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Summary: Fantastic! Characters, Plot, Mystery
Review: Poppy Z. Brite delivers a vivid tale peopled by believable rich three-dimensional characters. Trevor and Zach become so real in your mind as you read Drawing Blood that you feel like you know them personally. I want to meet them. Brite has a pure talent for creating people and situations and bringing you through her plot while never losing interest. She weaves her story and takes you into another world.Her care in creating these two flawed damaged characters without falling into the traps of sentimentality, one-dimensionalism, or cliche, makes them vivid in your mind. Read it, and you too will be picturing the scenes, the horror, the house, the town of Missing Mile, and the characters. Reading a book by Poppy Z. is like watching a movie only you can see!
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Summary: THE MOST INTENSE, ENGROSSING BOOK I HAVE EVER READ!
Review: This book kept me glued to the page from beginning to end. I have read it many times and still Poppy's writing keeps my eyes attached to every word. She has a spectacular sense of how to write detail and her characterizations of Zach and Trevor make you feel like you've known them all your life. This is very similar to her charachters Ghost, Steve, and Nothing in her previous book, "Lost Souls", which tends to be toward the more horror genre side, dealing with vampires. "Drawing Blood" is about two beautiful boys who through the hardships of family secrets, abuse, abandonment, and murder learn how also it is possible to fall in love and be close to someone. Other books to look for would be Poppy Z. Brite's, "Lost Souls", "Exquisite Corpse" (a cannibalistic book, also with two men looking for love in strange place), her "Love in Vein"--volumes 1 and 2, and lastly, her "Swamp Foetus".
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Summary: A collection of short horror stories
Review: This was definitely not as good as Poppy's first book Lost Souls. This book is a collection of short horror stories. I found that although a few stories were great such as, "His mouth will taste of Wormwood", and, "The sixth sentinel"; that others just did not hold my attention. Poppy is no doubt one of the best horror authors of her time, and I am among her true following, however this book did not do her justice.
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Summary: YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK!
Review: I consider this to be one of the greatest books ever written. Poppy Z. Brite is so descriptive in her writing that I get so lost in her novels. This is the first one of hers that I read, I got it about 5 years ago, maybe more. It was the hard cover edition and I read it and fell in love with it. Then, like an idiot, I lent it to a friend and I never saw it again. I bought the paperback and i read it so many times that it almost fell apart. I am just so entirely moved by the love story within these pages. I love the way Trevor goes back to his home town to deal with his demons and then Zack just finds his way there. I also completely love the way she works in Steve and Ghost (from Lost Souls) I think for the first couple of weeks after I read Drawing Blood I was afraid to go to the bathroom. I still get a little scared every once in a while looking at the shower curtain rod, he he. As an aspiring writer, I can only hope to write something of this caliber.
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Summary: Long live Poppy!
Review: I recently read "Lost Souls," Poppy Z. Brite's first novel in two two days. Yesterday I purchased "Drawing Blood" and finished all 403 pages of it one sitting. Poppy is now my favorite author of fiction. "Drawing Blood" is a haunted house novel. But where many authors make the mistake of putting the spirited house front and center, Poppy puts it on the back burner. Brought down to an excrutiating simmer, she focuses on her two protagonists. Zach is a hacker on the run who ends up in Missing Mile. Trevor is the only survivor of his father's murderous rampage through the shadowy hallways of the house on Violin Road. Tortured Trevor returns there twenty years later to confront the horrors that still reside within the bloody house. The narrative counts more on vivid descriptions and the beautifully executed relationship of Trevor and Zach, giving this novel far more power, soul, and love that her first fantastic outing. This hypnotic book could have faltered and been ruined by Poppy's lengthy description of Trevor and Zach entering another world. When Anne Rice does this sort of thing, I am bored to death. When Poppy Z. Brite does it, I'm captivated, hanging on to every richly conceived word. It's interesting to ponder the role of women in Poppy's books. In "Lost Souls," Jessy and Ann die, and in "Drawing Blood" Eddy doesn't get what she wants most. In short, Poppy Z. Brite is the most creative and captivating blockbuster novelist of our time. Anne Rice doesn't deserve the title.
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Summary: The smell of cyberspace
Review: Less vampiric than Lost Souls, Drawing Blood conveys a tale about a youngman with a dark past. Trevor is the survivor or a brutal familial murder/suicide committed by his father, Robert McGee. Trevor, like his father, is a writer of a comix called Birdland. When he gets to New Orleans, he meets Zachary Bosch, a computer hacker. They hang out in bars. Travor and Zachary have an unlikely monogamous sexual relationship (the author is female) that brings these two outcasts closer. At one point, they find their way into the cyberspace where they both face their pasts. Trevor meets his father and figures out that they share the same murdering impulses. Drawing Blood embraces all that was once very hip at one point with the body piercing set. She has obvious read William Gibson and John Shirley before setting out on this book. It is good. But this book shows that Poppy Brite is a better writer of vampire stories than just another cyberpunk follower.
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Summary: Nobody Touches Poppy!
Review: I picked up Drawing Blood because I had already read (and loved) "Lost Souls," her debut. As I paid for it, I hoped it would be as well-written. It was better! Poppy somehow manages to be extremely detailed but still really relatable and understandable. The book follows Zachary Bosch-- a computer hacker on the run-- and Trevor McGee-- whose father murdered his mother and little brother when he was five-- to the small town of Missing Mile. Sometimes gory, sometimes shocking, but always painfully beautiful, this book is amazing. It makes you really glad Poppy Z. Brite didn't become a chef.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: I recently read this book, not quite sure why I picked it up. This book has one huge strength: character development. Brite makes the reader feel like they know these characters, intimately.
Although the plot could have been better, it still is a great read. In my humble opinion, I think Brite has a true gift and talent!
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Summary: A collection of short horror stories
Review: This was definitely not as good as Poppy's first book Lost Souls. This book is a collection of short horror stories. I found that although a few stories were great such as, "His mouth will taste of Wormwood", and, "The sixth sentinel"; that others just did not hold my attention. Poppy is no doubt one of the best horror authors of her time, and I am among her true following, however this book did not do her justice.
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Summary: Not a Horror Novel
Review: Although the book is fairly well-written, it certainly is not a good thriller or horror novel. There is very little suspense in the whole book. For the most part, the book is a rather boring character development.
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