- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (6 Oct 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140238719
- ISBN-13: 978-0140238716
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 450,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Zach is a computer hacker who looks like Edward Scissorhands, and Trevor, a comics artist, is traumatized by his father's murder of his mother and brother 20 years previously. Both on the run from their pasts, they end up as lovers in the town of Missing Mile. By the author of "Lost Skulls".
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was the first book that I read of Poppy's and I have been hooked ever since. I found this book explores the most raw emotions of the characters laying them open for the reader to devour. I found it amazing how she could move the characters so swiftley from the deepest dispair to the hights of passion and love. After finishing the book I found that I really cared about the charaters and felt that the writer did to. I was very pleased to find that she cought up them in a compilation of short stories called Are You Loathsome Tonight? So I recommend that if you enjoy/ed them as much as me and want to know whats happening 10 years on get a copy of this asap. Drawing blood is the most well thumbed book on my shelf and I think everyone should buy 2 copies so they have a spare for when the first falls apart!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i picked up this book because i was bored one day and a week later i'd read it twice through. The writing style is completely addictive, dreamy and poetic, and afterwards you don't really feel like reading anything else (hence re-reading it). The characters are unusual but believable and the poetic descriptiveness of the writing transports you into the story more fully than most. After reading other horror authors, reading PZB is like diving into a cool swimming pool on a hot day. However, this book does contain some graphic sex scenes so don't read it if u object to that. not in a trashy way though, it doesn't take away from the book at all and the characters involved are really sweet. All in all a book that is likely to be re-read over and over again (I'm up to my fifth time and it would be more if I hadn't lent it to someone last year who hasn't yet given it back). Enjoy!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'd only read Poppy's Courtney Love book before but even though I'd enjoyed that I wasn't prepared for how good Drawing Blood would be! I started it as a bedtime read and ended up gettimg no sleep that night as i just couldn't put it down - i fell in love with the main characters and, like others have said, the love story between the beautifully tortured trevor and zach overrides the horror element of the book. If you're into dark fiction and homoeroticism, buy this book and cherish it - i haven't been able to read anything since as it's still too fresh in my mind.
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Not the most dynamic
I already have Lost Souls and was aware this would only be a loose sequel.
But I hadn't expected it to be as less dynamic as it was. Read more
But I hadn't expected it to be as less dynamic as it was. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Evangelevence
worth the buy
In 1972, underground cartoonist Bobby McGee murders his family in Missing Mile, North Carolina, leaving only five-year-old Trevor alive. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2007 by Amy Connolly
an unbelievable mess of a book
I picked this up after hearing Poppy Z.Brite's name used in conjunction with other 'shock' writers such as Bret Easton Ellis and Matthew Stokoe, and I have to say I was deeply... Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2005 by G. D. Budden
A good grasp
Drawing Blood shows vast improvement on Lost Souls, her first novel, in that there is an unmistakable ring to it. Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2003
A cartoon life
This book centers around the two boys whose lives are missing that special something..............trust and love. Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2003 by "midgeybear"
Neuromancer meets Necroscope? Not quite...
Whereas Lost Souls? represented a fresh take on the (by now) anemic vampire genre, Drawing Blood (something of a sequel) adds nothing new to Brite's canon. Read more
Published on 27 July 2003
genius is all i can say
I loved "Lost Souls", but this is even better. It's definitely the only PZB novel that had me sniffling at the end! Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2002 by "pzb_freak"
One dimensional, tired
.. This book is as flat as the poor Coyote at the bottom of a cliff. The anti-heroes have been scrubbed in far too harsh a carbolic soap to hold attention let alone draw sympathy... Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2002 by "ianmacdonald7"
What a find.
A few years ago I picked up this book, having never read any of poppy's books or even horror before. After opening the first page I could not put it down. What a fatastic book. Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2001 by porter_charlie@hotmial.com
escape into a magical world
this book is brilliant, you will forget where you are when you are reading it and long to know more. the character insights are bewitching and the storyline magical. Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2001 by Rachel Heyes
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