“All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle. [ALL PICTURES: CLICK FOR LARGER VIEW] First off, you should know Kurt Vonnegut NEVER gave that MIT commencement speech [“Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 1997: Wear Sunscreen”] that floated all over the Internet. [...]
Happy August WRLBers! This month’s book is Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It’s another relatively short one! The reading schedule will be easy this time. We have a little over 200 pages (by my copy) spread through 10 chapters. That gives us roughly 2 and a half chapters a week. I don’t know why I’m [...]
Jul 302010
The WRLB Lord of the Flies Bookclub Podcast Discussion is now up! On the call is @bam0mbot @lostiegirl78 and @jedimasterchief Download here! (http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-76142/TS-381697.mp3) Forgive the audio, for whatever reason, Amber’s audio sort of came in waves. And and here’s what I meant when I said I was disappointed in my younger self. I am absolutely [...]
You are cordially invited to the LOST Bookclub discussion of this month’s book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Our discussion leader will be @lostiegirl78! She’ll be passing around the conch shell during the discussion as we talk about the book and how it relates to our favorite show LOST. I’ve slaved over a [...]
HAPPY A-LITTLE-PAST-THE-MIDWAY-WELLLLLL-WE-MIGHT-AS-WELL-SAY-3/4-POINT Lord of the Flies is a much shorter book, so you should be around chapter 8ish, but with only 12 chapters you’ve still got time to catch up! Our book didn’t wash up on shore in any of the episodes, but a couple of times it was referenced in conversation. Thanks to Lostpedia [...]
I think my fellow losties will like the new movie Inception. Inception is about group of people that specialize in breaking into other people dreams and trying to retrieve information. Leonardo DiCaprio’s character is the best at this retrieval job and wants to return to the family he had to leave behind.
Leo is hired by Ken Watanabe’s character to not retrieve information but to implant an idea into someone else dream for corporate use. The term for implanting an idea is called Inception. If Leo and his team are successful then Ken’s character will fix it so that Leo can go home.
Being able to share someone else’s dream and manipulate them I find really interesting. Dreams within dreams. What is real and what isn’t.
The movie special effects are amazing and blew me away. Some phrases like taking a leap of faith, letting go are will remind you of Lost.
BOOK PREVIEW by Amy (@aohora) Logline: A plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from WWII torn Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. The surviving boys’ attempts to organize themselves for rescue drive them straight into the question of human existence: Who are we once accountability for external law and order are removed? [...]
Thanks to Lostpedia for doing all the hard work for me, but here’s the list of episodes in which our book of the month, Watership Down, appears. No schedule for these episodes. Watch them at your leisure. We will be discussing them along with our review of the book during the two scheduled chats and the podcast at the end of the month. Please check out our calendar for the dates of these events.
Episodes:
House of the Rising Sun 1×06
Confidence Man 1×08
Jun 132010
Heeeeeello fellow WRLB readers!! Happy almost midpoint!! No real big updates except that the Calendar section of the bookclub area is now completely up to date for the month of June. I’ll go ahead and update the rest of the months with the books that are allotted sometime this week. If you are just joining [...]
CHAPTER 3: Who’s Who Again?
In Chapter 1, we discussed a few of the basic elements of storytelling on LOST and how “Everything is real,” (but not physically real) and how this constructed (restricted by available resources) is developed. In Chapter 2, we discussed how our losties experience the world of LOST — one experience at a time in the order WE SEE it in the show. There’s no time travel, and there’s no external timeline (nothing WE SEE happens to our losties before Jack opens his eye in “Pilot” or after he closes it in “The End”).
In Chapter 3, we’ll be examining character and how character development works in the island and flash worlds.
Let’s talk about identity.
