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| Lost Girls | 
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| Authors: Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Category: Book
Buy New: $80.08
New (6) Used (5) Collectible (1) from $68.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 11134
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:
 I feel validated in my disappointment... September 10, 2007
10 out of 18 found this review helpful
When I first read Lost Girls, I was so deeply disappointed in the flat, amateur artwork that it took me a while to realize how flat and unexciting the storytelling is as well. I can't believe that the book made it to production with the ridiculous dialect Alan Moore assigns to Dorothy, which is tremendously distracting in and of itself. I was expecting a magical experience from this collaboration - and to me magical doesn't mean it can't also be creepy and disturbing, which Lost Girls definitely is - but found this book to be the least imaginative of any Alan Moore I've read. At one point I thought the creepy factor might be clouding my view, but after reading other reviewers' comments, I felt validated to see that others share the same opinions about its shortcomings.
 Puts The Fantasy Back In Fairy Tales November 10, 2006
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
"Beautifully illustrated and intelligently scripted, this odyssey avoids many of the traps of obvious plot points that other reinterpretations of classic stories have fallen into. Thought provoking and dreamlike this collection is an excellent experience for anyone on either side of the looking glass"
 Classics Comic Smut November 10, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Fascinating reimagining of the heroines of classic children's stories as sexual beings. Worth reading, if only for the sheer fact of its existence and the fact it will unnerve people to see it on your shelf. Alan Moore triumphs once again.
Enjoyable erotica August 31, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
OK, some will balk at the premise. We all know Dodgson's Alice, Baum's Dorothy, and Barrie's Wendy as little girls, in the familiar fictions built around them. This takes the fiction a step beyond, imagining the girls as grown women, thrown together in an isolated resort on the eve of the first world war. Alice, the grande dame, stands aloof from political unpleasantness. Wendy is wed to an industrialist more interested in armored boat hulls than in breakfast (or in her). Dorothy appears as a plain old farm girl, who can't imagine that grand duke Ferdinand might affect her little life. Geographically isolated at this odd resort and culturally isolated by their individual circumstance, they break their personal isolation in each others' company.
They succeed, and break each others' inhibitions as well. With Moore's script and Gebbie's delicate colors, we follow a delightful debauch. Alice takes the two younger ladies under her opium-scented wing, for languidly choreographed affections of the sapphic kind. Dorothy brings her farm-girl awareness of livestock breeding to her human relations, male and female. Wendy, the ignored housewife, blossoms under any attention at all. Other characters round out the goings-on with straight, gay, and solo loving. The happy and consensual tone could appeal to readers who've been turned off by harsher kinds of erotica, and Gebbie's delicate artwork treats it all with lucious respect.
Make no mistake, this is smut. Decide whether that's what you want. It's good smut, though, of a female-friendly kind - the kind that also appeals to men tired of all that negative imagery. If you often find your genitals requesting the company and comfort of your hands, this could be a story for them to read to each other.
-- wiredweird
an instant classic! January 3, 2007
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
After reading pretty much everything from Alan Moore, I could not wait to get my hands on this book (or beit to get this book (or better: three books, since it comes in a bookshell)tter: three books, since it comes in a bookshell)
I was not disappointed.
Is it [...] Yes- but there are layers of meaning and a sophisticated use of semiotics that lifts it up way above all those glossy coffee-table
books with "adult content" that you might get offered.
You have never seen the story of Peter Pan told from this point of view, and this beeing Moore, he lets you make your own connections to the original publication.
You will also find very clever use of the styles of erotica from the turn of the 19th century.
In short: If you are looking for a challengin read and to broaden you horizon to what comics can accomplish if they are handled as masterfully as Mr. Moore and Mrs. Gebby
did here- this is you book!
My highest possible recommendation.
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