About this title: For more than a century, Alice, Wendy and Dorothy have been our guides through the "Wonderland", "Neverland" and "Land of Oz" of our childhoods. Now like us, these three lost girls have grown up and are ready to guide us again, this time through the realms of our sexual awakening and fulfillment. Through their familiar fairytales they share with us their most intimate revelations of desire in its many forms, revelations that shine out radiantly through the dark clouds of war gathering around a luxury Austrian hotel. Drawing on the rich heritage of erotica, "Lost Girls" is the rediscovery of ...
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Description: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket Slip case is very good condition with a bit of wear on edges of case. Inside books are in like new condition. read more
Description: Very Good. 1891830740 Three volume set. Bindings are HARDCOVER. Very Good in Very Good Jackets. in original publishers slipcase. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Top Shelf
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781891830747ISBN:1891830740
Description: New. First printing, 3 volume version in slipcase. New in shrinkwrap. Oversize title. International orders may require extra shipping. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions, Marietta, Georgia, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781891830747ISBN:1891830740
Description: Very Good + in Very Good jacket. 3 volumes in slipcase (light wear and soiling to case; DJ on Volume 1 has minor edge wear with 1/2" tear at spine bottom. read more
"Alan Moore, creator of successful comic books that have been made into motion pictures such as: Watchmen, From Hell, and V for Vendetta, takes three classic female characters that we all know, and provides us with an extremely vivid, alternate account of their existence. Set against the backdrop of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Moore tells the story of Alice, from Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy, from the Wizard of Oz, and Wendy, from Peter Pan, as they meet as strangers at a hotel in Austria. Once there, they graphically detail their sexual desires to one another, and recount how they became so physically demanding by retracing their steps through their youth. This is where Moore's mind is exceptional. He traces their sexual history by including the major themes from the stories we know so well. Dorothy encounters a huge brute working on her farm that at face value seems to be intimidating and mean, but, when she tests him he shows his true colors, being nothing more than a "cowardly lion". Wendy gets involved with an evil man with a "hooked" hand, and Alice talks about seeing her life through a "looking glass". This is a picture novel, and the pictures do not fail to embrace the sexual gratuity of Moore's prose. This is not for everyone, in fact, I would not be surprised if readers thought of this as pure smut. I understand this is not Moby Dick, Hamlet, or even Ulysses, but, what Moore does is take age old stories and create from them an alternate universe that affords him the opportunity to send a message. That message: a world without sexual exploration is a world with senseless violence, hence the arrival of World War 1. Five stars simply because it takes a special kind of mind to even consider creating a piece of work such as Lost Girls."
"Graphic Novel, literally. Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy meet up in a hotel in Austria prior to WWI, have a lot of sex, and recount their experiences as children, but instead of the stories we're familiar with, we get a sexually skewed version of events.
I just don't know what to think of this. For now, my thoughts during the final volume: God, not more sex. I am so bored. OH MY GOD, DOROTHY GALE, WTF? Yes, yes, more cunnilingus, whatever. Yes, we all have strap-ons. Yes, Alice, someone's fingering you, please stop interrupting yourself to be surprised about that. Nice hot pink pirate pants, Wendy. God, this is boring. Is it over yet? Good thing I took German in college. Wait, who's this dead dude? THE END? What the hell?
The writing was kind of awful, full of egregious puns and heavily didactic in places, but I liked (most of) the art, especially the way it changed to reflect each girl's story; I absolutely loved the shadows and silhouettes in Wendy's tales.
The main concept of the book (the girls' stories rewritten as their sexual awakening) was promising, but there's a lot of chaff in here; the framing devices -- the hotel, the pornographic White Book, various people's correspondence -- are tiresome, and all the boring, repetitive sex the women have is, you guessed it, boring and repetitive. I might have liked their stories more if they weren't surrounded by so much proselytizing and random Stravinsky. (Not only did Lesbian orgies cause World War I, they were also responsible for the riot at the premiere of The Rite of Spring. Apparently.)
Two stars: The sex is only occasionally sexy and I didn't care about any of the characters. I don't know what Moore was shooting for (beyond the obvious message that pornography shouldn't be subject to moral judgment), but that probably wasn't it."
"Lost Girls is about sex -- in the big sense of the word "about."
Let's get it out of the way: Yes, it's porn. The art is beautiful, gorgeous in its own right even without the story; there's no way you could argue it's without artistic value. But it is erotic and explicit. Very, very explicit. No one under 18 should get their hands on this book.
But with the story, it becomes as meta as any Alan Moore novel ever is. It is about growing up. It's about the power that sex has -- and how it can be used for good and bad things. It's about sexual abuse, and the recovery of its survivors. It's about the function of pornography and erotica, and about your response to Lost Girls itself from the reality of your own experiences."
Lost Girls, a graphic novel by Alan Moore, is pornography. This is the key feature in analyzing this book. It cannot be understood properly if you are trying to understand it as a graphic novel, or a regular novel, or anything else besides pornography. It may look like a graphic novel or a comic book, and it does indeed take that format. But merely because it has the format of a graphic novel does not mean it should be evaluated as a graphic novel.
All of that said, Alan Moore uses the pornography in Lost Girls as a reductio ad absurdum on issues of sexuality in our culture. He takes common views on sexuality and takes them to the extreme. The parts of this work that I enjoyed the most were the ones that took place at the Hotel Himmelgarten, and not the flash back stories that put a pornographic twist on the stories of Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, and Wendy from Peter Pan. It takes place in the buildup to World War I; one of the secondary characters, Rolf, is called up into the war after the death of Archduke Fran Ferdinand.
The book chronicles the sexual evolution of these three fairy tale women, mainly through a sexual retelling of their stories. Each of the stories, however, are told with sexual violence as the primary moving force. Alice is corrupted through drugs and sex; Wendy and Dorothy both experience incest. However, when they are at the Hotel, with each other, they are in a safe place of sexual freedom, where they are free to explore their every desire.
In the end however, the women each go their own separate ways, the hotel is destroyed by soldiers, and Rolf is killed on the battlefield. The violence that each woman had experienced in their lives had come back to find them through the war. The escape from reality, the safe place from all of the violence that the women had created at the Hotel Himmelgarten is gone. This world seems like it could have been the world of Watchmen, 70 years earlier, and told from the female perspective. It is a story, told at the extremes, of three women dealing with violence in their lives."
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