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| Lost Girls | 
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| Authors: Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Category: Book
List Price: $75.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 22704
Media: Hardcover Comic
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.2
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 9.2 x 2.7
ISBN: 1891830740
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781891830747
ASIN: 1891830740
Publication Date: September 13, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 High expectation, sufficient (re-read 6/10) January 9, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
In all honesty, I was very excited about this book, but it didn't wow me. It reminded me of the city of New Orleans. The first few sets of [boo bs] are amazing, but by the end of the night, it is nothing new. Lost Girls is like that. First issue really gets going, but then the sex becomes almost commonplace and you don't even notice it anymore. Lots of clever literary easter eggs for those that like to search. Also plenty of illustrations for the people who want to pleasure themselves to comics. Otherwise, very risque, very clever, didn't rock my world.
Re-readability: 6/10
*I always put re-readability in my reviews for people who like to keep their TPB to re-read*
 Not bad, but he's written better January 9, 2007
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
The presentation of this kind of story was very appropriate, given the subject matter- sort of a bedtime stories little Golden Book for adults. The outside of the cover doesn't give away the graphic contents inside, which will mean it would be okay for you to display on the top shelf if you have kids, or any shelf if you live in Europe.
The story itself was sort of what would happen if someone ran a narrative current through the Kama Sutra, and combined it with something familiar from childhood. Not Alan Moore's best work, (Watchmen was) but a very scandalously informative read which gives you scenes that are unforgetable, touching, and erotic at the same time. Not sure what the creators of these characters would think, but honestly, who cares?
 Not what I hoped March 6, 2007
7 out of 29 found this review helpful
I thought it was boring and a bit pointless. The illustrations were childish but the story line was interesting if a little disjointed. I wouldn't recommend these books unless you're somewhat innocent and looking for a thrill.
Enjoyable erotica August 31, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
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
 Wonderfully Filthy January 18, 2007
6 out of 16 found this review helpful
A charming and unabashedly pornographic recasting of three beloved childhood stories as metaphors for three young girls' sexual awakenings done as stories told when the protagonists meet in a delightfully raunchy hotel on the eve of the Great War. The art is beautiful, the stories engaging, and the plot masterfully contrived.
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