Two girls. One epic TV show. Hundreds of books to get through.
Every month we'll be reading one book from LOST that helped make the show as awesome as it was.
Hey, we all have to deal with LOST withdrawal somehow.
Book of the Month
July — Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
August — Heart of Darkness
September — Lord of the Flies
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Sawyer: Folks down on the beach might have been doctors and accountants a month ago, but it’s Lord of the Flies time now.
LOST 1x17 In Translation
Like Sawyer said, it’s Lord of the Flies time now here at the LOST Book Club. If y’all have any lingering thoughts on Heart of Darkness feel free to let us know here or here. If not, let’s gear up to read William Golding’s classic and one of my favorites.
Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a centre for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing.
Heart of Darkness
Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage; there was not an atom of fore-sight or of serious intention in the whole batch of them, and they did not seem aware these things are wanted for the work of the world. To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
I would just like to say how happy I am that Heart of Darkness is the reading this month. Simply because it’s required reading for one of my classes this semester. Two birds, one stone.
(submitted by amberkelly)
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What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth! … The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires.
Heart of Darkness
