Living Lost: Why We're All Stuck on the Island
by J. Wood
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Author: J. WoodEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-07
ISBN: 1891053027
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Garrett County Press, LLC
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- ISBN13: 9781891053023
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Book Reviews of Living Lost: Why We're All Stuck on the Island
Book Review: An excellent commentary on Lost and society
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is not entirely what I was expecting. When I was out looking for books on Lost because I was sure I was missing out on some of the more subtle aspects of the show. I kind of wanted something that would help bring me up to speed on all the elements that Lost tends to include. This book has a lot of those elements, but it is also so much more than that.
Rather than just being an abridged overview of Lost "Living Lost" is also an extensive social commentary about elements that may or may not be used as an influence for Lost. Much of what J. Wood goes over is merely conjecture, thus it is likely just a coincidence. However, he touched upon the fact that the producers seem to be reading the forums that the fans go on, because he's noticing a bit of a feedback loop between theories fans have and elements in the show. I thought this was incredibly brilliant. While I'm really interested in Lost, my experience with the show is sort of in a vacuum, consisting of just myself and the show. Lost incorporates many other methods and elements to keep fans interested and I miss out on a lot of these. I feel this book was excellent in getting me somewhat acquainted with aspects I may have missed.
This book mainly covers aspects found in the first and second season, so concepts concerning terrorism are constantly revisited. J. Wood draws many parallels to the 9/11 plane crashes in the U.S. and the following era that is the War on Terror. He suggests that Lost is directly influenced by these real world elements and I don't think he's very far off the mark. As the saying goes "art imitates life". I do wish J. Wood would write another book for the later seasons, because I feel the scientific elements of the island are getting quite a lot more treatment. Not to mention the metaphysical elements are also being heavily emphasized. I would love to read J. Wood's commentary on these later seasons.
"Living Lost" is a relatively quick book to read through, but the volume of information it contains is quite impressive. The latter half of the book is merely a character overview and gives the reader a brief description of all the characters we've encountered thus far. It would probably be rather boring for someone who watches Lost closely, but I read it anyway, just to see if there was anything I missed out on. When it came to these things, there wasn't much for me in here. The one element that was kind of annoying was the poor character sketches. I'm not sure who did those pictures, but they would've been better off hiring a sketch artist at the very least. My girlfriend is an illustration major and her abilities are leagues ahead of whoever drew these.
I actually think this book has a lot of merit for fans of Lost. It gives a great overview of elements someone may have missed out on in the first viewing. Also it closely discusses some links that were harder to see within the seasons. I found this book utterly fascinating and I would recommend it to any Lost fan.
Summary of Living Lost: Why We're All Stuck on the Island
Miracles, viruses, plane crashes and acts of terror perpetrated by a group of Others: This is the perplexing and radical world of the television show Lost. With wit and insight, J. Wood explores the show's strange engagement with the psychodynamics of the war on terror/ism we all experience through the media and mediated government -- war, (mis)information, terrorism -- and re-works those psychodynamics through its narrative. And that argument underlies a broader discussion of the mysteries and secrets and strange narrative forms the show has taken on. There's also an appendix that goes over the major characters up through the six-episode miniseries and discusses how the themes of the narrative are refracted through the characterizations.General Broadcasting Books
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