Drawing Blood

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Summary: An Amazing Dive Into The Human Soul
Review: Drawing Blood is an amazing dive into the human soul. It's as if Poppy z Brite looked into the souls of two young men, and wrote what she saw on paper. This books was hauntingly rich, and darkly disturbing. The characters were built so well, i felt like I actually knew them. Anyone who does not like this bokk, did not read it. Praise to Poppy z. Brite!!

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Summary: The book of my dreams
Review: A cold heart learns to love, a dead soul learns to live again...this has to be the most romantic novel I ever read. With the suspence of a Stephen King novel, the most hilarious humour I've ever encountered in a (so called) horror book ,achingly beautiful eroticism - and just a little bit of the Twin Peaks atmosphere thrown in as well - creating a whole that is nonetheless entirely Poppy's own. There will never be another writer quite like her. My all time favorite book...P.S- Drawing Blood addicts - you really ought to read the new Zach &Trevor story "Vine Of The Soul" from her -98 anthology "Are You Loathsome Tonight" - you will NOT be disappointed - say no more!

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Summary: A must for people with open minds and a longing dark side.
Review: All I can say about this book is that it moved me. Drawing Blood was actually the first book I ever read by Poppy. I was lost in her words from the first moment I opend the book. I have never been much of a fiction reader but when I read Drawing Blood I felt as if I were in it. It hits pretty close to home, myself being from North Carolina. I wished there was such a place as Missing Mile . After I read Drawing Blood I went out and got Lost Souls and had the same reaction. I even Had vivid dreams about Birdland Trevor and Zach. Her characters have such life. They have real personalitys. The gay sex in this novel was done so great that it made me change some of my veiwes on love between two males. I highly recommend this book for people who are thinking about getting Into Poppy. Even though it is not her first book she ever wrote it is definatly a good one to start with!

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Summary: From the shadows she came, and in the darkness she reigned..
Review: Ever since I managed to get Lost Souls, Poppy Z Brite has been one of my favorite authors...Drawing Blood is the perfect erotic horror story...you have your gore at the beginning, your head games in the middle, a little love, and alot of freakiness at the end...The imagery of Missing Mile and the pictures of New Orleans make me miss the south--the warm sweet air of the bayou, dark dank cemetaries, and good ol' Cajun cooking...Finally an author that makes you think, and seems to get in your head and know how to keep you in the uknown territory of the subconscious...

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Summary: This book was a slow reader but it was worth it
Review: When I was reading the first few chapters I thought that I didn't like the book, but eventually I got into the characters and then i couldn't put it down. The story was more of a wonderful love story than a horror novel. The second half of the book though where the horror really began was the best. I'd recommend this book to my friends.

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Summary: what can i say? The best book i've ever read!
Review: I read Lost Souls about a year ago and couldn't put it down, I just recently bought Drawing Blood, and I literally read all of it that day. Her imagery is so real, you feel like you're someone standing there watching what's going on. Truly, a great accomplishment from the best author this decade.

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Summary: Poppy does it again
Review: Once again, the talented Mrs. Brite gives us a delicous morsel to devour through the pages of Drawing Blood. I am a newer fan of Poppy's work, having read Lost Souls, this one, and exquisite corpse. This is my favorite of the three. If she keeps this up, she will never have to worry about angry fans. Never.

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Summary: Does it get any better than this?
Review: I have been a fan of Poppy Z. Brite since I first read Drawing Blood about a year and a half ago. I have read all of Brite's other works since, and although I love them all, none compare to Drawing Blood. I can honestly say that I've re-read this book over twenty times, and I get more out of it every time. Brite's style is surrealistic and believable, her prose flowing and intoxicating, her plot heart-breakingly beautiful and intriguing. Brite's union of a love story and a horror story is so perfectly matched that there is no seperation between these two focuses of the plot, and I have never read a book that could evoke so much emotion in me without seeming as if evoking emotion was the point of the book. Basically, anything that comes close just seems like it's trying too hard.

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Summary: ridiculous
Review: when I was a teenager, i was so into these gothic/marilyn manson clownish books. On the level of taking these kinds of books seriously, lost souls was better, but not that great of a book either.

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Summary: Please add more stars- 5 just don't suffice.
Review: Despite its trappings of horror, this book is not primarily about ghosts, or violence, or any of the other cliched mainstays of the genre, but about the characters. Poppy Z. Brite is the best descriptive writer that I have ever encountered - she pulls you into the scenes that she imagines, changing them from printed words to sensory memories. Half the time, I find myself re-reading her words thinking "oh, yeah, that is how it smells/tastes/feels!" For example - I read this book when I was sixteen, single and lonely. I thought that her descriptions of the relations between the characters were both painfully evocative (in terms of unrequited love/lust - remember being sixteen?) and impossibly perfect (in regards to the requited emotions). Then, a couple of years later, after finally falling in love, I can remember looking up and thinking "this is awfully familiar" - but the familiarity was not due to any personal experience, but rather to the me! mory of her words, as experienced by her characters. All in all, it is the most honest novel that I have ever encountered in terms of the reality of human interactions. All of the descriptions are remarkable, but particularly those concerning love , both physical and metaphysical. Personally, I think that it is the best work that she has produced to date - so whether you've enjoyed her previous work or not, try this one - all that you're risking is five dollars, and you stand to gain a great deal more than that.