walking the earth after thousands of years and wreeking their vengeance. The main plot was good, but it was the side stories that (finally) joined up at the end that had me confused and wondering if the book had been a misprint of more than one.His story telling and descriptive nature is very good, much like King especially around the gore and splatter, but what is his fascination with gratuitous (and sometime sado-masochistic) sex? Not that I mind sex myself, but it seemed somewhat 80s in its mix of horror and rumpy-pumpy. And if he can paint a picture on slash, he certainly has done his homework on the finer points of blowjobs!Not bad, but not great. However in the interest of giving the guy a fair go, and because he was referred, I will get out another of his novels to see if it was just a bad’un.