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Book By: Gregory Maguire

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Sales Rank: 18,587; Release Date: 17 September, 2002; Media: Paperback

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Average Rating: Rating: - Disappointing, but still worth a read As an avid fan of Gregory Maguire's last two adult novels (particularly Wicked), I had high hopes for his latest fiction venture, Lost. While I don't feel the new novel measured up to the impossibly high standards the previous two set--and what novel could?--Lost is still well worth a read, especially as a first venture into Maguire's literary world. I'll refrain from posting a summary of the plot (although I will warn potential readers: whoever wrote that Publisher's Weekly review above evidently did not read the novel very closely, so don't be expecting too much from it!), and simply say it took me quite a while to get into the book. I was about half way through before I felt things had really gotten started. I was also a little disappointed in the end--the third act, so to speak, seemed too short, to wrap up too quickly and neatly, without enough details to satisfy me. Despite all those criticisms, Maguire is still a master of the form, touching on any number of relevant themes: the nature of love and motherhood, the supernatural, and what it means to be haunted. Recommended. Rating: - So Many Loose Ends I'll admit I read this book cover to cover, but it wasn't an enjoyable experience in the end. So many questions left unanswered -- so many dead ends to the different plot lines. I'd write a longer review, but I have already forgotten much of it (it was that unremarkable) and it's only been a week. Winnie's character and the haunter herself (Gervasa) never really let their stories develop fully. It's like Maguire got tired of writing. I am reading "Confessions" now -- I'll let you know if it's any better. I don't normally write these as "anonymous", but don't want to get flamed -- maybe it was such a "deep" book - I just missed something. Rating: - Lost is the right name for this book! Let me first start off by saying that, I am usually a Terry Maguire Fan. Everything about this book was Lost, the main character Winnie, the plot, me, and the usual Terry Maguire spin. He touches up Jack the Ripper and Dracula, but really the focus should have been on the haunting of Ozias Rudge how that paralleled Dickens and Winnie herself. Winnie would almost become endearing then act completely out of character. Few other characters were formed the way Terry usually allows. The only thing that really fit was the title. I think if you skip this book you won't be Lost for it.

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