Lost Souls

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Summary: A totally amazing story!
Review: This book is one of the best I've every read. I couldn't put it down. I would read at least 3-4 chapters a night (and that's saying something because I don't read alot). This book kept me at the edge of my seat. The plot was great, the characters were cool, and Poppy's writing style is amazing.

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Summary: So cool and green/crazy / beautiful
Review: Last year my English teacher told me a short story I had written reminded him of Poppy Z Brite. I had never heard of her,so I went and bought "Lost Souls." I couldn't believe anyone could write something so perfect; I've read it so much the pages are all scarred/smudged and it's swollen to double it's size. Read it always and it says something phsycic and so RIGHT! Courtney Love is my favourite artist and I knew the minute a biography about her was coming out who it would be by. I'm not an obsessive or a friend-seeking hermit, but everyone in this book is so perfect and alive, I wish they were all real. To anyone who has any sort of soul or emotions, you will just cry and cry. This is so beautiful.

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Summary: As Good As It Gets!
Review: There's not much more to say that can describe this book! The characters, the plot, everything is great! I will not go on about the story, I'm sure you have read it repetedly throughout the other reviews. But I will say this to "A reader from Chicago, IL," after reading your review I sat back and wondered how an "adult" would write such an immature comment such as yours! Poppy, you truely are the Goddess of fiction!!!

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Summary: I loved every bit of it, just as in P.Z. Brite's other books
Review: I've never read a book that I was so dissolved in that the end of the book made me cry.I was always longing to be reading the book so I carried it to school and even(...gasp!...)got off the phone so i could read it. I found myself in each of the characters-my confusion in Nothing, my instinct to look out for others in Ghost. I even felt sympathy for Zillah, the antagonist. If you like Poppy's other books you'll love this one!! This was REALLY a great book...I wish the story could go on forever.

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Summary: a very enchanting book(loved the parts that mention the Cure
Review: This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. I very quickly fell in love with the characters, especially Nothing and Ghost. This book allows the reader to go through the same emotions as the characters, the loneliness, the anger, the pain. Poppy Brite has a wonderfully poetic writing style which is very refreshing to see. Also, any fans of the Cure can appriciate the references to Robert Smith.

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Summary: This is so bad it's not even funny
Review: This is what you get when you put a high school kid behind a computer -- some wild fantasy about how cool it is to have sex w/ men and (!) women (ooooh) while drinking (!!) lots (!!!) of alcohol (ooooooh again). The characters are pretty cool too, if you're 14 that is, and as a teen you won't even mind the inconsistencies, the bloated language, and you'll probably think violence is pretty cool too. And oh yes, the vampires. Vampires are way cool to. Let's dress up like them and prentend we're drinking blood. If you still suffer from acne and adolescent mood swings and the whole world is out to get you, read this book. If, on the other hand, you are older than 18, forget it and get a *real* novel instead.

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Summary: Lost Souls: Compares to Frankenstein in Style and Quality
Review: As soon as I began reading Lost Souls, I was vividly reminded of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. The two novels have many similarities, namely that the central character in both novels is a misfit in modern society who takes to roaming the countryside in search of their identity. Like Frankenstein, Lost Souls is full of intense, captivating imagery and has a multiple-threaded story line which converges at the end of the novel. Also like Frankenstein, Lost Souls occasionally experiences inconsistancies in style, and some of the characters are not quite as dynamic as they could be. Overall, however, Lost Souls is a very strong first novel for Poppy Z. Brite and it is well worth the read.

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Summary: Addictive...absorbant...
Review: I read this book in under a day...it's characters have such rich stories...it sucks you in and makes you really feel for the characters...it makes you wish you were in the story and living their lives...definitely recommended for everyone...

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Summary: Excellent book, recommended...
Review: Beautifully written, intense, thick and detailed wording...
quality matched to Anne Rice or Chelsa Quinn Yarbro...
along with her other books, her characters become addictive, realistic, believable...
you can easily find yourself attached to charaters like Nothing or Ghost...
even one not into the "gothic" style of writting can find this an intreguing book to devour...


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Summary: The anthem for misfits
Review: Lost Souls is a beautiful, melancholic, bittersweet story of people searching for their place to belong. The story is dripping with thick and rich sexuality and beautifully depicted violence as overly aggressive Steve, psychic Ghost, hurt and confused Anne, and orphaned vampire Nothing must plunge into the darkest corners of their souls to find their place in the world. The characters are dissected and layed on the table, exposed and vulnerable, and the reader can not stop themself from falling into them, their desires, their secrets, their pain, and their love. The contrast between the old vampire Christian and the lively vampire trio of Zillah, Molochai and Twig was interesting and creative. I liked the fact that unlike in tons of other vampire novels, the vampires were a race, seperate entirely from humans, and no one could be converted. And the heart-wrenching birth of innocent yet deadly Nothing seemed very vaguely reminiscent of Claudia in The Vampire Chronicles. The details and background was abs