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Summary: wow!
Review: a friend of mine recommended Lost Souls. i bought the book and it just sat around and collected dust for a few months. i finally picked it up and couldn't put it down. very few books interest me the way this book did. i felt like i was in missing mile, nc hanging out with ghost and steve. i think everyone should be forced to read this book.
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Summary: Are you vampiresque tonight?
Review: Well, the athmosphere is the right shade of black, and I love the charachters of Ghost and Nothing...but what's is all about?
Too much gore, too many unpleasant charachters, and the gloom isn't even justified by ancestral lore. Yeah, maybe vampire stories just aren't my cup of tea. If you want a very original vampire story, rooted in mythology, read Burying the shadow of Storm Constantine
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Summary: A thrilling and dark saga with hidden shadows
Review: Now in a tenth anniversary edition and expanded with an additional chapter, Lost Souls was Poppy Z. Brite's debut vampire novel about a young boy, conceived during Mardi Gras, whose mother died in childbirth and whose adoptive parents raise him with the name given by the parents he has never known: Nothing. Young Nothing must leave home and search out the truth of his family, in this thrilling and dark saga with hidden shadows and glimpses into what the real meaning of origin is. Lost Souls is a highly recommended contribution to the growing canon of vampire fiction.
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Summary: Lost Souls
Review: This book was absolutly amazing, one of the best vampire books I have ever read. This book doesnt have a ton of characters in it, so you dont have to many names to remember. I also love the sexual content between the people in the story. Ghost is a very interesting person, he has a "gift" that proves to be interesting throughout the story. Christian is probably my favorite character though, he very deep, and mysterious. I definatly reccomend this book, as well as anything else that poppy z. brite has written.
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Summary: A Lovely and Sensual Horror
Review: Lost Souls is my favorite vampire horror. It is more terrifying than Salem's Lot and definitely more alluring and bewitching than Anne Rice's Vampire Series. Lost Souls was written in 1992 but till today still transcends most contemporary horros in terms of plot and characters. Lost Souls shines with its own unique emotional intensity that most contemporary horrors sadly lack. Brite's Vampires are unique personalities and she did such a brilliant job describing and justifying their lusts that I sympathize with them - haunted Christian, amoral Zillah, mindless Molochai and Twig and of course Nothing who has to learn to live with his aloneness among his kind. I was hoping for a better ending for Nothing but I guess Brite knows best. Ghost is of course my favorite character and I seldom have any in horrors. I will remember Ghost because of his love for Steve, his care for Nothing and Anne and his genuine goodness and vulnerability. I only with there is more of Lost Souls but one is always wistful when a book is as great as Lost Souls... Lost Souls will remain my favorite as long as I continue to read...
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Summary: Pretty damn good
Review: This is an excellent book. Ghost and Zillah are definitely my favorite characters. I love Ghost's almost childlike vulnerability, his sense of "magic", and his relationship with Steve. Zillah is beautiful, seductive, and strangely refreshing in that he doesn't have the guilt complex that, for example, Anne Rice's vampires suffer from. Though he wasn't my favorite character, I felt so bad for Christian, especially in the scene with the Chartreuse. I love Poppy Z.'s language, the emotion in the book, and how she brought the characters to life. However, the book has a few downsides, and one of them in particular is a very, very big downside: Nothing. I suppose young teens could relate to him, but his desires to be "different" and to rebel against his parents just seemed so childish among a novel of wonderful and vivid characters.Also, the constant goth culture references, and the KUDZU, got so damned annoying. Though this book can't compare with Anne Rice's early works (the best vampire fiction, in my opinion) it is definitely worth reading and re-reading.
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Summary: Wow
Review: Sometimes a book hits you so hard that you don't have words to describe the emotions it evoked. Lost Souls, poppy Z Brite's first novel, is definitely one of those books.We are given three sets of main characters. The first is the trio of vampires, Molochai, Twig and Zillah. The are dirty, redneck vampires, rough and rotten. The second charter, who can't really be a set all on his own, is Nothing. He is Zillah's baby, but they don't know that when they become lovers. The third set of characters is the Missing Mile Crew, Steve, Ghost, and Ann. Ghost has ESP in a very big way. Unfortunately he finds that he can't help everyone. Sometimes he can only feel their pain and turn from it before it swallows him too. I don't care what anyone says about Steve. he wasn't a bad guy. he went too heavy on the drinking and that caused him some problems, but he wasn't a villain like some other reviewers *coughs* *one star hinted. Sure, he raped Ann, but the sad part was that he still loved, he tried to make things better. The story is fairly twisted and you have to be in a sort of dark mind set to read it, but you don't have to be a goth. you also don't have to be a social outcast. if you like a book with characters you can love and feel for, or if you liked something with twisted, dark romance, or just something different, I defiantly recommend this.
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Summary: Ahh... sigh...!
Review: I'm mildly obsessed with this book. It was found by accident in the supermarket checkout. I've now been through four copies of the book -- they've been loaned to other people (never to be seen again) and in one case read to the point where the pages split from the seam. This book is never far from my bed and the pages are worn soft from repeated readings. I don't even read the whole thing now. I can automatically turn to my favourite sections. Where would I be without Ghost?
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Summary: Lost Souls
Review: First, let's get one thing straight. I do not usually write gushing reviews. As a confirmed bibliophile, I have read hundreds, perhaps thousands of books of all genres. Out of all these, maybe five have ever moved me to tears. This is one of them. I picked this up thinking it was going to be a light creepy vampire read. Instead, I became so emotionally involved with the characters that I think of them like real people. Nothing's struggle to find a family, Ann's descent into insanity, the love that Steve and Ghost share- it is all just breathtaking. Read this book right away, then move on to Drawing Blood. (That is another of the five that have made me cry. It's as good as this book, in some ways better.) I'm really hoping for a sequel. I could read about Steve and Ghost for the rest of my life. Bravo, Poppy, bravo!
P.S. To this Ben Cassidy person who compared Lost Souls to Anne Rice books, that is blasphemy. Anne Rice could never hope to be half the writer that Poppy Z. Brite is.
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Summary: This is my favourite book ever!
Review: I have read this book 2-3 times. Nothing beats the first time reading it. I could not put it down! I love this book. If I could, I would marry it!
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