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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Unfortunately, as fascinating as many of Maguire's books sound, he obviously can't write himself out of a paper hat. This was exceedingly dull and I wound up just leaving it at Starbucks (I can't stand throwing away books). Hopefully it will find its way to someone who might appreciate it, but that's not me. (  ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 |  Unfortunately, as fascinating as many of Maguire's books sound, he obviously can't write himself out of a paper hat. This was exceedingly dull and I wound up just leaving it at Starbucks (I can't stand throwing away books). Hopefully it will find its way to someone who might appreciate it, but that's not me. ( ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | Unfortunately, as fascinating as many of Maguire's books sound, he obviously can't write himself out of a paper hat. This was exceedingly dull and I wound up just leaving it at Starbucks (I can't stand throwing away books). Hopefully it will find its way to someone who might appreciate it, but that's not me. ( ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | When in danger, when in doubt, Run in circles, scream and shout. Lost is a book by the author of Wicked. Maguire cleverly combines fairytales, history and an agile imagination to create stories that are impossible not to keep thinking about, long after the book is finished. Lost uses the story of Ebeneezer Scrooge as its pillar, to tell the story of Winnie Rudge, a writer who has traveled to London to research her next novel. She arrives to find the relative she planned to stay with missing, his flat occupied by builders and a very creepy haunting. Maguire's talent is in how he combines all the disparate elements of his story into a seamless tale. (  ) RidgewayGirl | Nov 22, 2009 | Gregory Maguire has made his name by his sophisticated retelling of childhood classics: Wicked dealt was about the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, while Confessions was the Cinderella story – from the point of view of the ugly stepsister. Lost purports to deal with Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, with diversions into Jack the Ripper territory, also featuring a book within a book as heroine Winifred Rudge mentally maps her next novel while at the same time trying to solve to disappearance of her step-cousin. Family history, ghosts, missing cats, and Ebenezer Scrooge, the book starts slowly and I battled to get into it. Ultimately, the effort – like the opportunity Maguire had to create an entertaining story – was wasted. (  ) adpaton | Nov 2, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0060988649, Paperback)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 home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, 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 and 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 echoing overtones of A Christmas Carol, Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers. (retrieved from Amazon Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:16:51 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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