Lost's Buried Treasures

Summary

The Ultimate Unauthorized Resource to the Stories Behind Lost - Updated Through Season 4! Lost is a complex and mysterious tale, one that draws on many sources for its themes and ideas - sources you must understand to become an advanced Lost expert. Lost@s Buried Treasures is the ultimate unauthorized guide to the ideas that have influenced the show and its writers - and completely updated through season 4. Readers can use this comprehensive handbook to discover new connections and unearth themes they may have missed, exploring: Books and movies important to the show and how they are connected Geographical clues New and old theories Musical references and the meaning behind the incredible soundtrack The best online resources The video and role-playing games and what they@ve revealed Cast, writer, and director biographies And much more NO TRUE LOST FAN SHOULD EVER WATCH AN EPISODE WITHOUT THIS CRUCIAL GUIDE IN HAND. Explore all the interconnected stories and mysterious references that make the show so fascinating.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lost Reading and Viewing
Is There an (Ancestor) Text on This Island?
Books on the Island: After All These Years Are You There, God?
It's Me, Margaret Bad Twin The Bible Book of Law A Brief History of Time
The Brothers Karamazov Carrie Catch-22
Dirty Work Evil Under the Sun The Fountainhead
The Gunslinger Hindsight
The Invention of Morel Lancelot Laughter in the Dark Left Behind
""An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge""
Our Mutual Friend Rainbow Six The Third Policeman The
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Excerpt from Chapter One: Lost Reading And Viewing from Lost's Buried TreasuresIS THERE AN (ANCESTOR) TEXT ON THIS ISLAND?Even before the library in the Swan hatch, entered for the first time in "Man of Science, Man of Faith" (2.1, the initial episode of Season Two), and that Bible Mr. Eko finds in the Arrow hatch, the one the Tailies stumble upon in "...and Found" (2.5), made Mystery Island more bookish, tomes were common enough on Lost - not as common as miniature liquor bottles, but not exactly rare either.Throughout Season One, we find the unlikely avid reader Sawyer page-turning a variety of books, from Richard Adams' Watership Down(a book he re-reads in "Left Behind," 3.15) to Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. In Season Two, he continues to read from his word horde: Judy Blume's Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaretand Walker Percy's Lancelot. In the Swan even more books have screen time: James' The Turn of the Screw, Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and, most notoriously, O'Brien's The Third Policeman, an obscure Irish novel that became a surprise bestseller due to its unintentional product placement cameo. And speaking of product placement, in "The Long Con" (2.13) we find Hurley reading the manuscript of Bad Twin, a Losttie-in novel written by the late Oceanic 815 passenger Gary Troup, later released by Hyperion, the publisher of official Lost books. Season Three continued to be bookish. The opening scene of the first episode ("A Tale of Two Cities," 3.1) shows a book club - the assigned book Stephen King's Carrie. Later, in "Every Man for Himself" (3.4), Ben evokes Steinbeck's Of Mice and Menin his humbling of Sawyer, and in "Not in Portland" (3.7), Aldo is seen reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.To paraphrase a question literary critic Stanley Fish once famously asked in the title of a book: "Is there a text on this island?" Many, many texts is the answer. Astonishingly, given that Lost is the story of the aftermath of a plane crash, not a single John Grisham novel has been found.Not all the "texts" are literary, of course. Cinema ancestors - disaster films, Cast Away, Jurassic Park- and television series - The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilligan's Island, Survivor, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, The X-Files- have all influenced Lost's themes, its mise-en-scene, its characterization, its narrative style. The postmodern, as Umberto Eco has noted, is the age of the "already said." Books, films, and television have all had their say on Lost.Each time a newLost text opens for perusal, the fans go wild and speculation runs rampant as theLost-fixated begin to read, backward and forward, an extraordinarily complex, still unfolding, still entangling narrative. The threads of a text, a "kind of halfway house between past and future," the critic Wolfgang Iser would write, always exist in "a state of suspended validity" (370), and such threads are particularly well-suited for today's avidly conjecturing, anxious to conspire "fan-scholar.""Quality" television series, according to Robert Thompson's authoritative delineation, are "literary and writer-based" (15), and most readily, proudly, acknowledge their ancestors and their influences. When Twin