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"Big talent gives off thermonuclear vibes. I can feel them . . . this is the voice we're going to be hearing for a long time."--Harlan Ellison In an old car rocking down a North Carolina highway with the radio on so loud you can't hear the music. . . Behind a dusty Georgia carny show. . . In a mausoleum in Baton Rouge, or in an alley in Calcutta. . . Here wanderers come to rest, the lost and lonely press their bodies up against each other, the heat rises, flesh yields, bones are bared, blood spills. This is the landscape of today's most brilliant young horror writer, Poppy Z. Brite. Now, in a collection that sings like cutting edge rock 'n' roll and shows the deft touch of a master storyteller, Poppy Z. Brite weaves her unique spell of the sensual, the frightening, and the forbidden. . . "Every page of Brite's work stresses the beautiful and heartbreaking strangeness of the world."--Fangoria … (more)
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I do remember certain characters quite vividly and I really liked some of the stories. And some of the stories I just didn't connect with at all. I felt that some of the characters were a little bit flat -- it's
I think the missing element here was Martin's classic New Orleans atmosphere that he's so well-known for. Some of the stories had different settings, Calcultta in India or some awful motel in some unnamed part of America, so I really missed that element.
There's plenty of LBGT themes though and I'm so glad that I've read some works by a trans author. I was hungry for representation and I found in it in his twisted, erotic, weird and wonderful writing.
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