Lost Girls, Vols. 1-3 by Alan Moore Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Lost Girls, Vols. 1-3
Book Review: A good script, but oh, the art...
Summary: 2 Stars
After it got tied up in a disagreement with Great Ormond Street Hospital who own the rights to Peter Pan I was forced to buy this from the US and get it shipped over to the UK, and thank God the pounds to dollar exchange rate is so strongly in my favour at the moment as otherwise I would have felt very disappointed by the amount I paid for the finished item.
The story, that the tales of 'Peter Pan', 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were really about the sexual awakenings of the main female characters in each, is an interesting prospect but is chopped into tiny chapters of five or six pages which means things take a while to get going. But while Alan Moore's script is average amongst his impressive body of work the artwork by his partner, Melinda Gebbie, is disappointing and weak. It's extremely flat and rarely gives the readerany sense of a depth to the scenes. With one exception all the characters look like they are cut from one basic template for each sex, then given different hair or clothing, Alice doesn't often look much older than Dorothy, despite a good thirty years difference in age, at least.
Maybe both things are actually a clever comment on the restrictive nature of character within pornography but in the end it stopped me from enjoying this story as much as I might.
If you really feel you want to get this I'd recommend keeping control of yourself until they release a cheaper paperback edition, as I suppose they will do at some point. As it is now it's far too much for far too little.
Book Review: A solid piece of erotic fiction
Summary: 5 Stars
While the art style may not appeal to everyone, "Lost Girls" is certainly worth a look if you like erotic fiction with a little more substance. The books provide an amusing interpretation of the "real" events behind "Alice in Wonderland", "Peter Pan" and "The Wizard of Oz". While the first two books do not appear to be particularily thought-provoking at first, they set the stage for some potent character development in the third book, when the formerly frivolous stories are cast in a harsh, new light.
Of note is that while events take on a darker tone in the third book, "Lost Girls" does not contain any particularily violent scenes. Unlike in most adult media, the focus of these three books is not the gratuitous depiction of extreme sexual acts, but raising questions and telling a solid story with believable characters. Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie have done a great job, showing that pornography doesn't necessarily belong in the gutter.
All things said, "Lost Girls" is a charming, bittersweet tale about saying goodbye to your childhood, leaving your make-believe world and growing up, and well worth the price.
Book Review: Absolutely brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
A must-read for anyone who can handle it -- this is not "erotica," this is porn. The stories and illustrations are EXTREMELY graphic. Some of them are unbelievably hot, some are unbelievably disturbing, many are both. Not all the sex in this book is fun.
It's also a brilliant piece of literature. What Moore did previously with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he does again here, on a grander and more ambitious scale. He deconstructs these tales with a ruthlessness that is both horrifying and inspired.
Book Review: Alan Moore Quality
Summary: 5 Stars
These books are a fantastic hardback large format reprint of Alan Moore's erotic story Lost Girls. It's typical Moore quality writing with fantastic artwork. A must PURCHASE!!!!Book Review: Amazing work of literature
Summary: 5 Stars
Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's recent work, Lost Girls, is a literary achievement of astonishing scope and daring. Set on the eve of the first World War, the story takes three well-known literary characters (Alice, Wendy and Dorothy) and recasts their famous adventures in fantasyland as metaphorical tales of their sexual awakenings and subsequent exploits. The story elements we know from the children's books appear here, in more mundane settings and guises, yet as fantastical as fairy dust or topsy-turvy magic lands. This is fantasy for adults, and for those who care to find it, there is as much magic and self-discovery in it as in any fantasy written for children.
Moore's talents for allusion and layered meaning are in as full use here as in any of his other works, and his writing pairs beautifully with Gebbie's versatile illustrations. As Dorothy, Wendy and Alice tell their stories, the text and illustrations refer implicitly and explicitly to the children's books we know, and give new shades of meaning to the youthful dreams they describe. As each character tells her tale, the page layout and drawing style reflect her individual experiences and points of view. Elsewhere in the books, similar changes in format bring out subtext and emphasize the action on the page. At the same time, Moore's text ties the major focus of the narrative together with the political and social atmosphere of the time to create a work whose scope reaches far beyond the personal history of the titular characters.
There is much in Lost Girls to titillate, discomfit or disgust its readers: perhaps all three simultaneously. It has been the cause of some controversy, and with reason; there are few sexual taboos left unexplored within its pages. It is an unashamed work of pornography - and an unashamed work of art. In unifying the two, Moore and Gebbie have created a story that challenges our assumptions and beliefs not only about sexuality but also about the nature of human innocence - and the nature of human perversion.