Poppy Z. Brite (Author Review)

[darkjadice]

I love Drawing Blood and her choices for Love in Vein 1&2. I read lost souls and wormwood and like them a lot just not as much. What are your choices for non fiction? I am so choosy when it comes to nf i dont even try lol

[tetsubo57]

@darkjadice I review every non-fiction book I read. Do a search for my name and 'book review'. I also review the tabletop role-playing books I read.

[kodyboye1]

I don't think anyone's mentioned this, but Poppy has talked about her gender dysphoria and how she relates more to being male than female.

[Raider17]

I completely agree with you about Barker in particular. Love the stories, but the novels are wretched, without exception.

[MizVanity]

If you have not already, you should visit her personal website. There is a reason, a very good reason, why she only writes a love/sex scene between two men. I'm the exact same way. She's inspired me to finish my book about a homosexual teenage boy. I can't for the life of me write in a female point of view. I completely identify with her on that aspect.

[tetsubo57]

I think I visited her site in the past. I had contact with her on a USENET newsgroup years ago. I think it might have been alt.gothic. When I read fiction, she was one of my favorite authors. :)

[MizVanity]

She is pretty amazing. I'm in the middle of Lost Souls, her first novel. Oddly, it sounds more mature than Exquisite Corpse, like she had written EC first. But then again, Lost Souls is a novel, and Exquisite Corpse is rather short *still great*. I really liked Exquisite Corpse. I felt a little traumatized at the ending because I felt I had grown close to Tran. I wrote a long, emotional review on the book two minutes after finishing it. Haha...

[tetsubo57]

EQ is my favorite of her work. Though I loved Lost Souls as well. But EQ put images into my head that never left. Lines, scenes, emotional states. Maybe because I am male. But I recommend that book to anyone that is a horror fan. Especially if they think Koontz is horror...

[MizVanity]

There was one line that made me laugh at myself. "I had made three corpses today and had not had a quiet moment with any of them." (Something along those lines) My initial response was to "AWEEE!" Then I said "Wait a minute!" and I laughed. Poppy romanticized necrophilia and I ate up every bit of it. That's another reason why I love her work. She pursuades the reader into thinking these kinds of acts are perfectly normal. Tricky, she is.

[DrowningArt94]

how can you stop reading fiction?

What i like about poppy is her characters, in Exqusite corpse you can feel the characters lonelynines(im sure i misspelled that).

at fisrt i was more intressted in it because of the erotic scenesxD but it was better than i thougt.

[tetsubo57]

I read hundreds of novels in my life.

I just drifted towards non-fiction. I have 300+ books awaiting me. I buy them used and cheap when I find them. I rarely pay more than $3 for a book. Most for a $1. There are just so many topics I want to learn. I can't possibly get them all done before I pass. But I try. :)

[tetsubo57]

I was never disappointed with one of her novels. Even though it's been a decade since I last read any fiction I find myself thinking about her work regularly. While I have completely forgotten better known authors work. She really is talented.

[Elvanpath66]

I absolutely adore Poppy Z. Brite's books. When I read her books, I can practically smell the human flesh, and taste the bitter alcohol. I was thrilled how she could wright the point of view of two serial killers who where actually based on real life serial killers. And being a female myself and wanting to be a writer, I understand the temptation of writing homosexual stories. But that's not saying I don't also like writing heterosexual stories. My favorite so far is Drawing Blood.