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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read
Review: Drawing Blood has got to be one of the best books of any genre that I have ever read. To me she is what it was I was yearning for while I was reading Anne Rice books, I wanted the detail A.R. gives, but P.Z.B. makes me FEEL the surrounding she is describing.
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Summary: If you can get it cheap...
Review: It's better than her first, but it's still pretty adolescent, and the gay sex thing gets awfully old after the first two chapters or so (yes, we know; it's soo kinky). Read it if you're a 16-y.o. virgin with an alone-against-the-world-complex, or feeling like one. Not much of a horror novel, but makes for good beach fodder.
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Summary: perfect for the odd reader
Review: This book has a great plot along with the fantastic display of the author"s imagination. Poppy Z. Brite has an imaculate writing skill I LOVE THIS BOOK
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Summary: All I can say is, WOW!
Review: Poppy managed to do something very strange and interesting with this book. While it's not as great as Lost Souls, it is more engaging and graphic. Most books I read are the type where you know the ending before you get to it, this one actually left me hanging there for a while. I also enjoyed the ways that she would have an image trigger a memory which triggers another image. Very nice. I give this a 9 instead of a 10 because Lost Souls is just that much better. (On a sideline, I found it a scream when she mentioned Cliff Stoll in her book. I actually know the guy, you can have the most interesting conversation with him in an hour, you know.)
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Summary: Brite surpasses Rice...and does it with fewer words
Review: I stumbled onto Poppy Brite quite by accident. I read the cover summary of her first book, "Lost Souls?" and thought it sounded interesting. I read that title in two days. Luckily, her second novel, "Drawing Blood," had just been released. I picked it up and finished it in one day. When I put it down, my first thought was, "Good, but not as good as 'Lost Souls'." But as the days went on, it was "Drawing Blood" that continued to reverberate in my mind. I have now read it over 10 times and find more depth with every reading. Brite has the ability to create characters that feel as if they are your best friends, and creates locales with the mastery of a poet. A big Anne Rice fan, I was amazed by Brite's ability to accomplish far more with her characters and settings with less verbosity. Never once did I skim any of Brite's books. Don't get me wrong, I am still an Anne Rice fan, but with Anne Rice, I often found myself skipping over pages that detailed one cornerstone of a building. Also, unlike Rice, Brite does not mince words about her characters' lives. Whereas Rice hints at same sex attraction between her characters, Brite creates no allusion...her characters are out-and-out gay just as her straight characters are definately straight. "Drawing Blood" is an amazing character study, an endearing love story, and a treatise on psychological horror. Think of it as "The Shining" of the nineties with a distinctly GenX flavor.
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Summary: boring
Review: simple minded story just never takes flight. Homo-erotic sequences have all been done better and many times before. It's basically "The Shinning" minus the shine, with some characters stolen from the film "My Own Private Idaho" thrown in for good measure. I was really hoping for more.
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Summary: finally, a love story that isn't boring
Review: After reading Lost Souls, I was starving for another book. I embraced Drawing Blood, preparing myself for the disappointment when I discovered it was not as lovely as her previous book, but the disappointment never came. I found that not only was it as beautiful as her first book, but that it surpassed its predecessor in content and character description. After seeing the glossy covers of a man and woman in flowing clothes glaring at me under the bright lights of the drugstore, this was a welcome and much needed love story. It breaks the traditional mold, and plunges headfirst into a heart-breaking, fast-paced, violent love between a tortured artist who has lost his capacity for feeling, and a computer hacker whose insecurities lead him into many meaningless sexual relationships. Trevor, a cartoonist goes back to the house of his childhood in hopes of finding the dark secret that led his father to murder his mother and brother, and kill himself, but even more horrible, to allow him to be the sole survi
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Summary: All I could ever say about this book was... WOW
Review: I first read this book when it was first released in paperback, oh three or four years ago now. I read it. Then I re-read it. And though I've read it AGAIN several times since, DRAWING BLOOD never seems to lose its taught, fast-paced narration, or its intelligent, realistic humor, and its characters are as flesh-and-blood as ever. Poppy has a true genius for realistic, gee-that-sounds-just-like-my-best-friend characterizations, and writes with a voice which is fresher and more natural than many writers who've been on the block since before she was a twinkle in her parents' eyes. Her tale of wandering, disaffected youths who meet and fall in love in a very modern haunted house strikes a cord in the hearts of those who exist within this generation--this "brave new world" of the 1990s. Stephen King and Anne Rice had better pack up and mosey along--there's a new sheriff in town.
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Summary: hoo boy...
Review: this book is the story of two men, both trying to escape their lives in different ways. neither have ever loved before, until they meet each other. trevor is a confused man who was orphaned at age five by his father, who murdered trevor's mother and brother, then commited suicide. zach is on the run from the law for computer hacking. they meet up in missing mile, north carolina, and together try to solve the mystery that has been plaguing trevor all his life: why is he alive?
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Summary: Horror is Poppy z. Brite's DRAWING BLOOD
Review: Oh,the joys of family life...
Thanksgiving,Christmas,birthdays,murder,you know,the usual. This is the book that defines horror.
A ghastly combination of murder, hauntings, love, sex and trauma, with very nicely detailed descriptions. It will leave you wanting more.
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