false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544715m/24929.jpg 24929 11 <P>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 step-cousin 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 haunting past.</P><P> In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's <i>Possession</i>, with dark echoing overtones of <i>A Christmas Carol</i>, Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers.</P> 1130986 2001 Lost: A Novel total:3833|5:200|4:534|3:1220|2:1169|1:710| 3833 9844 6113 377 4 7 false false Sat Jan 19 14:21:48 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 14:21:48 -0800 2008
I couldn't put this book down. Found myself . . . "Lost" in it! There are lots of kinds of people in the world and from the reviews here it appear...more...]]> 2 6 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 18:32:03 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 18:32:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 5 true false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Dec 12 10:08:26 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 14:34:35 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 18:39:01 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 22:54:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 20:01:33 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 04:32:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed May 09 23:38:06 -0700 2007 Wed May 16 17:07:08 -0700 2007
I was frustrated with how he kept slapping the reader in t...more...]]> 1 2 false false Fri Jul 11 10:20:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 11:29:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false false Tue Jun 10 13:11:01 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 10 10:55:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 21:06:17 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 21:22:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 06:37:33 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 17:24:08 -0800 2008
This was, unlike Maguire's other novels, not really a retelling of anything. It had elements of A Christmas Carol and liberal references to Alice in Wonderland,...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 07 07:37:57 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 07 07:43:38 -0800 2007
I found the protagonist to be very unlikeable. In fact, there was only one character in the book that I truly and unreservedly liked, and he only came in ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 15:27:29 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 07 22:57:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 18:58:49 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 13:58:14 -0800 2008
The historical stuff barely panned out, and when I realized halfway through the book that one of three plots was a lie, and that the cha...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Aug 17 20:54:34 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 20:59:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat May 30 17:50:09 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 17:50:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 19:35:34 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 16:34:40 -0800 2008 1
Winnie is a tough protagonist to...more...]]> 1 0 false true Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 19:52:07 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 19:59:37 -0800 2009 1 Wicked and Son of a Witch.

Sadly to say I was a bit disappointed. It took ages for the main character and story to get going, the first 100 pages just drag on and on wi...more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 15:10:48 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 15:16:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 21 18:13:24 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 11:03:25 -0800 2009
By the middle of the book, however, I felt that instead of the main character, the author was going through...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 17:47:03 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 12:45:30 -0800 2008 2 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=24929