LOST in Literature

LiL = LOST in Literature

Golden Spiral Media’s We Have To Go Back podcast

September 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the LOST premiere and people are making all sorts of whacky plans. There is a group of fans organizing a reunion party in Hawaii and I know a lot of people who are going. I have not made up my mind yet. In the meantime, I was asked to assist in a LOST rewatch by providing a literary analysis each week for a podcast Golden Spiral Media is doing.

We Have To Go Back: A LOST Revisited Podcast is hosted by Darrell and his wife Kari, who watch two episodes each week and discuss memories, theories, and concepts the show brought up. It is very spoilery, definitely not for anyone looking to go through the show for a first time. But for those who love LOST and are looking for an excuse to rewatch (or at least drum up some memories!), this is a podcast for you.

My segment is near the end, after the episode discussions. Darrell gives me about 10 minutes each week to deliver my analysis and I usually soak up every last one of those minutes. Below you’ll find a running list of the books I’ve read and discussed, as well as any blog posts associated with them (I only recently started publishing posts week-to-week). A sample audio segment of Lord of the Flies and more information can be found here.

UPDATE 5/11/2014
I will be attending the 2014 Lost event in Hawaii! If you will be there, look me up.

UPDATE 9/25/2014
Back from Hawaii! Here are the posts from my experiences:

• Day 1: Hawaiian Convention Center, Ala Wai Canal, Waikiki Yacht Club
• Day 2: Valley of the Temples, Moli’i Pond, Waimea Valley Waterfalls, YMCA Camp Erdman and Mokule’ia Beach Park

LIST OF ANALYSES

1. The Island Aldous Huxley
2. Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke
3. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
4. Watership Down Richard Adams
5. Solitary Jean Jacques Rousseau
6. The Mysterious Island Jules Verne
7. The Stand Stephen King
8. Moby Dick Herman Melville
9. Lord of the Flies William Golding
10. A Wrinkle In Time Madeline L’Engle
11. Revisiting “The Monster”
12. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
13. The Third PolicemanFlann O’Brien
14. The Outsiders S.E. Hinton & The Pearl John Steinbeck
15. The Third Policeman Flann O’Brien
16. Epic of Gilgamesh unknown
17. After All These Years Susan Isaacs
18. Josiah 1 Kings 13 & 2 Kings 23
19. Bad Twin Gary Troup
20. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce
21. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22. Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
23. Dirty Work Stuart Woods
24. The Odyssey Homer
25. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
26. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
27. To Kill A Mockingbird Nelle Harper Lee
28. Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nobokov
29. Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein
30. Ishmael Daniel Quinn
31. Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie
32. Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
33. Catch 22 Joseph Heller
34. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
35. The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt
36. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll
37. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
38. The Invention of Morel Aldofo Bioy Casares
39. VALIS Philip K. Dick
40. Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
41. The Tempest Shakespeare
42. Mount Analogue Rene Daumal
43. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
44. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
45. The Little Prince Antoine Saint-Exupery
46. Turn of the Screw Henry James
47. Various Works Jeremy Bentham
48. A Separate Reality Carlos Castenada
49. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
50. Lancelot Walker Percy
51. Flowers For AlgernonDaniel Keyes
52. Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O’Connor
53. Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard
54. What Katy Did Susan Coolidge
55. A Wrinkle in Time Madeline L’Engle
56. The Chosen Chaim Potok
57. Till We Have Faces C.S. Lewis (Part 1)
58. Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostvoesky
59. The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis (Part 2)
60. The Langoliers (Four Past Midnight) Stephen King
61. The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis (Part 3)