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Lost Girls Collected
by: Alan Moore

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover Comic
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781891830747
Format: Import
ISBN: 1891830740
Label: Top Shelf
Manufacturer: Top Shelf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 264
Publication Date: January 31, 2008
Publisher: Top Shelf
Studio: Top Shelf
Sales Rank: 11827

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Way out of your comfort zone.
Moore and Gebbie have presented us with a gift and a challenge. First off, this is a beautifully presented artefact. The three volumes in their slip-case look and feel wonderful. Melinda Gebbie's art is enchanting, almost dreamlike. She presents the images suggested by Moore with real beauty and honesty. Moore, in turn, asks more of his artistic collaborator than many would be able or comfortable to provide. Just about every kind of human-on-human sexual activity is here. It's erotic, yes. It's pornographic, yes. It's graphic, yes. However, because of its beauty and intelligence, none of the situations or images are utterly repellent. Moore and Gebbie force us to ask very difficult questions of ourselves. We see and read and understand these ... Read More:

Rating:

- Simply stunning.
In some ways this book is a dark delve into repressed and sometimes disturbing memories, in others it's a celebration of raw sexuality. The Dialogue is superb as each character is clearly recognisable as one of the three famous young girls. Alice in particular is very well realised. (It's great to see an older woman drawn so seductively)
I don't feel it is neccesary to decide if this is Pornography or Art, it falls into both categories.
I gave this 4 stars because I feel it may satisfy more Women than Men with it's softly drawn styles.

Rating:

- Sexual content involving children.
Lost Girls has come under fire from critics who have argued that the book displays controversial sexual content involving children - before you buy this book I think the reader should be aware of this and make a judgement as to whether they really wish to read such things (I was unaware of this).
Yes, the writing is very clever as each of the girls 'speak' in a different dialect. Also, the art reflects the original stories of Alice (as in 'Wonderland'), Dorothy (from 'Wizard of Oz') and Wendy (from Peter Pan). I had a hard time understanding why someone would wish to pollute and denigrate children's classics by having older versions of these characters describe their first sexual experiences (of which Dorothy's involves her father...although ... Read More:

Rating:

- Below Par Moore
After Eagerly awaiting Moore's latest oddessy I have to say that I was somewhat dissapointed by Lost Girls, this feeling may not have been so if Moore had concluded following Book One:

In the first Book of Lost Girls all of Moore's writing techniques are evident, subtle nods to the era, other works and juxtapositions of two different events happening concurrently, added to this there is the very smart premise that the fantasy stories of Wendy, Dorothy and Alice are formed through the repression of their first sexual experiences. I would therefore give the first book 4stars.

Unfortunately I cannot say the same for the following 2 books, book 2 being the one of least merit (2 Stars), Moore continues to sexualise the fantasy ... Read More:

Rating:

- Art or pornography
Alan Moore's long awaited and unabashed pornographic epic finally arrives. Is it worth the wait? Yes and no. The quality of the art is undeniably supreb with Melinda Gebbie demonstrating a range of styles and the quality and craft of Moore's writing is of a high level. However, I'm not convinced of some of the points he's making, such as, if incidents are fictional then there is no harm in them. Art or pornography? I'm still undecided.

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