Ooft, uni's in the way of this one. I'm only on pg 208, I hate to say. Anyways...
Yup, Stranger In A Strange Land is harder to connect to Lost from what I've read so far, but it's definitely about one panicked woman's deep immersion into a mysterious person's culture. Maybe the 815 survivors are like that, seeing how they have come from a traumatic experience and then thrown headfirst into this confusing new world, one with rules they don't quite grasp yet share a respect for? Craphole Island is their Valentine Smith; their Mars. So yeah, the title works as being literal as well.
And there's a lot of philosophical talk that works far better here than in the sometimes-laboured sociological claptrap that King shoe-horned into The Stand. I'd look on Lostpedia for more info, but dammit, I don't want anything spoiled!
*wonders whether or not to put studying aside to just read*
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Yup, Stranger In A Strange Land is harder to connect to Lost from what I've read so far, but it's definitely about one panicked woman's deep immersion into a mysterious person's culture. Maybe the 815 survivors are like that, seeing how they have come from a traumatic experience and then thrown headfirst into this confusing new world, one with rules they don't quite grasp yet share a respect for? Craphole Island is their Valentine Smith; their Mars. So yeah, the title works as being literal as well.
And there's a lot of philosophical talk that works far better here than in the sometimes-laboured sociological claptrap that King shoe-horned into The Stand. I'd look on Lostpedia for more info, but dammit, I don't want anything spoiled!
*wonders whether or not to put studying aside to just read*
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