Lost

A Novel

By: Gregory Maguire

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

“A brilliant, perceptive, and deeply moving fable.”
—Boston Sunday Globe

Publishers Weekly calls Gregory Maguire’s Lost “a deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story.” Brilliantly weaving together the literary threads of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and the Jack the Ripper stories, the bestselling author of The Wicked Years canon creates a captivating fairy tale for the modern world. With Lost, Maguire—who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Oz, and inspired the creation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway blockbuster Wicked—delivers a haunting tale of shadows and phantoms and things going bump in the night, confirming his reputation as “one of contemporary fiction’s most assured myth-makers” (Kirkus Reviews).

©2001 Gregory Maguire; (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers

No action

This is one of only few books i have given up on. I am 4 hours into the book and absolutely nothing has happened exept from a knocking sound from a wall. The narration is no good either. Everyone exept the leading character sounds like evil goblins and it gets annoying after a while.

Underwhelming

This story was weird, convoluted, & took too long to become mildly interesting. It is only vaguely connected to "A Christmas Carol."

Interesting but disappointing.

I love this author and yet, this long and under edited story was frustratingly filled with scene after scene that did not move the story forward nor draw the reader in. The audible reading was awkward and jarring as it the main character was American and yet the narrator was British. That would have been fine except that she pretended American accents for other characters. Since so much if the story was inside the head of an American woman I found it hard to connect. Not just the accent but the delivery. Overall interesting, but disappointing.

Underwhelming

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Not really. I was expecting more from this author.

What do you think your next listen will be?

doctor sleep by Stephen king.

Which scene was your favorite?

When she found out if the baby survived and learned the truth about the death.

disappointed

This was a struggle to finish. I kept hoping it would make sense in the end, but NOPE! I forsure am lost on the plot of this book. Its like 3 or 4 different plots that tried to roll into one.
I have a hard copy of this book as well, which did help a little, as diffent parts and voices are in different fonts. However the story, with the way it was narrated and edited together was not good. I've never returned a book and I did finish it, but.....