Title: Awful writing - I just couldn't finish this book
Product review: I'm a passionate and avid reader, and it's not often I choose to abandon a book without finishing it ... but that's exactly what happened with 'Lost'.Other reviewers have already commented on the problems with the storyline(s) and the unpleasant, emotionally detached characters. For me, it was the writing style that really grated - Maguire's intent when writing seems to be to show how erudite and learned he is ... rather than concentrating on what's really important, communicating the story to the reader.I consider myself neither illiterate nor uneducated, but when I have to reach for a dictionary to check the meanings of three separate words in the space of two pages (gelid, cess, emphysematous) - well, all that serves to do is take me out of the story.I can't think of any way in which I would recommend this book (which is a shame as I bought it because I thought it looked like an intriguing tale) so I can really only suggest that you avoid this one.
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