Getting Lost

The completely unauthorized book titled "Getting Lost, Survival, Baggage, and Starting Over in J.J. Abrams' Lost" edited by Orson Scott Card is already out of date. Although it was published in 2006, it is worth reading. The speculating and analyzing by different writers and theories of Lost television TV show gives a diverse view from those who love or hate Lost.

Chapter titles and excerpts from the book are as follows.

Introduction "What is Lost good for?" - Orson Scott Card

Chapters

1) "Game Theory" - Joyce Millman, "Lost sustains a chilling sense of normaility skewed..." _{[page 23]}

2) "Staying Lost" - Charlie W. Starr, "...Sayid is an Iraqi Republican Guard torturer with a conscience and a noble heart."

3) "The Same Damn Island" - Adam-Troy Castro

4) "The Lost Book Club" - Bill Spangler
"Watership Down", "The Brother's Karamazov", "Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret", "Wrinkle In Time", "Turn of the Screw", "The Third Policeman", and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".

5) "Oceanic Tales: Have You Been Framed?" - Evelyn Vaughn
6) "All Hail Hurley!" - Nick Mamatas
7) "Lost in Love" - Lani Diane Rich

8) "There Are No Coincidences" - Leigh Adams Wright, "...eerie coincidences, bizarrely fortunate circumstances." _{[page 86]}

9) "Cosmic Vertigo on the Isle of Lost" - Barry Vacker, "...end-of-the-world paranoia taps into a long trajectory of apocalyptic mythologies, where the human world is destroyed by hubris, arrogance, greed, ideology, or technology run amok." _{[page 98]}

10) "Doubt, Descartes, and Evil Geniuses" - Robert Burke Richardson
11) "Oops" - Clayton Davis
12) "Lost Connections - G.O. Likeskill
13) "Double-Locked" - Amy Berner
14) "The Art of Leadership" - Glenn Yeffeth
15) "Who's Who and What's What for Everybody Who is Lost" - Wayne Allen Sallee