Wow! I've read so few of these. I really need to get on the ball, :).

That's my plan too Rachel...I have seasons 1-4 on DVD and all of season 5 on my DVR, so I'm going to be rewatching them all and diving into some Lost Lit!

Now that Lost is over for the season, I am going to need something to occupy the Lost-dedicated portions of my brain. :D This sounds just perfect! I've read some of the titles on the list, but not most of them, so this should be fun!

I was also planning on rewatching seasons 1-5 before 6 starts. There has to be lots of stuff I've missed, and it will be a good refresher course so I don't miss anything in the last season! Anyone else planning on doing the same?

We got a new book tonite. I own this one. Gotta bump it up the to be read list!

And FLashforward will be on TV.... great book, and the lost writers are in on it... if you havent read it yet, I strongly advise you to!!

thats ok. I should post here too, and I didnt even think about it.

Oh, I didn't even think to look, Lori! I forget it doesn't put the pink "new" when a post is updated.

Thanks guys for keeping us updated. ;o)

I added it last nite. if you check out the list in post one, there at the bottom, I updated the ones for this season as they came out!

thanks for paying attention tho, I am bound to miss one!

Yet another book to add to the list: A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda.

Read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separate_...
And there is a very nice screen capture here:
http://lost.cubit.net/archives/2009/03/5...

I read The Little Prince a long, long time ago. So I'm happy to have one added to the list that doesn't add to my TBR list. :) But it's one I wouldn't mind rereading at some point.

I need to add a "well... duh!" to my dumb question about the The Little Prince reference. I rarely pay attention to the title of an episode until some time later when I get the DVD versions.

Read Le Petit Prince ages ago. In both French and English. Many years ago I bought a house on a street called "Saint-Exupéry", so of course I just had to read it.

Slaughterhouse-five was a tad depressing but I can see the the time jumping à la Desmond is very similar to poor Billy in Vonnegut's classic.

I'm still slogging through Verne's The Mysterious. Island.

The episode that aired on 2/4/09 is called "The Little Prince." Here's a quote from TV.com under "allusions" for this episode:

Le Petit Prince: The episode's title refers to the novel of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a French writer and aviator. Though outwardly a children's book, it has varied themes on life, perception and human nature. Exupery was French, like Rousseau's science expedition, and met with disaster while travelling and disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Additionally, "Besixdouze" ("B612"), the apparent name of the expedition's lost boat (as per the wreckage on the beach), is a reference to the asteroid on which The Little Prince lives in the book.

Marie. I read Slaughterhouse 5 long before I knew of the Lost Lit List... and wasnt really that thrilled with it. But I am thinking it wil be needing a reread sometime this year........

Was the reference to The Little Prince in the last episode? I missed that.

Actually Last night I started Slaughterhouse-Five. There are lots of reverences to time jumping. I can sure see where it influenced the show's writers!

Now we have another book to add to the list: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Ok Lori, I'm not that far in.. only where they start building an oven to make bricks and so on... I'll give it a bit more attention. I just felt it started getting all technical talking about chemicals and so on. Not much other action. I hope it gets a bit meatier. Thanks for the comment.

Oh No Marie.
The Mysterious Island is one of my favorite Lost Lit novels. It is so closely tied to the show... the writers drew alot from it.... wow. Are you sure you dont want to try it again???

Hi Joy, I'm new here too but I just jump in. I wanted to say I have tried a few titles from the list. I tried reading The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. OMG is that ever boring. It's all just technical stuff about how 5 guys survive on a deserted island and start building things. Maybe it gets better but I gave up on it.
I've just gotten Slaughterhouse Five in audiobook form and I know that will be much better.

I wish you were right, Olebabe, and entertained this theory too for a while but when I re-watched the DVD he looked pretty drowned in that last scene. He made a sign of the cross and was just floating there. Why would Desmond report him as dead? He would have had to see him swim out the window and head for the surface. ... I think.

ok a tad off topic, but i was watching the best clip of the four seasons on abc.go.com and it was about charlie sacraficing to save desmond, and well i just not convinced that he's dead i mean i know they havent talked about him at all for a while, but thats so lost!.. i mean he did say that he could hold his breath for 4 minutes, did he not, and well he had to wait for all the water to rush in to swim out and idk, but i just think that hes still alive

The list is continuous.... it doesnt really matter if you read them before, during or after, so long as you read em :P

I have Stranger in a Strange Land sitting on my shelf waiting its turn...

Well, I just noticed that we were supposed to try to read as many as we could on the list before the new season aired. I didn't realize that or I would have read a few more. I still want to complete my list, though. I'm planning to read Stranger in a Strange Land this month.

Absoutley Joy! Welcome and read whatever you like... I like most of what Ive read from this list ... You cant go wrong... Its a great way to kill the time till the show comes back on!

Can I join in even though I'm new to this group? I'm trying to work my way through the Lost books, starting with the ones more integral to the plot. I'll post my list now...

oh my I have to read that ! (I just saw this post sorry)

Wow, there were a few we didn't have in our list ... and some are very technical.

Luann, thanks for posting that. I do have it saved to my favorites, but havent really had time to check it out. Between this site, myspace book club and my reading, its amazing my kids even SEE me throughout the day... Its awful!

Have you seen the "Lost Book Club" on the ABC website? Their list of books (52 books) is not as extensive as the ones I've seen here and elsewhere, but they have a really fun interface for browsing through very cool-looking book covers. Also, I haven't checked title by title, but I thought I saw a couple of books that I hadn't seen on other lists.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?p...

I am so glad it works out for you too Laura, most people that have had the opportunity are very happy, homeschooling knits families together strongly and it helps to develop the kids individuality, per our experience.

I've been homeschooled my entire life (I'm going into 11th grade) and I think it's been wonderful.

My husband and I started researching about it, fell warm about the idea and before you know it, we just finished 4th grade with her, although she has breezed through LA and reading so she placed a lot higher on those courses than 5th grade for next year. She did very good in the transition and she still visits her friends from school, it gives us time to have more vacations when no one else is breathing down our necks, it was very scary for me at first, but it has worked out great.

Haha, and what did you think?

About a year and a half ago my then 9 year old girl came home one day and said, mami I want to be home-schooled I feel like I am wasting my time in there!
Yeah...

I saw that on your reading list and was very surprised! I love this book! It has wonderful resources, and good writing. I thought it was interesting that so many people thought it was rude of her when she was saying that anyone that wants to go to school is stupid. I liked it, it was very refreshing! I was very excited when I saw that you loved it as well.

Emma, I loved the Teenage Liberation Handbook! When I was in high school I ended up buying so many copies for friends of mine that dropped out. I sent one to my little brother not six months ago, he's in the midst of dropping out.. It's always good to be reminded that schooling does not equal education and that one can learn far more when you get to pursue your own interests rather than the state's curriculum.

Hey now, Sherry/ Nanner... you are totally making me want to drop my current read and start reading The Pearl now.... I never even put those two things together... nuts! I am starting to feel like I am having 'connection' problems as of late..a-haa haa haa.

Hey Nanner! Welcome! I was wondering, have you read The Teenage Liberation Handbook? It's a must-read.

Nanner,are you referring to The Pearl?It does sound a lot like Hurley's numbers and lottery win.See,we've benefitted already and haven't even read the book!

sherry that sounds a little like the numbers for hurley? but thats not having read it at all

Yes I can't wait to read thru "Lost" glasses...really if it weren't for that I probably wouldn't bother, it would seem too boring

I chose to reread a few of the ones I had previously read as well, seeing as how its been years since Ive picked them up, and now I am curious to see what the lost links could be... reading it through "lost glasses" should make them more interesting the second time around, i would imagine. Thanks for Joining :)

over the years I've read almost all of these...but to tell the truth I really don't remember them enough to post a rating so I'm going to try and re-read them :) hows that for ambition?
This is an awesome reading list..I homeschool and I've had my son read 5 of these ..its makes for a wonderful education...many more are on his reading list :)

Hmmm,sounds interesting.Please let me know what you think.Might be worth adding to my ever expanding wishlist.

Sherry, I havent read it yet, but here is a short synopsis I stole from a goodreads reviewer...

A young fisherman discovers a large pearl. Believing the pearl will afford him great wealth, he dreams of a better future for his young family. Society, however, gets in the way of his plans and he is forced to flee until a tragic event leads him to conclude that the pearl does more harm than good.

I'm adding The Stand to my list now as well, thanks, Sherry!

Lori,I'm unfamiliar with Pearl by Steinbeck.What's it about?

I think King's The Stand is very relatable in terms of 2 groups,one good,one evil, also how to survive when everything you know is drastically changed.I see The Stand in a lot of how the Lost members organize themselves in such difficult circumstances as well as in how there is focus on several members. Rather than one hero there are many.

It's my favourite book off the list.

Mysterious Island is by far my most favorite of all the ones ive read from the list so far. LOTF was a reread for me too... i had read it in HS but reading it this time was like reading it for the first time, especially paying attn to lost-like stuff :)

Thanks, Lori. I've read Lord of the Flies years and years ago but will have to revisit it and I'll add Mysterious Island to my list.

well so far, out of the ones Ive read....
Lord of the Flies and Mysterious Island are the two most closely related. Alot of what we see on Lost can be laid out side by side with these novels.

Island and VALIS were just horrible to read. Islands plot was interesting and relates to lost in the sense that here was an island that people were migrating to leave all new technology behind, live in peace, one with the island.. and that there were others out there who wanted access to it, to exploit it and make money off it. VALIS was just terrible, and didnt really have much to do with the show. It was just about a messed up psychotic who was searching for god, who he thought was an alien lifeform/sattelite that shoots information to his brain from a pink lazer beam (huh?)

Third Policeman was a trippy little novel that hooks you but confuses the hell out of you too. I dont want to give anything away here incase someone wants to read it, but towards the end, there is an underground building that is more like a room, and this room can produce whatever it is that you want, if you only think it. Sorta like Bens magic box.

And what are your favorites, I'd be very interested to see everyones favorites and compare them.