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Title: Drawing Blood by POPPY BRITE ISBN: 0-440-21492-0 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 (92 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One Hell of a Life Changer
Comment: I stumbled across this book like some people stumble upon Christ or Buddah. It was there at the right time just when I needed it. The first thing that caught my eye as I scanned the cover was the relationship between Zack and Trevor. Being a closeted and confused 19 year old I knew I could buy it with out looking "gay". When I got it home I started reading it and didnt put it down until I was finished. It felt like Poppy had gotten right inside that corner of my head I thought only I knew about. The feeling of loss, love, madness, disconecction. It wasn't just the gay aspect either. Trevors struggle with his ghost of a father, Zacks inability really to connect with the world except through hacking, Parker, Birdland, comics, it's all here. It's the first book I ever read that made you feel like it came with it's own Jazz soundtrack.(I later read Poppy's Lost Souls..it introduced me to the Cure) It's also the only book I've ever read that takes you into a cartoon underworld. (Litterly!!) When I was done I knew beyond all shadows I would make it..and that their was someone out there waiting and looking for me. Buy this book..give it away as gifts..hell, give it away on the street corner. Magic..pure one hundred perecent hit you in the soul magic.
Rating: 5
Summary: YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK!
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: The smell of cyberspace
Comment: 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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Title: Lost Souls by POPPY BRITE ISBN: 0440212812 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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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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Title: The Crow: The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Z. Brite ISBN: 0061020095 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories by Poppy Z. Brite, Peter Straub ISBN: 1887368256 Publisher: Gauntlet Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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