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| Lost Girls | 
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| Authors: Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Category: Book
Buy New: $80.03
New (6) Used (3) Collectible (1) from $74.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 17299
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Writing, Unpalatable Art November 8, 2006
18 out of 23 found this review helpful
I am forever disappointed with the artists Mr. Moore pairs up with. I really wanted to like this book, I'm always thrilled when sex, especially female sex, gets the treatment it deserves as an acceptable, some would say necessary, part of fiction. But I've really had it with the artwork. Time and time again I've suffered through the graphic novels touted as filled with high literary standards but third grade artwork. I sincerely wish Mr. Moore would just write a prose novel as the artwork in this particular collection is so astoundingly bad that I could barely read it.
I believe that good graphic novels are a mutually beneficial pairing between good text AND good art; but what passes for good graphic novels, the ones that college professors feel comfortable regarding as art and literature, tend to be ONLY good text. Where are the standards? I wish I could say I'm astounded that hardly anyone else has mentioned how bad the art is but it has been my experience that, for some reason, the masses cannot tell good art from bad. Or perhaps people are just so eager to flatter the V for Vendetta writer that they don't care what the art is like just so they appear avant garde and deep.
If you're looking for an interesting story and have no artistic bone in your body, then sure, buy it. But if bad art makes you cringe and weep, then you'd better leave the Lost Girls on the shelf.
 Beautiful erotica November 10, 2006
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
This 3-volume set is an antidote to the imagination-free pornography that saturates the internet and the video market. While it's plenty explicit and free of cuteness and prudish euphemism, its retro art style reflects the undercurrents of suppressed passion in the characters, and the story-line evokes a sense of mystery and reticence that are far more erotic than the close-ups of genitalia and sweaty circus-sex that comprise most sexual literature these days. It reminds us that the most erotic device is, and will always be, the imagination.
 waste of talent? - discuss January 10, 2007
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
Well it took a long time to come out, and is a very professional piece of work, but does it actually say anything new; No, because the book is a triumph of style over substance. Yes the writing is very clever in its evocation of early 20th Century erotica, yes the artwork is in several different styles all of whom will mean something to a devotee of this form, yes the package is nicely put together in 3 hardbacked books (even though I am not convinced with the quality of the paper) but to the uninvolved general reader looking to something new from one of the best writers around it does not really produce the goods. Yes it is erotic and arousing in places, but it still feels dry and uninvolved, like someone had given him this exercise to do as homework. The style is a little like a continuation of the last "League" adventure, but spread out over twice as many pages, and it shows, as it drags in places. the artwork takes a little getting used to, and sometimes felt a bit cartoony to me, but in other places is very well realised. The sex is liberally applied, and includes all combinations and all ages, but since we are dealing with little stick people here, it is difficult to care whether they are overage, or related, or the same sex. This is one of the points that Alan Moore is making, but it still does not involve you in the storytelling as much as his recent works with "Top 10" or the first series of the "league". In the end I am sure that it ticks all the boxes he wanted it to, and should be read at least once by any fan wanting to see the spin he can put on three great stories ("Alice", "Peter Pan" and "Oz") but I would rather he was back creating stories of his own, instead of just re-using other peoples characters to rewrite their stories.
Sorry, Alan... it's not porn November 10, 2006
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
I know Alan Moore is adamant that "Lost Girls" is pornography, but I just don't see it. Yes, Gebbie's art lends a dream-like eroticism to the book, and Moore does his best to infuse the proceedings with sufficient perversity to offend the sensibilities of those who like to be offended. But that's about it... "Lost Girls" is far too literate and artful to be a true, one-handed read.
Fortunately, I don't care that doesn't live up (down?) to the author's ambitions... it's still an amazing, enjoyable piece of work.
Art or Pornography? November 10, 2006
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
It's most definitely art because of the amazing renderings and wide ranging styles employed by Melinda Gebbie. And it's most definitely pornography, but at the furthest end of the spectrum from the cheap sordid type prevalent in Jazz Mags or The News Of The World. There is a richness and depth in Alan Moore's writing and the numerous pastiches skillfully match his partner's beautiful artwork.
This has been worth waiting 16 years for them to complete. And there's not many times that you could say that! The only comparison I can think of is Brian Wilson's Smile, which took 37 years from gestation to completion.
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