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Title: Love in Vein by Poppy Z. Brite ISBN: 0-06-105490-9 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: love in vein: not read in vain
Comment: Poppy Z. Brite, one of the best new authors of dark fiction, has taken the time to gather some wonderful tales of vampiry together and bind them into a satisfying book. This baby has not collected dust on my shelf--nor will it on yours. Believe me, you'll want all of your friends to read it.
Perhaps the best tale of the lot is Brian Hodge's "alchemy of the throat", a beautifully crafted story of a castrati's venture into a paridoxical world of terror and unmitigated joy. He is bought by an old man with a shady history and becomes his lover only to discover that (what else?) the guy's a vampire.
Don't let this alarm you though--most of these stories aren't at all cheesy. There were only about two that i found truly tedious and pointless; the rest are gems. The cool part of the book is not the actual bloodsucking, but the variety of ways in which authors have chosen to express the concept of a vampire.
It's not always Dracula or Lestat. Sometimes, it's someone or something who takes one's power away, one's life force. And that is something that we can all identify with. Read Brite's own works for further enjoyment--you won't be sorry.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: Poppy Brite is a better writer than she was an editor. This book is the proof. These stories are actually quite lame, and don't do much to stimulate either the intellect or any of the other parts erotica is supposed to stimulate. Skip this one. Her follow-up book Love in Vein II is vastly superior, with a collection of well-written, and much more erotic, vampire fiction.
Rating: 3
Summary: I enjoyed many of these scary, spooky and sexy short stories
Comment: I liked to be scared and sexy at the same time, so this book was the perfect experience for me. What I liked the most was the Delicous Antique Whor and the Alchemy of the Throat, although sometimes I didn't understand them. I am scared already to think about this book! Wooo!
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Title: Love in Vein II : Eighteen More Tales of Vampiric Erotica by Poppy Z. Brite ISBN: 006105657X Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Lost Souls by Poppy Brite ISBN: 0440212812 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Drawing Blood by Poppy Brite ISBN: 0440214920 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: EXQUISITE CORPSE by Poppy Z. Brite ISBN: 0684836270 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 20 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Wormwood : A Collection of Short Stories by Poppy Brite ISBN: 0440217989 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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