The Lost World password needed Sunday, 5 July 2009
Posted by The Lost Book in Story teamwork.Tags: bookcrossing, books, story
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Hello! If you’re reading this, you must have a copy of the campaign edition of The Lost World, and you must have visited BookCrossing.com.
We need your help! We need a book recommendation for Aileen. You see, during most episodes of The Lost Book Aileen and Watson have read books and “wild released” them for anyone to find. We need to choose the last book for Aileen to read and release in the cafe in episode 6. What’s it to be?
Any link to Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, investigative journalists, stolen books, secret societies, dogs or dinosaurs would be acceptable – or anything else you can persuade us is relevant. If you come up with a good idea, the book will be used in the animation – and then released in the real world!
The Lost Book is an animated web series where you wrote the plot.
My suggestion would be Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. (Anywhere but here I’d be calling him ‘the other David Mitchell’ – here, he’s just David Mitchell.)
Anyway, it’s the kind of terribly post-modern novel that a cool and happening chick like Aileen would read. It has lots of obscure in-jokes around people’s names, just like The Lost Book. And one of the characters is a feisty lass who’s an investigative journalist!
The only book I can think of at the moment is The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly, which involves a child being in a fantasy world he has populated with stories he read (mostly fairy tales). The child is trying to get to the king and find his way home by looking in the king’s book of lost things.
Hound of the Baskervilles by Conan Doyle, close the story off with a dose of the obvious?
What about The Book Thief
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
might be suitable now the secret stuff is drawing to a close
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
if she would enjoy a bit of Irish humour with her mystery
Stuart Kelly, the literary editor of Scotland on Sunday, has written ‘The Book of Lost Books’!
http://www.booksfromscotland.com/News/Roddy-Lumsdens-Blog/22012007-Book-of-Lost-Books
These suggestions are all great. I agree with Kiwi about ending on an obvious note. Hound of the Baskervilles would be perfect… or The Case of the Missing Books. When I first heard about this project, I assumed it was a reference to Jurassic Park (to my immense shame) – so I’ll nominate “The Lost World” by Michael Crichton, purely because I want to make a nomination (got to make the most of visiting the password protected bit for the first time)!
Thanks, folks! We’ve selected a shortlist and put a poll up, so vote now.
http://thelostbook.net/2009/07/17/decisions-decisions/