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: Disappointment
Summary: 3 Stars
I was truly disappointed in the writing - and the story lines. I thought they were hard to follow in some cases - and often did not blend with the illustrations. Far from an erotic fairytale of any sort.
The three large books were nicely bound with some lovely illustrations and large print. But they weren't moving or enjoyable enough to want to share with friends.
Book Review: Dream and Lust
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally the complete work of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie. Between dream and lust, the erotic adventures of three girls of our imaginary: Alice, Dorothy and Wendy.
A luxury edition that exalt Melinda Gebbie's superb drawing .
Book Review: Enjoyable erotica
Summary: 4 Stars
OK, some will balk at the premise. We all know Dodgson's Alice, Baum's Dorothy, and Barrie's Wendy as little girls, in the familiar fictions built around them. This takes the fiction a step beyond, imagining the girls as grown women, thrown together in an isolated resort on the eve of the first world war. Alice, the grande dame, stands aloof from political unpleasantness. Wendy is wed to an industrialist more interested in armored boat hulls than in breakfast (or in her). Dorothy appears as a plain old farm girl, who can't imagine that grand duke Ferdinand might affect her little life. Geographically isolated at this odd resort and culturally isolated by their individual circumstance, they break their personal isolation in each others' company.
They succeed, and break each others' inhibitions as well. With Moore's script and Gebbie's delicate colors, we follow a delightful debauch. Alice takes the two younger ladies under her opium-scented wing, for languidly choreographed affections of the sapphic kind. Dorothy brings her farm-girl awareness of livestock breeding to her human relations, male and female. Wendy, the ignored housewife, blossoms under any attention at all. Other characters round out the goings-on with straight, gay, and solo loving. The happy and consensual tone could appeal to readers who've been turned off by harsher kinds of erotica, and Gebbie's delicate artwork treats it all with lucious respect.
Make no mistake, this is smut. Decide whether that's what you want. It's good smut, though, of a female-friendly kind - the kind that also appeals to men tired of all that negative imagery. If you often find your genitals requesting the company and comfort of your hands, this could be a story for them to read to each other.
-- wiredweird
Book Review: Erotic literature - not gratutitous pornography
Summary: 5 Stars
On a pure aesthetic level, you will not find better packaging and presentation of the graphic medium than lost girls. Three beautiful books each with ten 8 page chapters all wonderfully illustrated. The simplicity of the artwork mirrors the "simplicity" of one of the most defining aspects of our person - our sexuality.
In denying our sexuality, we become lost. The three protaganists are "lost" when they come together. A new take on the old theme of crone, mother and maid ensures that the re-awakening of the sexuality of Alice, Wendy and Dorothy leave the three as "found".
There will be parts of this book that will offend and should offend. But the mature mind knows where fantasy ends and reality begins.
Book Review: Find the lost girls
Summary: 4 Stars
A very adult oriented title, filled with hand-drawn erotica. Not a coffee table book that should be left lying around but if you enjoy erotic tales with a twist, these books will fill that niche.