I guess I should finally post my list here!

Books I've read in the past:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Holy Bible
Chronicles of Narnia
The Dark Tower series
Dune
Harry Potter
Jurassic Park
The Pearl
A Tale of Two Cities
Through the Looking-Glass
To Kill a Mockingbird
Watership Down
The Wizard of Oz
A Wrinkle in Time
The Little Prince

Books I've read just because of their Lost connection:

Catch-22 - read 7/20/07
Lord of the Flies - read 8/2/07
Carrie - read 9/11/07
Slaughterhouse-Five - read 11/3/08
The Stand - read 12/23/08
Stranger in a Strange Land - read 2/21/09
Evil Under the Sun - reread 4/18/09
The Outsiders - read 5/10/09
O Pioneers! - 6/19/09

Those Lost creators don't read the most cheerful books, do they? :)

Books I plan to read in the near future:
-Of Mice and Men
-The Mysterious Island
-And maybe it's time for me to finally finish Moby Dick? We'll see. Maybe sometime this year.

Plan to reread soon:
Watership Down

Luann, are you currently reading anything from the Lost lit now?

Not to barg in, but a few months back I read Bad Twin, which was good.

Ive heard mixed reviews on that one. I have been tempted to pick it up, but just never have.....

Lori wrote: "Ive heard mixed reviews on that one. I have been tempted to pick it up, but just never have....."

It's not a bad book, got a few Lost references in it which are really cool.

I did have Stranger in a Strange Land checked out from the library, and planned to read it last month. But The Stand took way too long, and I had to return Stranger before I read it. I'll check it out again soon. It's the Lost-related book I'm planning to read next. Maybe I'll pick up Evil Under the Sun at the same time.

I'm finally getting to Evil Under the Sun. I wasn't sure if I had read it before. I've read a lot of Agatha Christie, but didn't keep a list and it was a lot of years ago! Now that I'm about half way through, I've started remembering things. So I HAVE read it before. It's fun to reread, though, since I haven't remembered "whodunit" yet. :)

Oh, it is the same thing for me. I just can't remember any detective novel-plotes or characteres, though I read a lot of detective books.

Makes it nice when you want to reread. Although if I remembered better maybe I wouldn't have to reread. :)

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie. 4 stars.

Just finished this. It was such fun! I love it that Agatha Christie can still surprise me, even with a book I've already read. Although in my defense it has been years and years since I first read it. It seemed the details I remembered to be suspicious of only led me in the wrong direction! :) Dame Christie truly is a master of misdirection!

I'll post about the Lost-related details in our "Lost Books We've Read" folder, but I'm going to post here a picture of the edition Sawyer is shown reading. It is also the one I added to my list since the one I actually read was VERY old from the library and didn't have any picture on the cover at all. I guess to be more authentic to the Lost details I should have found this edition to read! :)

Okay, I just noticed something weird. I was making sure I had all of the Lost books I'd read on my list, and now that I've added Evil Under the Sun, there are 23 books on my list! :) What have they done? I'll never look at those numbers in quite the same way again! :)

LOL! You have made me want to read that book ... great review. So what was the connection with the show?

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. 4 stars.

I read The Outsiders over the weekend. It's another book that everyone in the world read in high school, but I never did. I enjoyed it a lot! It was tough and gritty with some violence, but it wasn't littered with strong language for the "realism." S.E. Hinton did a great job of creating characters you really care about - and who learned and progressed throughout the story. Now I want to see the movie!

I'll post about the Lost-related details in our "Lost Books We've Read" folder.

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. 4 stars.

This was a pleasure to read! Willa Cather's writing is straightforward and plain, yet beautiful at the same time. It completely mirrors the characters and the land written of in "O Pioneers!"

I've been thinking about what makes a classic, since this book is a classic yet isn't like many others I've read. I see this as a classic because it gives you a chance to step back and see your life through new eyes and compare it through the light of new experiences that you've never actually had, but feel like you have now that you've read about them. A classic is a book that changes you, even just a little, in a profound way, just because you've read it. And that's how I feel having just finished this. I've been changed, just a little, because I read this book.

Two favorite quotes:
"She had never known before how much the country meant to her. The chirping of the insects down in the long grass had been like the sweetest music. She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun. Under the long shaggy ridges, she felt the future stirring."

"People have to snatch at happiness when they can in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find."

I'll post about the Lost-related details in our "Lost Books We've Read" folder.