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Summary: Poppy's Crow Stunning
Review: This book is a stunning example of a great story and great book making. Gauntlet Press released this limited of Poppy Z Brite's Crow Novel with breathtaking illustration by J.K. Potter and a CD with Poppy telling an original Short story, however, it is the story too which leads you into the world of Jared Poe, The Crow, and his search for vengeance for the death of his lover. Though these are not Poppy's character trademark she breathes her life into this book in her unique way. Search out this title from the Press who also gave you Poppy's collection "Are You Loathsome Tonight".
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book was absolutely magnificent. It makes one aware of the diversity and bigotry that's in modern culture, and helps us to try and overcome it. Poppy has done a superb job of bringing the world of the Crow into a new light.
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Summary: The Crow gets a spin in it's sexuallity.
Review: This Crow book had a strange twist...the main character, Jared Poe,. . . is gay.Some of you may think that's strange and sorta changes thing (I admit I thought that at frist) but it doesn't at all.The book is well written and it paints vivid pictures for you of this distopia which once was New Orleans.This is a great book..I love the ending scene when...oh well I guess you'll just have to buy the book to find out!
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Summary: The worst Crow story ever!!
Review: This is definately the worst one there is. I didn't think the characters were at all likeable. The only person kind of likes was the bad guy since he had a cool character.
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Summary: Not Poppy's Best
Review: This is kind of cheesy. Parts of it are down right silly. This is the first of Miss Brite's work I read. (my mom brought it home for me when I was home sick..she's regretted it ever since) It's ok, it's an interested take of the whole Crow thing, (maybe I don't care for this because the subject's been overdone to death?)and I like her writing style. Her latter work is better though. (Exquisite Corpse, etc)
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Summary: Not Poppy's Best
Review: This is kind of cheesy. Parts of it are down right silly. This is the first of Miss Brite's work I read. (my mom brought it home for me when I was home sick..she's regretted it ever since) It's ok, it's an interested take of the whole Crow thing, (maybe I don't care for this because the subject's been overdone to death?)and I like her writing style. Her latter work is better though. (Exquisite Corpse, etc)
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Summary: No stars, please
Review: What a godawful book. Probably written during Poppy's lowest phase, this book takes all that was beautiful and terrifying about The Crow and turns it into a pointless gorefest.Correct me if I'm wrong, but for a person to come back from the dead, there must have been a tremendous, horrible wrong in the world that needs to be righted. Now, what happened to out protagonist was tragic, indeed. However, he came back and began mindlessly killing people with little rhyme or reason. His sister-in-law figures out what he is, and, in a bizarre and highly unlikely twist, kills herself so that she, too, can come back. The Afterlife, apparently, has a revolving door. Our "villain," here, is not in any way scary...more like "pathetic and wierd." Thank GOD Poppy's serial killers were better developed in the brilliant Exquisite Corpse. I had a vague annoying nag in the back of my head while reading this, thinking, "Why doesn't someone just hit him over the head with a chair or something?" He was irritating. He didn't know that what he was doing was really, per se, wrong, which takes out a large degree of the "scary, evil man against the Moral Right," which the Crow series is really, when you get down to it, based on. There is one well-developed character in here: the police detective, hiding his sexuality to avoid flak from his coworkers. And yet, he dies pointlessly, and I was left wondering why he was in the book at all. He contributed nothing to the plot, and seemed like nothing more than filler. To anyone out there who wants to read a good Poppy book, I would have to recommend Exquisite Corpse or Drawing Blood. Poppy is one of the few writers whose (very exprensive limited edition) books (and chapbooks) I buy without hesitation. But this...this is a mess.
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Summary: No stars, please
Review: What a godawful book. Probably written during Poppy's lowest phase, this book takes all that was beautiful and terrifying about The Crow and turns it into a pointless gorefest. Correct me if I'm wrong, but for a person to come back from the dead, there must have been a tremendous, horrible wrong in the world that needs to be righted. Now, what happened to out protagonist was tragic, indeed. However, he came back and began mindlessly killing people with little rhyme or reason. His sister-in-law figures out what he is, and, in a bizarre and highly unlikely twist, kills herself so that she, too, can come back. The Afterlife, apparently, has a revolving door. Our "villain," here, is not in any way scary...more like "pathetic and wierd." Thank GOD Poppy's serial killers were better developed in the brilliant Exquisite Corpse. I had a vague annoying nag in the back of my head while reading this, thinking, "Why doesn't someone just hit him over the head with a chair or something?" He was irritating. He didn't know that what he was doing was really, per se, wrong, which takes out a large degree of the "scary, evil man against the Moral Right," which the Crow series is really, when you get down to it, based on. There is one well-developed character in here: the police detective, hiding his sexuality to avoid flak from his coworkers. And yet, he dies pointlessly, and I was left wondering why he was in the book at all. He contributed nothing to the plot, and seemed like nothing more than filler. To anyone out there who wants to read a good Poppy book, I would have to recommend Exquisite Corpse or Drawing Blood. Poppy is one of the few writers whose (very exprensive limited edition) books (and chapbooks) I buy without hesitation. But this...this is a mess.
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Summary: Really did not meet my expectations
Review: When I first heard about this book I thought that it would be excellent. The combination of the Crow and Brite's always convoluted and strange writing would be a sure winner. To put it mildly I was greatly disappointed. This was an interesting story, but it lacked the usual edge and suspense of Brite's other efforts, especially Lost Souls and Drawing Blood. I had expected much more and I cannot get over the impression that the author skimped on what could have been an excellent addition to the Crow storyline.
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Summary: A Review of the Reviews, or, Perspective, People!
Review: While I've seen that most people have said all that I have to say about this dilectable book, I'd like to make a few comments on the reviews... First as to the person who thought the serial killer was a 'cool' character: oh dear. Anyone who sympathies with a gay-basher is either truely sick or stupid, as is anyone who would champion a violently racist character, or any other -ist type character you care to name. As to it being a tie-in... so what? Poppy Z. Brite is using a goth archetype here... if you dismiss this as a 'tie-in' with the Crow comics, you might as well dismiss Lost Souls as an 'Interview' or 'Dracula' tie-in, and 'Drawing Blood' as a tie-in to 'Neuromancer' or 'The Haunting of Hill House. Tie-in is just an under-rated term for theme. The gore? yes, it's worse than swamp foetus/LS/Db, but LH is closer to Brite's style in Exquisite Corpse... with her more recent novels, i think she's trying to shock us again with characters that are EVEN MORE disgusting than Zillah or Trevor. And the length? well, true, it's short... but i think LH is closer to a long, crow-themed short story than it is to a short novel. Seen as ashort story, it's not one of her best, maybe- but it's Poppy Z. Brite, it's the Crow, and best of all, it's Beautiful Bisexual twins.
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