Lost Souls

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Summary: The best book...
Review: I've read this book 4 times in under a year. I honestly think that it will be as big as "Interview". I wish there was a movie. If anyone out there has never read this book, read it, you won't be dissapointed.

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Summary: Maybe I just don't get it
Review: I'm not into Goth and I'm pretty sick of vampires, but I've heard so much about Poppy Brite and how much of a revolutionary writer she is that I've read all four of her books so far. Still, I wonder what it is I'm missing. None of her books have impressed me too much, but this particular story didn't captivate me at all. The events came together so perfectly and coincidentally that fate seemed to play a bigger role than the characters in the story. Ms. Brite's language is beautiful, and her images are stunning, but when it comes down to story (at least with this novel), she didn't put enough in to the book.

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Summary: I wanted to join their world.
Review: I fell in love with this book as I read the prologue, and I have read it three or four times since. Such a beautifully captured world of blood and love. It sounds kind of lame, but I really wanted to be with these characters. I love it when authors build their writing around one little town and a particular group of characters. It makes me feel like I have something in common with the author, like we know the same people or something... Read her other novels, experience the same feeling.

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Summary: An intriguing explosion of gothic erotica terror + mystery!
Review: Never in all my years has a book actually gripped me so feircley that I can't blink. Putting this novel down was like lifting a hundred gorified corpses. This book enlightened the sense of my own vampiric passionate mind and soul, as it will yours. Gothicly intriguing. As a Lost Soul there is no better feeling than to discover an author with such an acute sense of "gothic pleasure". Talismanic faces, rainbow-lit streets, crimson rivers, and fervid sex, all of which you can smell because of Ms. Brite

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Summary: My favorite book, poeticly written.
Review: This book is probably my favorite book. Poppy is a great writer, she doesn't only make me see what she writes, I smell it as well (which isn't allways very positive)

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Summary: THE GOTHIC YOUTHS BIBLE
Review: This book is revolutionary in it's genre. It takes horror beyond fear and into the heart of vampireism. It is the only book I will ever truly recommend

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Summary: pretty boys,vampires,& sex.what more could you want?
Review: WARNING:If you do not want to get sucked into a book, then do not read Lost Souls. This is horror. This is seduction. This is your fears. This is Poppy Z. Brite, and her book Lost Souls is a twisted cocktail of all of the above. She pulls you into the grim vortex of her mind and introduces you to a world where the boys are all pretty, the four main food groups are chartreuse, clove cigarettes,candy and a variety of bodily fluids, and your friends are your lovers and your killers. There is sex, gore, and vampires. If this isn't goth, someone tell me what is. What else could you want in a book?

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Summary: Has its faults, but not bad
Review: My main problems with this book are a) its formless, wandering plot, and b)the utter lack of intelligent female characters in *all* of Poppy's books. The vampires are barely characterized at all except for Nothing and Christian. In fact, the onlycharacters who get more than a vague description are Steve and Ghost, who are really the sole reason I read this book over and over. I LOVE them, especially Ghost. They have the most beautiful, bizarre relationship (they're more than friends, not quite lovers, almost brothers) and are, to be honest, the only truly likeable people in this book (yes, even Steve, who can be a jerk at times). I wish Ms. Brite would write more books about *them*. -Twilight

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Summary: Understanding the Dark Side of Us
Review: Poppy Z. Brite is an author of extraordinary talent! She is brilliant! Her writing is basically the only I've ever read where I actually experience ALL 5 senses! I've never read an author who could make me feel, taste, touch, see, and EVEN SMELL things so clearly before. It's hard to pin-point how she does this so well, but who needs to pin-point it, anyway? Poppy is a writer who TRULY understands our dark sides, and in reading it you may understand it more yourself. As for this novel, her first, it is one of the most entertaining books I've ever read -- and I read it fast, a little depressed after finishing it, wishing it could be a never-ending story. As for the content of the book, it takes the reader through the lives of two members of the band, Lost Souls, and a family of non-traditional vampires: Zillah, Malochai, Twig, and Nothing. Nothing is, more-or-less, the main character. He is a teenager who's just discovering his roots. Basically, to understand the book, you merely nee

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Summary: Absolutely amazing.
Review: There have been very few times I have set down with a book and been totally blown away. This was one of those times. The prose, the characters, everything about the book makes you feel like you've opened a doorway into another world every bit as real as this one. That is what made this book so terrifying for me. I loved every bit of it...Poppy Z. Brite will be around for a long, long time on the strength of this book alone