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Summary: Poppy Z. Brite, Lost souls
Review: This had to be the greatest book of vampires i have ever read. I had borrowed the book from one of my friends on a wednesday, and didn't put it down untill thrusday morning. It left me spellbound and since then i have read it at least 5 times. Some people say that the book lacks in character and whatnot, but i don't think anything of the sort. It is well writen, and with all the detail she gives can keep readers spellbound for hours on end. For anyone who has not read this book, i recomend it highest above anything else. Mike
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Summary: Truly Amazing
Review: This book had to have been the single best book Ive ever read in my life. A masterpeice. Poppy Z. Brite is a genius.
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Summary: READ IT.
Review: I fell in love with Poppy Z Brite 2 years ago, when i was 15 and read Lost Souls. A battered, dog eared copy was given to me, reeking of clove cigarettes, when i was sitting under the bleachers of my 10th grade gym class, escaping the florida heat. I opened it on a Friday and closed it on a saturday. I stayed up all night Friday reading it, in my bed. Never closing it. Read it in the bathtub, even. I can't remember EVER loving a book that much. Brite's brisk, graphic, extreamly modern style of writting knocks you flat on your butt and hits the wind outta ya. And you beg for more. I have since read Drawing Blood, Exquisit Corpse, Wormwood, both Love in Veins, and her biography of Courtney Love. All of them breathtaking books, but none of them hit me the way Lost Souls did. I fell in love with Ghost. I would like to read more about him. Poppy, Poppy...keep them coming. Keep ripping to shreads the walls of your genre. Give us DRUGS AND SEX, ROCK N ROLL and VAMPIRES. Your children of the night crave it. And we thank you for it.
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Summary: A 'can't put down' book.
Review: I thought this was one of the most wonderful vampire novels I have read. Poppy Brite modernizes the vampire in the most magnetic way, and always leaves a aroma of erotisism attached. If you are a goth, love vampire literature, or a lover of all things dark, you're going to want this book.
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Summary: Good book for Goth types
Review: I first read this book when I was fourteen years old (about four years ago)and it has since been one of my favourites. The plot is simple enough to understand but complex enough to keep you reading. The characters are cool but the best part of the book is the way it's written: Like a novel length poem.
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Summary: Teen angst meets bad metaphor after bad metaphor--surprise!
Review: Poppy Z. Brite has added nothing to the world of vampiric horror with this little number, which is sad, considering that she starts out with a few interesting characters: Christian, the antiquaited vampire with a soft heart; Ghost, the psychic rocker-wannabe; and Steve, the semi-abusive friend of Ghost. As for the all-too self-conciously clever named "Nothing"---didn't we ALL go through these "boo-hoo I don't belong" feelings back in junior high? And didn't you end up diddling your Vampire father in a mysterious black van too? As for Nothing's Vampire father Zillah--he's more laughable than anything, and about as "dangerous" as a drunk frat-rat at the MTV summer beach-house. Perhaps even worse, Brite's language is of the "typical" vampire nature: over-the-top romanticism about blood, a gratutious Goth soundtrack ala' Bauhaus and the Cure, hackneyed religious connotations forced into every sentence, etc. etc. Brite was much more ambitious with her follow-up, "Drawing Blood", and, therefore, considerably more sucessful in a writerly manner. Horror fans, shelf this one. My kid sister wrote it in her "Trent Reznor" phase of 8th grade. I wrote it in my "Christian Death" phase of 9th. When did YOU write YOUR version?
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Summary: Don't buy it!
Review: This book is so much garbage. Please don't waste your time or your money
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Summary: Best vampire book I've ever read. Nothing can touch it.
Review: My friend, a gothic young man who, I guess I could say I loved, handed me the book one day and said, Raver,(which is what he called me) you gotta' read this. I started reading it on that friday afternoon. I was busy that weekend, but on Sunday night, I sat down to read it. I stayed up 'till two in the morning just to finish it. The all time best vampire book I have ever read, period. Extremely worthwhile. If I owned it, I would have memorized it by now.
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Summary: Something is definately lacking......
Review: Lost Soul's is a well written, highly stylised piece of literature. However, it just seems to lack what virtually every other horror novel published these days lacks..........HORROR When will we ever be graced with a book that is truely terrifying. By the looks of things, sadly perhaps never... I dont recall a time when i was actually frightened during "Lost Souls". thats not to say its bad, quite the opposite. I just wish someone will actually come out with something that truely makes me shiver.
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Summary: Welcome to the land of sex, blood and rock n' roll, eh?
Review: I bought this book on pure fluke. Sassy magazine (when it was still cool) did a profile on this beautiful woman with red hair and fishnets and Docs, and the blurb spoke of her newest book (at that time) "Drawing Blood", describing it as a "haunted house love story." Sounded interesting, but they also mentioned she'd written a vampire road trip from hell book called "Lost Souls." Hmmmm, I thought. Vampires. I like vampires. So I bought it the very next day.Possibly, this was the best decision I've ever made in concerns to a book purchase, because Poppy Z. Brite kicked my a**, knocked me to the floor, hauled me back up, and kicked my a** again. Never before have I read a "horror" (I use that term somewhat sarcastically) novel that was writen as dark and lush as "Lost Souls" was. Normally, I would hate the pop culture references, but then I realized this was because most horror is written and by old, white men. Even Anne Rice was downright embarassing in The Vampire Lestat/The Queen of the Damned (though the latter is one of my faves) with her rock band and concerts and everything. Ew. Brite kicks Rice's a**, first off, and second, she's one of *us* -- and that makes all the difference in the world. I fell in love with Nothing, Ghost and most of all, Zillah, the doomed vampire, who walked into Ghost's house with a baseball bat (which he had grabbed from Steve, granted) and a grin and proceeded to wreak havoc unlike I have ever enjoyed before. Eyes like limes, pierced and tattooed and downright *mean* -- this character could carry an entire series on his own. Damn shame, really. This book is one of my all-time favorites, and I recommend it to everyone I come across. Read it, and be amazed.
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