Lost Souls?

silverchaos · 5th March 2003, 12:59pm

Just finish reading a book called Lost Souls? by Poppy Z. Brite. I'm just posting here to recommend it to everyone who can get their hands on a copy! its totally amazing. It's a vampire novel, but not a regular one, full of parties where they get wrecked on cocktails of blood vodka and acid! its a totally crazy book. Anyone else here ever read it?

eviltwinisdead · 5th March 2003, 1:07pm

i haven't, but check out the book review forum, in art/literature forum, someone may have reviewed it already

**Shannow** · 5th March 2003, 1:12pm

ive read it once or twice, its possibly one of the most pretentious things ive ever stumbled upon in my life, it does amuse me though. so many ohsogoth! references for the kiddies. heheh

silverchaos · 5th March 2003, 1:16pm

thats what i liked about it, it took all the teenage gothic angst that we have all seen so many examples of and totally played off it! It inspired me to go out and but a bottle of chartreuse and boy did it live up to the book!

**Shannow** · 5th March 2003, 1:21pm

hahahah

ooohhh charteuse... its been a while. that stuff is lethal.

theres a book of shrt stories shes done as well called swamp foetus i belive, a couple of the ones in that are pretty good.
though this should really be in the book review section.

silverchaos · 5th March 2003, 1:33pm

should be but due to my limited experience with the site it was not until my firiend evil twin pointed out the book review section that i even realised their was one hidden away in the arts part. my bad

**Shannow** · 5th March 2003, 1:35pm

im sure a supernmod'll move it when its noticed

Zooropa · 5th March 2003, 1:36pm

Make me one and I'll move it Forbes! :P

Baby Jordan · 5th March 2003, 2:14pm

[moved]

Xen · 6th March 2003, 12:20pm

someone said a poem i wrote recently was influenced by Poppy z brite. although i dont know who that person is. I just wrote the poem myself.

cadpig · 25th March 2003, 1:47am

Yes!! Lost Souls is good but not Poppy Z.Brite's best - she's this generations answer to Anne Rice I feel. Seen as Anne Rice sold out completely then proceeded to milk the vampire chronicles for all they were worth! Ahem, but I digress, if you liked Lost Souls you should give Drawing Blood a spin - it's wonderful, not about vampires but again set in Missing Mile and a few familiar faces crop up, it's far stronger than Lost Souls.
Swamp Foetus was out of circulation for a bit but was re-published under the title Self-Made Man if you're looking for it - there are some kick ass lil' pieces of work in there.
And if you'll still hungry for more try Exquisite Corpse, although that ain't for the faint hearted

I'm not even sure what to make of that one.....
Can you tell I'm a Brite fan :o

peace
x

Lady Glitter · 26th March 2003, 11:39am

hears poppy is moving away from the goth genre. Oh no! Read "Exquisite Corpse" next. Very hard to take, violence is very graphic, but Tran and Luke are such tragic characters

Lady Glitter · 27th March 2003, 12:08pm

Oh yeah, and buy some chartreuse. Mixed with vodka and a good smoke, it's tasty.......

JennyPiccolo · 27th March 2003, 2:15pm

it tastes like mouthwash. peppered mouthwash.

there's a band i saw a poster for called zillus, think? it was one of the vampires from that book.

april · 27th March 2003, 5:52pm

There was a pretty good Poppy Z. Brite interview in Bizarre magazine ahwile ago , well good if you've never heard of her anyways

http://www.bizarremag.com/lives/brite.php

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