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The Crow: The Lazarus Heart [Paperback]

Poppy Z Brite (Author)
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"The man who wears the names of rivers knows that he is no longer like other men, that some part of his fearful work has changed him forever and he can never return to the simple, painless life he lived before.... The invaders are everywhere, and Their agents are everywhere.... In [his] dreams They walk the streets without fear, spreading the androgyne contagion, and the sky burns with the roaring engines of Their warships."

In a novel about a serial killer, the evocation of the killer's madness can make or break the book. In The Crow: The Lazarus Heart, Poppy Z. Brite delivers her usual complement of gay/transsexual pale-faced lovelies dressed in black Lycra and lace, giving just enough of a spin to their aesthetics that they are mildly entertaining to read about. But the way she puts the good gory meat into the story is through the character of a mesmerizing serial killer whose unique brand of paranoia serves as a sly commentary on Brite's own fiction. This is a short and relatively simple novel for Brite, but its narrative momentum never lapses: the plot structure hangs together better than in her longer, more ambitious works. It's overwritten in places--Brite wants to use two similes where one will do--but it's fun. And that's what horror is all about. --Fiona Webster

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At our human limits, when we've gone as far as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One. The Crow. Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way--and beyond.

Five, four, three, two...Jared Poe counts the days on Louisiana's Death Row. The controversial S&M photographer has been condemned to die for killing his lover. He doesn't know who did it. Only that he didn't.

Can he clear his name and find the real killer in time?

No. For this is no ordinary thriller. We are in the dark realm of The Crow, and Jared must feel the cold shudder of Death; must hear the beating of black wings; must prowl the shadowy goth netherworld of New Orleans, to prove he was no killer when he died.

And find out what kind of killer he has become.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Poppy's Best, Dec 17 2003
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This review is from: The Crow: The Lazarus Heart (Mass Market Paperback)
This is kind of cheesy. Parts of it are down right silly. This is the first of Miss Brite's work I read. (my mom brought it home for me when I was home sick..she's regretted it ever since) It's ok, it's an interested take of the whole Crow thing, (maybe I don't care for this because the subject's been overdone to death?)and I like her writing style. Her latter work is better though. (Exquisite Corpse, etc)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Poppy Z brite is brilliant, Oct 2 2003
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The Crow was originally an incredible story that Poppy Z Brite not only writes with the same intensity and anger as the original but adds a more current theme. Hatred for gay men. Not only does this bring a different edge to the story but makes the triumphs of the crow character that much more thrilling. The gore is a little too much it takes a little bit away from the love story. You can almost feel the love between the main character and the dead lover. It's a beautiful story of love torn apart by hate and the revenge that follows.
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1.0 out of 5 stars No stars, please, Jan 7 2003
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What a godawful book. Probably written during Poppy's lowest phase, this book takes all that was beautiful and terrifying about The Crow and turns it into a pointless gorefest.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but for a person to come back from the dead, there must have been a tremendous, horrible wrong in the world that needs to be righted. Now, what happened to out protagonist was tragic, indeed. However, he came back and began mindlessly killing people with little rhyme or reason. His sister-in-law figures out what he is, and, in a bizarre and highly unlikely twist, kills herself so that she, too, can come back.

The Afterlife, apparently, has a revolving door.

Our "villain," here, is not in any way scary...more like "pathetic and wierd." Thank GOD Poppy's serial killers were better developed in the brilliant Exquisite Corpse. I had a vague annoying nag in the back of my head while reading this, thinking, "Why doesn't someone just hit him over the head with a chair or something?" He was irritating. He didn't know that what he was doing was really, per se, wrong, which takes out a large degree of the "scary, evil man against the Moral Right," which the Crow series is really, when you get down to it, based on.

There is one well-developed character in here: the police detective, hiding his sexuality to avoid flak from his coworkers. And yet, he dies pointlessly, and I was left wondering why he was in the book at all. He contributed nothing to the plot, and seemed like nothing more than filler.

To anyone out there who wants to read a good Poppy book, I would have to recommend Exquisite Corpse or Drawing Blood. Poppy is one of the few writers whose (very exprensive limited edition) books (and chapbooks) I buy without hesitation. But this...this is a mess.

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