Hooray!

SQUEEEE! I love Watership Down. It's one of my favorite books from childhood.

not a 'lost' fan but love 'watership down'. the notion of a screaming rabbit is terrifying.

Liz, I was terrified by the animated Watership Down as a kid, too!! The blood sweeping the screen, the round rabbit eyes, staring in terror... It freaked me out so bad, I have no idea why my parents let me watch it. Over and over and over.

I remember really liking that Art Garfunkel song in the movie. I wonder if I would still like it if I heard it today.

I love Lost, Liz, and Jen. Thanks for the great book club idea, I look forward to the chats!!

OK, so thinking of Fiver still kind of freaks me out. so cold... so very cold.

However, I nominate Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz for a Lost reading.

I hope we'll be reading some Carrie. Just re-read that not too long ago & I'd forgotten how much I really enjoyed it even though it wasn't much like the movie.

Enjoyed the movie though speaking of being scarred for life by an image......**shudders @ the memory of the end of Carrie**

I've never read Watership Down & vaguely recall the movie. When I worked @ the local vid store eons ago, I used to warn parents about it lest their kiddies be completely damaged.

I love Lost. I love Watership Down. I love Liz. But there are some things up with which I will not put, and that's a reading assinment from my favorite brainless timewaster Web site!
If the Fug girls start plugging Madame Bovary, I'm gonna cry.

Ooh, one of my favorite books when I was little. An adult re-read will be interesting! I picked it up because I loved "The Velveteen Rabbit," and didnt quite realize what I was getting myself into...

watership down, are you sure? i only remember the movie (another traumatized child)...anyone mentions it and all i can think of is the black bunny of death.

Watership Down is an Easter egg in Donnie Darko!!!!!

Jen, you're the DVD-ologist (if I recall correctly from some previous work you did. perhaps at another paper...?): how to be accessing, please?

Plus, Watership Down is an interesting plot point early on in The Stand, where Stu Redman thinks about the phrase "going tharn" and how not to have that happen to him when the government killer finally comes for him.

Never heard of it before now but I haven't done much reading all summer, so sure I'm game.

Just have to chime in and say that this is one of my favorite books of all time, and I LOVED the movie as a little kid. We had it on VHS and I ruined the tape because I watched it so many times. Sorry to hear it scared so many...

Other Liz -- Participation in the book club is not compulsory. As you were.

I too was traumatized by this movie as a child - even as my cousin and I watched it over and over and over again. Our favorite was was when the rabbits call cars ru-do-dos. I did read the book when I was in HS and enojed it. I'm game for a reread.

This might not be for everyone, but how about reading the works of philosophers who share the characters' names, or classical literature suggested by the characters'names:
Locke
Rousseau
Tom Sawyer
Romeo and Juliet
Lord of the Flies (Jack)

A great idea! Since the end of the season I have been conducting my own one-man Lost book club. There is a rich mine of literary references on the show, which only deepen the experience of its' many textures and layers. I have started with Living Lost by J. Wood - which I highly recommend.
The next book is so odd and wonderful that I think it just has to be the next book in this club. 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O'Brien is like no other book that I have ever read. Much as Lost is unlike all other TV shows. I have been searching for people to talk with and/or literary criticism on this book, but both are hard to find. Please, please, please, pick this book for the next month.

Another plea for anyone who knows how to access the easter egg of "Watership Down" on the director's cut of "Donnie Darko" - anyone, help? please?

Kehaar: You stupid bunnies!

I used the term Easter egg a bit broadly. The movie actually is playing on the television in the background during one of the scenes added back into the director's cut. The scene was trimmed from the "original" version of "Darko." So if you scan through the scenes of the director's cut, you should see it.

My mother took me to see Watership Down when I was like 9. She thought it was a cute story about bunnies. Who knew bunnies were so brutal? Seriously, that sucker should have come with a very prominent warning.

Excellent idea! Count me in. This will give me a good excuse to read "Watership Down" (I had been planning to anyway due to "Lost") and will fill the void of my Wednesday nights and of my Thursday afternoons. Seriously, I've missed reading the discusions as much as the show. You know what would make this complete is if you two could coax J. Wood to sit in on a few discussions. And if you pick "Our Mutual Friend" as a month's selection I'll have some time off since I just reread that a last month.

Yay! Count me in!

I *love* Lost, and I *love* Donnie Darko. I'm ashamed to admit this, but I've never read Watership Down, although it's been on my to-read list for quite some time. Now sounds like the perfect time to pick it up.

I live in Hong Kong, and we're still working our way through Season 3 of Lost. (Actually, "working" isn't really the right word, is it? -- it's a joy!) The last episode I saw was the one where Hurley found the Dharma combi van and drove it down the hill with Charlie.

I'll have to figure out how I'm going to deal with spoilers when we're discussing the book. Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to tonight's session. (We get two back-to-back episodes every Thursday night, from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. -- way past my bedtime, but it's worth it.)

Dre, we're hoping J. Wood will be sitting in on the discussions starting in September. Also, we hope to have a few other surprise guests joining the discussions, but are still working on that (no, no castmembers. Sorry!)

Damn, am I (and my childhood best friend) the only people who liked the animated Watership Down as a kid? The scene with Holly as he relives the attack on the warren is great, and Woundwort is perfectly done. He's so overwhelming, just like how I imagined him from the book.

Dreamer - The abc.com website has most of the recent Season 3 episodes of Lost and you can download all of them from iTunes... at least you can in the US and Canada, I have no idea if there are restrictions on those sites, etc in other countries, but it's worth a try because the spoilers are just too good for you not to see them in the episodes first!!

I too was terrorized by the movie as a kid - I remember watching it on t.v. one spring because my mother thought it would be a happy Easter Bunny flick. She was doing laundry or something in the next room when my brother and I started shrieking!

On the upside, I did read it again in college, and didn't find it nearly so traumatizing - in fact, it was pretty good!

Just found out about this love the idea of the Lost book club. What's the next book?

The highest paid guy on Lost has to be the Continuity Guy/Gal. IN order to keep all of the flashbacks , references, books, etc. in order. With this complex of a plot; anybody would mess up-that's why some actors are in scenes where they are not supposed to be and some dialogue is mis-matched in scenes also! Just like a movie about the 1890's in which a character spends some 2003 currency!! The best part is, if the COntinuity person messes up; then the anomaly can always be explained as a Flashback/Flashforward/Time Travel/John Malkovich/ Dream/ Daydream problem. The producers of Lost will issue a 12 DVD collection after the end of the series in which all scenes and references are played out in the correct order for $500.

Love the blog -- kudos to the Washington Post for doing this. I hope you all will check out my Lost blog and let me know what you think:

http://eyemsick.blogspot.com/

BTW, I'd say Watership Down takes on a whole new significance in light of the recent Orchid Orientation at Comic Con.

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