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Get 'Lost' in island reading
Published 7/1/2008 by Whitney Matheson at USATODAY.com - Pop Candy
Summer really must be book-club season. ABC.com has just announced the formation of a Lost Book Club , which will spotlight titles that have been referenced on the show. Sawyer Right now the book-club site shows a list of books that have been mentioned on each season of the series. You can browse the list by season or theme (books that have popped up in the background, address the theme, have been quoted, etc.)"Also available on ABC.com will be 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 ...

Read all about it: the 'Lost Book Club'
Published 7/1/2008 by Ann Oldenburg at USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live
... Remember way back when Sawyer was reading Watership Down in an early Lost episode ? Today, ABC.com is launching the “ Lost Book Club ” to give fans a chance to read and chat about books seen or referenced - such as Watership Down - throughout the first four seasons of Lost, with an introduction by co-creator/executive producer Damon Lindelof. By Mario Perez, ABC

The Lost Book Club: Read the Books Referenced in the Show
Published 7/1/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
Do you miss Lost? Are you jonesing for a new book club (perhaps you've already read my book club selection for this month)? 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, the book club section of Lost's official website will feature a list of "the books that have been either seen or referenced ...

"Lost" turns a page
Published 7/1/2008 by Variety.com * at Cynthia Littleton On The Air
... Like parents trying to get the kids to turn off the TV and the Wii and spend some time between covers this summer, ABC and "Lost" stewards Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have launched the "Lost Book Club " via ABC.com and iTunes. It is exactly what it sounds like: A running list of books that have made their way on to one of the smallscreen's Best Shows Ever. There's info about each title, details of how it was referenced on the show and of course, a forum for fan gabbery. It's a little something to help tide us over during the (argggh) seven more months (give or take a week ...

Another Way For Us 'Lost' Fans to Get Our Geek On
Published 7/2/2008 at MSN TV Blog
... We all know it'll be a long, long time until we see the next new episode of "Lost." In the meantime, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse - I still refuse to refer to them collectively as "Darlton" - want you to read books. More specifically? Books that have come up on "Lost:" ...

ABC.com Launches the 'Lost' Book Club
Published 7/2/2008 at LOST -- The Tail Section
I have a frightening addiction to buying books, which is somewhat silly since I don't have nearly enough time to read them. ABC.com has decided to enable my addiction by launching the Lost Book Club. If you head to ...

'Lost' Book Club redefines beach reading
Published 7/3/2008 by Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... If Oprah can use television to encourage people to read classic literature, why can't Juliet, Ben, and Sawyer? Check out the Lost Book Club (hat tip to EW book maven Thom Geier), a guide to more than 40 books that have been referenced on the series to date. Each book is one that has been used as a prop (like Stephen King's Carrie, which the Others were reading in their own book club on the day Flight 815 crashed into the island), has been referenced in the plot (such as Jack Kerouac's On the Road, whose wandering hero Dean Moriarty is Ben's alias ...

We've Got To Move The Libarary
Published 7/3/2008 at Videogum
... Earlier this week, ABC launched the Lost Book Club, which allows you to while away the summer months between seasons (and also the fall months, and a few winter months, because Lost doesn't come back until January 2009). The purpose of the Book Club is to really deepen your connection to "the gang" (That's what we call them now, the gang. Lost is a cartoon for tweens, right?) by exploring any book that was ever shown laying on Ben's coffee table, or burning in the twisted steel wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815, and also books that just happened to be lying on the ...

We've Got To Move The Library
Published 7/3/2008 at Videogum
... Earlier this week, ABC launched the Lost Book Club, which allows you to while away the summer months between seasons (and also the fall months, and a few winter months, because Lost doesn't come back until January 2009). The purpose of the Book Club is to really deepen your connection to "the gang" (That's what we call them now, the gang. Lost is a cartoon for tweens, right?) by exploring any book that was ever shown laying on Ben's coffee table, or burning in the twisted steel wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815, and also books that just happened to be ...

Lost launches a Book Club!
Published 7/4/2008 by LiRa at Watching Lost
... "Also available on ABC.com will be 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." Some of the titles included in the list for reading are The Fountainhead, Lord of the Flies, Sawyer’s choice — Watership Down and Juliet’s choice — Carrie. Head to the website for more details. ...

ABC Invites You To Get Lost In Books [Lost]
Published 7/6/2008 by Graeme McMillan at io9
... The Book Club - running through the Lost section of ABC's website - is the creation of executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who explain why they came up with the idea in a friendly, fireside, letter-to-the-reader: ...

RZA Runs Out of Dialogue to Sample; Will Direct His Own Kung-Fu Movie
Published 7/7/2008 at Vulture
... The Lost Book Club: ABC's Website offers a complete guide to all the books featured on three seasons of Lost. Expect sales of An ECG Workout: Exercises in Arrhythmia Interpretation to achieve a spike in sales as a result. [ABC.com] ...

Shorties
Published 7/8/2008 by david (boy@largeheartedboy.com) at Largehearted Boy
... If you watch the television series Lost, don't forget there is an online book club dedicated to the books mentioned on the show. ...