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Bad Twin (Hyperion) |
Author: Gary Troup
Published: 2006-05-02 |
List price: $21.95
Our price: $4.41
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As of: November 20th, 2008 03:10:15 AM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 What does this have to do with LOST?
I am a huge fan of LOST and I know the place of the Gary Troup manuscript in the series and his relationship with Cindy and all....but this is just a bad book about a bad twin and if it has much meaningful to do with LOST or even remotely with the themes of LOST then it escapes me. Readers would do better to flip through this book before buying it and write down all the other books mentioned in it and go read those instead of this one. Sawyer would most definitely not like this book and I'm sure could find a familiar alternate (twin) use of it, especially while stranded on an island.
 Bad Twin
***spoilers*below***
Alright, so it starts off interestingly enough, albeit kind of slowly. Gets better, mystery, mystery, travel, whoo-hoo. I was highly intrigued by the idea that Zander was the good twin and Cliff the bad one. I really thought that would play out more than it did. But then again, I thought lots of things would play out more than they did, for example, Sky. Oh well. Moving beyond that, you have the detective story. I think that was the biggest mistake the writer could make. You don't say, "oh, here's the best mystery book plotline EVER" and then use it yourself. That hurts you, it really does. Not only are you saying that your story has the best plotline, you're also being idiotically predictable. Lots of people die, it's messed up, Manny tosses around some great quotes [loved him!], and we finally find Zander. Back home, Cliff's been killed, so everyone rushes back for the most rushed, convoluted, and random solution ever, although I did love the reunion between father and son.
The plot then, pretty much was horrible. I have to give some credit to the writing though, which I thought in many places was fabulous. I just wish it had more tie-ins with the show and wasn't quite as horribly rushed. [nice cameos by Mittlewerk and Alvar, though!]
Don't bother
Although competently written, this book is not a very good stand-alone, nor does it offer any clue or value for the fans of LOST.
 Nice plot - abrupt ending
Bad Twin is a well written beach-read type novel. The author does a nice job of keeping it a page turner, as there were many chapter where I just couldnt seem to put it down. However, I was less than pleased with the way it ended. The resolving of the plot happened way too quickly in the last 4 pages of the book and just didnt seem to flow with the tempo of the rest of the story. Not bad though overall - some interesting LOST references too.
An Interesting Mystery Based Only on Its Own Merits
As long as you don't go into reading BAD TWIN thinking you're going to solve the mysteries of the hit television show Lost, then you should be okay. BAD TWIN, on its own, is an intriguing mystery featuring twin brothers--one a bigwig in the family business, the other a ne're-do-well who has gone missing.
Oh, sure, there are a few references in the actual storyline to make you go "hmmm"--the philosopher John Locke, a trip to Australia aboard an Oceanic flight, the totally hyped numbers showing up as the twin's birthday, and the family name of Widmore. But besides those few basic tidbits, this book won't tell you squat. It really has nothing to do with Lost.
On its own merits, though, it's an engaging mystery that I read in one day, and if Gary Troup was an actual person (which he isn't), and had actually written anything else besides BAD TWIN (which he hasn't), I wouldn't hesitate to read it.
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