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| Original Title: | Lost |
| ISBN: | 0060988649 (ISBN13: 9780060988647) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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| Title | : | Lost |
| Author | : | Gregory Maguire |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 340 pages |
| Published | : | September 17th 2002 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published October 1st 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Mystery. Horror |
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At the flat in Weatherall Walk there was no milk in the fridge, no ice in the tiny freezer unit.... The better furniture was hung over with drop cloths, the leather-bound books evacuated from their shelves.... Unconnected wiring threaded from walls, and a smell of lazy drains, something rotting, unfurled from the sewer all the way up to this flat. Winnie wrenched open a window. But no sign of John?Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his apartment in the nineteenth-century rowhouse once owned by Winnie's great-great-grandfather. Is it the spirit of this ancestor, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin?
Winnie begins to investigate, but John's erstwhile girlfriend, Allegra, is aggressively unhelpful, and his downstairs neighbor, the cat-obsessed Mrs. Maddingly, is growing stranger by the day. Gripped by inspiration and desperation alike, Winnie finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades, some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past.
In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's Possession, with dark overtones echoing from A Christmas Carol, Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture Gregory Maguire's eager audience.
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Ratings: 2.82 From 13697 Users | 992 ReviewsJudgment Out Of Books Lost
I dont remember when I read this one, but it was unfortunately my first of his books. I took it back to the store. It was so boring. I dont usually, well, I dont ever say that. Later though, I finally picked up another of his and didnt leave the store until it had intrigued me. Now Im a huge fan of hisexcept for this book. Not this one. No. No. Stay away from this one.I first picked up LOST when I was 19 or so (I'm now 30). I had just finished reading Wicked and thought this would be another fun, dark fairy-tale-turned-upside-down page turner. About 2/3 of the way through the book, I gave up. The plot began to fizzle as the main character, Winnie, literally wanders in circles in London and I gave up any interest in seeing if her story would ever resolve.A few weeks ago, I thought I'd try again. What I think Maguire does really well: I LOVE his narrative
every time i thought i was getting into a good part, it got too wordy and i lost interest. the fact that i actually finished this book is a miracle.
Lost Is Right!I understand Maguire's rise to fame having read Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. I loved both and was excited to read Lost, even if it seemed like it wouldn't be sticking to our original assumptions of Maguire's twisting of stories we grew up with. Well, I was sorely disappointed throughout. I love the stories of the past, but often hated the writing. I could never really get in touch with the characters presented to me. Lost does that and so much worse.The book itself
I hated this book. I've all his other books and enjoyed them. They weren't amazing books I couldn't put down until they were done, but they were good. This one however was terrible. It makes you think it's going to be about the Scrooge and Jack the Ripper and then has nothing about it. Boring, long, goes all over the place with no reason as to why or outcome. The end sucks and makes no sense. It's terrible, I'm glad I got it used so it was only 5 bucks but I could have gotten a Subway foot long
I was disappointed. I was expecting similar to Mirror Mirror or Wicked Witch. But this story does not take up the Scrooge story and tell the wonderfully different perspective of another character within the old stories. No, this is a new story only using the Scrooge story as an excuse to begin, to exhist.If I lay aside my expectations, I still am not impressed. Within the story is another story - the main character is a writer therefore she goes into "episodes" where she is not paying attention
Let me start this review by saying that I've read and reviewed Gregory Maguire's most famous and critically-acclaimed work entitled Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which was turned into a Broadway musical hit--and I didn't end up being as impressed about it as I hoped I would be. With that said, I already have extremely low expectations going into this book. It's also noteworthy to point out that I've read some reviews about it in Goodreads, and they seemed to
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