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[laughingpaws]

Books Mentioned in Bad Twin

[laughingpaws]

Turn the Screw Book

[SpiralBoundBook]

Hello- impressive list- just some things:
You say Sally Handler is Shannon from the show's stepmom- her stepmom's name is Sabrina Carlyle. (Boone's mother) Does it say in the book that they are the same person?
Also, Spoiler, Season 2 Finale

[Gus Raja]

[quote="Misroi"]One other important thing to note is that Troup goes to some length talking about purgatory. Everything from Dante's Purgatorio to a long discussion about what if this world is purgatory? Not too surprising, especially since the author's name anagrams to "purgatory." Wish I could claim credit for figuring that on my own, but I found it under a book review elsewhere on the Web.


This is probably nothing, but since "Gary Troup" is an anagram for "purgatory," and since in this passage the word "purgatorio" stands out, I thought I'd try it as an anagram instead. By using the "io" instead of the "y," the result becomes "ratio group." I can't make anything of this except I thought it was interesting considering how equations are often mentioned.

[Gus Raja]

In the last two posts of this thread aside from mine, you both mention the same spoiler. But just to clarify, is the correct phrase...

[SpiralBoundBook]

Spoiler, Season 2 episode 3 (which i'm pretty sure has shown everywhere by this point...)

[Char]

Just to chip in my opinion, I don't think the book is a very strong reference to the Lost or Lost ARG at all. I mean, in the game world/show world, Bad Twin is just fiction. He uses real people, but who's to say how their real actions differ from the book?

I guess I'm a bit irked because I keep seeing things like a bio of Mittelwerk which states "He worries Arthur Widmore". We don't actually know that he does, or that Widmore even has an opinion on Mittelwerk. In the Lost world, they are just two real people that Troup wrote a story around.

[Hank Scorpio]

I think the way Hanso is coming out so strongly against the book and the show in the game leads me to believe that theyre guilty and trying to defend themselves. I mean whether or not the book and show are in game or not, It's obvious the foundation is involved in super shady business and is guilty of a lot of things.

I do know though that this game has been in the works since season one so the game was around while the book was being written, even though it hadnt started yet and it certainly couldve influenced the book.

[Char]

I hate to sound cynical, but I honestly believe that "Don't believe Bad Twin" is all advertising to sell the book. The book doesn't actually mention Hanso in anything more than a couple of namedrops.

[theShaggy]

It's advertising in the same way that the ARG is advertising, I think.

Also, while the book doesn't seem to have more than a bashing of Widmore, the interview videos (did we ever find parts 7-9?) clearly show that there is a bit more tension between Troup and the Hansoites than may be comfortable for either of them.

Having read the book, I didn't see much, but maybe there's more in it that will be illuminated as that particular subplot is developped. Even though Troup is dead.

[Gus Raja]

[Yugge]

I read somewhere that gary troup was the man who got sucked into the engine in ep 1.

[catherwood]

[danteIL]

[matt_the_pale]

Since "Lost," in the ARG, is a fictional representation of what happened to the survivors of Flight 815, Gary Troup may very well still be alive with other survivors from Flight 815. Or they could all be dead. Who knows for sure? The only places we should trust the show are where it overlaps with the ARG: