Flight 815-ers Unite discussion

The ones I have read from Lori's and Lostpedia's list:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Harry Potter
Holy Qur'an
The Invention of Morel
Lord of the Flies
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Of Mice and Men
On Writing
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Survivors of the Chancellor
A Tale of Two Cities
The Third Policeman
On the Road
Animal Farm
Through the Looking-Glass
To Kill a Mockingbird
Watership Down
A Wrinkle in Time
The Little Prince
Heart of Darkness
The Turn of the Screw
The Brothers Karamazov
The Stand
Evil Under The Sun
The Outsiders
The Pearl
The Old Man and The Sea

Aw, crap. I forgot to put this in 'Lost Lit Challenges'......Anyone knows how I can move it?

I got your back Rauf :)

Thank you, Lori, super awesome moderator.

Kissing up will get you.... everywhere :)

So does being touched by Jacob :P

Hee hee hee

Ok. I've finished Turn of the Screw and Heart of Darkness. Now waiting for the right time to read The Stand.

I strongly disliked both of those books... what did you think?

I gave Screw a single star.

Heart of Darkness -- it's not great. But I don't regret reading it. Found some shiny quotes in it.

I think the only thing I remember liking about Darkness was the description of his blood filling his boot. Sad as that may sound.

Not "the horror...the horror!" ?

:D

Finished Brothers Karamazov. Trying my best to finish The Stand before August turns to September (^_^)

Okay. Finished with The Stand. That climax pisses me off. I mean I toiled through those boring Boulder chapters hoping the climax would be be unforgettable...Turns out it is but for the wrong reason.

OK. I will try to read Hinton's Outsiders, Christie's Evil Under the Sun, Verne's Mysterious Island and 20.000 Leagues (that's a Lost book, right? James called the sub cap'n Nemo), and The Old Man and The Sea this month.

Oh and some Stephen Kings.

Mysterious Island is, but 20,000 leagues isnt.
Though once you read one, you will want to read the other since they have a tie in.

Btw I think The Stand and Lord of the Flies are two of the most essential Lost books.

Lord of the Flies, definitely. You will also say that of Mysterious Island, I think, in that it affects a group of people very similarly to what we see on the show.

Also check out The Pearl, it is Hurley's story to a tee.

I'm not too keen on Steinbeck but I'll definitely read The Pearl now. Thanks, Lori.

BTW in The Stand, Abagail and Flagg are sort of scared of each other and Flagg thought once he got rid of her, things would go his way but it isn't. It's the beginning of his end.

So I'm guessing in our favorite show this would happen to the Nemesis. Flocke said to Ben things will change when Jacob's gone. But the change would probably be not so advantageous for the Nemesis.

Nemesis = Man in Black, I assume?

I think to destroy one (Jacob or MiB) will throw everything off balance. Though I think it is a necessary thing in order to free the Losties and Others from the black hole that is the Island.

Lostpedia called the Man in Black/Jacob's Enemy as the Nemesis now. So I'll call him that too.

Yeah. Could be. Could be.

Finished with The Outsiders. Pretty damn good, that one. And Hinton wrote it when she was only 14??

I finished Evil Under The Sun last weekend but I forgot to update it. It was okay. Not one of Agatha Christie's finest work.

And I have just finished The Pearl ten minutes ago. It was magnificent! It really was. Now I want to read everything John Steinbeck had ever written, even his grocery list or hate mail.

Yay.. glad to hear you enjoyed the Pearl... For a short novel, it was packed with good stuff, wasnt it?

Oh yeah. It was packed with some awesomeness and then some.

Just finished The Old Man and The Sea today. It's pretty good.

Finished Carrie last month. Forget to update it. I don't think I can read Lost Lit for this month (reading the books that I think will help me for NaNoWriMo) or next month (The NaNoWriMo).

On December, I've finished reading Y: The Last Man, volumes 1 - 10.

Just finished The Shining.
It has a very strong Lost flavor. Or maybe 'twas Lost that has a very strong Shining flavor.
And as it turns out, one of my favorite books of all time, Flowers For Algernon was a Lost book. How about that? I read it last year.

I didn't even know Flowers For Algernon was Lost-lit! How'd I miss that one?

I didn't know it either. I saw it on Rachel Erin's Lost lit. I checked Lostpedia and yes, Flowers of Algernon is a book of Lost things.

Rauf wrote: "I didn't know it either. I saw it on Rachel Erin's Lost lit. I checked Lostpedia and yes, Flowers of Algernon is a book of Lost things."

I'm so glad I saw this! That's what I'm going to read next.

@ Cait
I hope you enjoy that book.

:)