![]() ![]() The story is told chronologically, in first person narrated by Dwight, which adds to its immediacy and makes for an exciting story. ![]() Rusty rounds out the trio as the more stock character, the overweight, selfish and cowardly teen. The focus of the story is 16 year-old Dwight, and the heart of the novel is in its characters, in Laymon's realistic depiction of a horny teenage boy, and his crush on his girl friend Slim, who changes her name every time she reads a new novel. The Traveling Vampire Show is the story of three teenage friends and their one-day adventure revolving around - what else? - a traveling Vampire show. The Traveling Vampire Show is also one of his tamer novels - certainly there was nothing graphically disturbing about it - but since reading it, I've managed to locate at least six other Laymon titles, and I look forward to reading them in the same enthusiastic fashion that I read The Traveling Vampire Show. ![]() ![]() I'd just discovered his work and then began to hear the controversy - how his graphic novels were perhaps a bit too graphic, that they were, for many, profoundly disturbing, almost humorous in a winking, let's-share-a-secret sort of way. The Traveling Vampire Show was my first Laymon novel, surprisingly enough. ![]()
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