Title: If only he had lost the manuscript....
Product review: Lost disappoints on every level. From the scarcity of a plot (200 pages of Winifred Rudge feeling sorry for herself, the rest of them everyone telling her she feels sorry for herself), the failed attempt at a convincing tie-in to the Dickens Scrooge character, fluffy, contrived dialog, shallow characters with comic-book level histories and cliche tragedies, to an ending that is...well, not an ending. Instead, the last page happens to arrive before the climax. What is labeled as a ghost story contains 15 pages of actual ghostings.Maguire attempts in Lost to leave behind the fairy-tale parodies that made him famous and offer a book where the characters are more real. Ironically, he offers a book where the characters are less real than their fantasy counterparts.For better novels with a similar tone and subject matter, find a John Irving novel and leave this one on the shelf.
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