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Lost tv show12/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Charlie was going to die and Desmond knew it. “In Season 3 it was ‘Catch 22’ by Joseph Heller. “Each season had a book that has for me really resonated,” Brush said. ![]() Rather than one all-encompassing book that sums up the entire series, each season seemed to have a few titles relevant to the storyline. He’s not the biggest or strongest but he’s smart and grows wise.” “‘Watership Down’ was the book that got me started reading the books on the show,” said James Brush, a high school English teacher in Austin, Texas, who started his own blog devoted to the books on “Lost.” “It always makes me think of Jack. “Watership Down,” Richard Adams’ novel about a society of rabbits searching for a safe place in a threatening world, is one. There are a few titles that have been referenced regularly throughout the series and undoubtedly for good reasons. All reflect the producers’ and writers’ fondness for great literature. Whether it’s a plot line, character or theme, many elements seen in “Lost” can be traced back to a book: time travel (“A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking), alternate realities (‘Alice in Wonderland,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” A Wrinkle in Time’), differing points of view and flashbacks (“Catch 22’) or simply the title of an episode (“Through the Looking Glass,” “Tale of Two Cities,” “There’s No Place Like Home”). More than 70 books have been referenced during the six seasons, including heavy reads such as the 700-page “Ulysses” by James Joyce and “The Odyssey’ by Homer. Both based on incredibly intricate and involved character dynamics,’ Cuse said. “It was this very long, character-oriented book that hung on a high-concept premise that the entire nation had been infected with this super-flu, and it was the equivalent of people crashing on this mysterious island. They noted Stephen King’s “The Stand” as a blueprint for early episodes. ![]()
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