
Do you miss Lost [1]? Are you jonesing for a new book club (perhaps you've already read my book club selection for this month [2])? Are you slightly obsessed with any scene in the show that includes Sawyer reading? (Or is that just me?) Well, ABC is offering one solution to the no-Lost-'til-January-2009 blues: a Lost-themed online book club.
As ABC explains it [3], the book club section [4] of Lost's official website [5] will feature a list of "the books that have been either seen or referenced throughout the dynamic four seasons" of the show, and will include "a message board to discuss the titles, a synopsis of each book, along with when and how it was referenced in the show, and an introduction by co-creator/executive producer Damon Lindelof and executive producer Carlton Cuse."
There are many titles I've never noticed in the show, though I definitely recognize some of them. Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, for example, has been clearly referenced in Desmond's storyline, with all the weird time stuff he experiences. Others have been used as titles for specific episodes, like Stranger in a Strange Land [6] and The Shape of Things to Come [7]. Oh, and of course I'll always remember Sawyer reading Are You There God? It's Me Margaret on the beach.
Sawyer + Judy Blume? That is my kinda beach day.
Anyway, click here [8] to start checking out the Lost book club for yourself!