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| Lost Girls | 
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| Authors: Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Category: Book
List Price: $75.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 50425
Media: Hardcover Comic
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.3
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 9.3 x 2.7
ISBN: 1891830740
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781891830747
ASIN: 1891830740
Publication Date: September 13, 2006
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 terrible November 30, 2006
21 out of 70 found this review helpful
Being that I love Alan Moore's work I thought I would give this a try. It turned out to be a total waste of my money. His writing in this book is about as important as writing is in any pornographic work. Totally worthless. The focus of the story is the graphic sexuality not the writing. And the artwork isn't even that good, it looks childish especially considering the subject matter. Alan Moore said he wanted to publish this book in part to protest the genre of pornography because it has no standards. But it seems to me that he just embraces that genre. If you really want to view pornography you might as well save your money and buy several pronographic magazines for the same price as Lost Girls. You will get just as much of a story out of it and you will see real people instead of childish looking art.
 A good script, but oh, the art... December 3, 2006
21 out of 35 found this review helpful
After it got tied up in a disagreement with Great Ormond Street Hospital who own the rights to Peter Pan I was forced to buy this from the US and get it shipped over to the UK, and thank God the pounds to dollar exchange rate is so strongly in my favour at the moment as otherwise I would have felt very disappointed by the amount I paid for the finished item.
The story, that the tales of 'Peter Pan', 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were really about the sexual awakenings of the main female characters in each, is an interesting prospect but is chopped into tiny chapters of five or six pages which means things take a while to get going. But while Alan Moore's script is average amongst his impressive body of work the artwork by his partner, Melinda Gebbie, is disappointing and weak. It's extremely flat and rarely gives the readerany sense of a depth to the scenes. With one exception all the characters look like they are cut from one basic template for each sex, then given different hair or clothing, Alice doesn't often look much older than Dorothy, despite a good thirty years difference in age, at least.
Maybe both things are actually a clever comment on the restrictive nature of character within pornography but in the end it stopped me from enjoying this story as much as I might.
If you really feel you want to get this I'd recommend keeping control of yourself until they release a cheaper paperback edition, as I suppose they will do at some point. As it is now it's far too much for far too little.
 Pretty & Pretty Clever October 2, 2006
20 out of 26 found this review helpful
The first thing to notice about this Lost Girls collection is how beautiful it is. The artwork is very attractive and it comes as three large volumes in a boxed set that is reminiscent of the collections of fairy tales the authors are emulating. Of course, you wouldn't want to inadvertently leave this on your child's bookshelf because this is a collection that is clearly for adults.
I think creating good erotica is one of the hardest tasks for a writer--too much depends on the quirks and tastes of the reader. I have rarely read an author who I felt was completely successful and Moore & Gebbie are no exception. Still, much of what you will find here is very good.
The story is framed around three women who meet at a hotel run by a Frenchman of rather sexual tastes. But he is only a minor character. It is the three women who are the driving force here. They quickly become intimate (in more ways than one) and share their sexual histories. Gradually, it becomes clear that these three women--Alice, Dorothy and Wendy--are telling variations of Through the Looking Glass, The Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan. Ironically, these retellings are in some ways more believable than the originals, though for adults only. In any case, anyone with real strong feelings for these three children's stories is advised to tread carefully.
I, for one, felt Wendy's tales to be the most absorbing with Dorothy's coming in a close second. There are also some excerpts taken from classic Victorian erotica that make an occasional welcome presence. The rest I could take or leave, which leaves for some short stretches of rather uninteresting reading.
In the end, however, I have to give Moore & Gebbie credit for creating something very clever. I can appreciate the skill it took to weave these retellings and I enjoyed much of it. Certainly, I enjoyed the artwork and I am interested to see what else might spring from their imagination.
Boring February 26, 2007
19 out of 41 found this review helpful
I was really looking forward to this release, but once I had it, I found it to be lacking. The characters have no depth, and somehow Moore managed to make a wonderful idea boring. Despite the graphic illustrations, I found myself drifting off, my eyes sliding over the text and the stories. I had to make myself re-read everything, and found it a chore to do so.
This graphic novel isn't even a good male fantasy, and most of the the things that are in there for shock value aren't even shocking or thought provoking--just done in bad taste that doesn't even engage. (Though my friends and I had good laughs on how we speculated Dorothy could only get aroused now by watching the weather channel.)
 Like real life September 17, 2006
18 out of 26 found this review helpful
A comment on an earlier review, which said in part: "Just about the oddest preconceived notion in literature is that sex--generally a positive experience in real life--is widely considered dirty, low brow, and smutty (to list very few adjectives), whereas violence--generally a negative experience in real life--is considered exciting, entertaining, and, in some form or another, a remarkably suitable metaphor for the human condition." -- J. Downey"
I quite agree, and I'll add that this notion comes from real life, from a huge portion of humanity, including "religious right" types. If you notice, TV and film censors have much bigger problems with even the slightest nudity (Janet Jackson's nipplegate) than with hard violence.
This book is a lovely work.
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