Lost Souls
by Poppy Z. Brite
List Price:
Our Price: $0.01
You Save: $7.98 (100%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Poppy Z. BriteEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-09-10
ISBN: 0440212812
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Dell
Book Reviews of Lost Souls
Book Review: ....my best friend at 4:00am....
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, I'd like to say that whoever wrote the Kirkus review on this book should be flogged mercilessly and fired for doing their job so poorly. The review has the flavor of a kid doing a book report on a book they hardly bothered to read, and I feel sorry for any one who actually thinks this is what Lost Souls is all about. Just as an example, any die hard LS fan knows that only one rape occurred in the whole novel, the one he/she DIDN'T mention. That's what Kirkus gets for having a rectally clogged individual review a very erotically inclined book. Oh, well. This book is not for those faint of heart, or anyone who has the misfortune of being homophobic.I bought my first copy of this book when I turned the ripe age of thirteen, (I say my first copy because it was stolen by an overzealous ex who said it smelled of my essence, and I had to buy a new one. Go figure.) and I was looking for the caped, cross-fearing, reluctant teeny-bopper vampire I was so used to, and ne! edless to say, I didn't find it here. At first it angered me, this carnal turn she took my supernatural hero of the night down, taking away the reluctance, the mystique, and replacing it with sharpened teeth, Ziggy Stardust, and more drugs than you can imagine, but then I found myself unable to put the book down. I followed the path her ideas took me down, and I fell in love with them all. Steve and Ghost are like dear friends, who I can find cruising down a deserted road in the T-bird any time I want. (Reading "Angels" in Poppy's Wormwood almost brought me to tears, revisiting my two old friends in a different time of their lives.) And although Ann doesn't truly come in until Chapter 12, she tugs at my heart every appearance she makes. Her last thoughts are heavily dog-eared and tear-stained. Then there's Nothing, a perfect combination of his tragic child-mother Jessy and his sleek, murderous father Zillah, the original lost soul. The poor boy, who's simple, easy ch! arm and wide-eyed spoiled innocence rips your heart open an! d makes it want to bleed over his lips. Poppy Brite brought these characters to life in such a vivid and lush way, they turned my ideas around and became my friends when I thought I was alone, something everyone needs sometimes. I was one of the children in black, with too many razors onhand, too much eyeliner on, and too many Camel cigarettes, and this book was my bestfriend. I recommend this book to anyone, no matter what you're looking for. I got through that phase, and I came out of it just fine, but no matter what, Lost Souls is what I turn to at 4:00am.
Horror Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Horror Books
Let the Right One In: A Novelby John Ajvide Lindqvist
St. Martin's Griffin; Published: 2008-10-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops:
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Textby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 1982-03-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.00
Price in other shops:
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Oxford Bookworms S, Stage 4)by Robert Louis Stevenson
Oxford Univ Pr (Sd); Published: 1991-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.79
Price in other shops:
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford Books of Prose)Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 2001-11-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $50.00
The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)by Stephen King
Penguin Audio; Published: 2003-08-26; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $149.99
![Thinner [UNABRIDGED] Image](/images/Thinner-UNABRIDGED-0140862668-X.jpg){kind=small}
Thinner [UNABRIDGED]by Stephen King
Penguin Audio; Published: 1996-09-01; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops:
The Crow: Temple of Nightby S P. Somtow
Harper Paperbacks; Published: 1999-11-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops:
Brains: A Zombie Memoirby Robin Becker
Eos; Published: 2010-05-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.23
Price in other shops:
The Strain LP: Book One of The Strain Trilogyby Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
HarperLuxe; Published: 2009-06-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.45
Price in other shops:
Prince of Darknessby Barbara Michaels
HarperTorch; Published: 2005-04-26; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.60
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
The Devil You Knowby Poppy Z. Brite
Gauntlet Press; Published: 2005-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
Of Divine Warning: Disaster in a Modern Age (Radical Imagination)by Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis R. Gordon
Paradigm Publishers; Published: 2010-07-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $29.95
Price in other shops:
The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heartby Noel Carroll
Routledge; Published: 1990-01-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $36.22
Price in other shops:
Love in Veinby Poppy Z. Brite
Harper Voyager; Published: 1995-08-21; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.61
Price in other shops:
Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Othernessby Richard Kearney
Routledge; Published: 2002-11-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $30.39
Price in other shops:
Ten Plays (Signet Classics)by Euripides
Signet Classics; Published: 1998-10-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.89
Price in other shops:
Religion and Its Monstersby Timothy K. Beal
Routledge; Published: 2001-11-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $16.00
Price in other shops:
Wormwood: A Collection of Short Storiesby Poppy Z. Brite
Dell; Published: 1995-12-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.06
Price in other shops:
Exquisite Corpseby Poppy Z. Brite
Touchstone; Published: 1997-08-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.19
Price in other shops:
Drawing Bloodby Poppy Z. Brite
Dell; Published: 1994-10-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.64
Price in other shops: