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BAD TWIN!! Learn Who Really Wrote That LOST Tie-In Novel!!

I am – Hercules!!



It's not Stephen King and it's not Jerry Seinfeld.

Variety’s Steven Zeitchik reports Monday morning that the “Lost” tie-in novel, Gary Troup’s “Bad Twin” was pseudonymously written by noted ghostwriter Laurence Shames.

“Lost’s” creators are apparently not completely pleased with Shames’ effort. An excerpt from the Variety piece:

Show staffers also were frustrated that the book referenced copyrighted elements for which the publisher had not sought clearances, saying it would make it difficult to use those elements on-air.

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First!!??
by Draculynx
Jun 19th, 2006
12:37:36 AM
yup, I am
by Draculynx
Jun 19th, 2006
12:38:31 AM
and that's bad why?
by v1cious
Jun 19th, 2006
12:39:01 AM
Uhhh....Ok?
by clockpolitiks
Jun 19th, 2006
12:47:18 AM
Purgatory eh? I KNEW IT!!!
by Regicidal_Maniac
Jun 19th, 2006
12:51:12 AM
I thought...
by VanLingoMungo
Jun 19th, 2006
12:53:25 AM
So what's the anagram?
by BitterMan23
Jun 19th, 2006
01:39:33 AM

by meccabilly
Jun 19th, 2006
01:46:12 AM
Bad Twin Peaks
by Flim Springfield
Jun 19th, 2006
01:49:23 AM
What's really happening in Lost.
by Bob of the Shire
Jun 19th, 2006
02:07:36 AM
Lost can suck my throbbing, red balls.
by Angry Mean Panda
Jun 19th, 2006
02:42:36 AM
The correlation with the show is...
by DocBosch
Jun 19th, 2006
04:15:23 AM
of course they know
by marcus torrance
Jun 19th, 2006
04:15:41 AM
The Book?
by NudeandAroused
Jun 19th, 2006
04:32:25 AM
marcus torrance's post = :)
by Shermdawg
Jun 19th, 2006
04:52:24 AM
BitterMan23
by Randall Flagg
Jun 19th, 2006
04:55:11 AM
Marcus you speak the truth
by Pdid
Jun 19th, 2006
05:42:26 AM
More Propoganda!!!!
by zillabeast
Jun 19th, 2006
06:36:43 AM
Darn those writers!
by jccalhoun
Jun 19th, 2006
08:14:39 AM
Lost or no lost.
by Wolfman57
Jun 19th, 2006
08:25:34 AM
BS. You know they had a final say over what went in
by jimmy_009
Jun 19th, 2006
11:21:40 AM
difficult to use in the show???
by quadrupletree
Jun 19th, 2006
11:26:26 AM
24...
by seekshelter
Jun 19th, 2006
11:53:02 AM
If it's some kind of purgatory
by hktelemacher
Jun 19th, 2006
12:30:06 PM
Hey, Regicidal_Maniac, your link is dead...
by googamooga
Jun 19th, 2006
02:52:55 PM
The show isn't purgatory, they've said that many times.
by minderbinder
Jun 19th, 2006
03:37:33 PM
i agree,minderbinder
by johnnylong
Jun 19th, 2006
03:42:50 PM
Rmember when Twin Peaks did the same shit?
by ComputerGuy68
Jun 19th, 2006
03:52:18 PM
well i read it...
by soup74
Jun 19th, 2006
04:27:24 PM
Valenzetti Equation
by EyeofPolyphemus
Jun 19th, 2006
04:44:15 PM
What's "Lost"?
by ZeroCorpse
Jun 19th, 2006
05:02:01 PM
Laura's Diary was and remains great....
by DanielKurland
Jun 19th, 2006
05:14:12 PM
hktelemacher
by bah
Jun 19th, 2006
07:05:26 PM
Marcus - you're right
by BitterMan23
Jun 19th, 2006
07:57:57 PM
24 v Lost
by NudeandAroused
Jun 19th, 2006
08:41:03 PM
It's funny, Marcus is getting praised here, but...
by Shermdawg
Jun 19th, 2006
09:05:18 PM
Well Ashok0, I do know Jack...
by Shermdawg
Jun 19th, 2006
10:14:50 PM
Before someone turns that into a knock at Lost...
by Shermdawg
Jun 19th, 2006
10:17:55 PM
I was a huge fan of Lost UNTIL
by VanLingoMungo
Jun 20th, 2006
12:41:33 AM

by crayotic
Jun 20th, 2006
12:45:39 AM
24-Lost comparison is irrelevant
by marcus torrance
Jun 20th, 2006
04:24:10 AM
Speaking of 24 and french bastards,
by Shermdawg
Jun 20th, 2006
05:32:37 AM
All purgatory and no reality makes Jack a mad fan.
by JohnGalt06
Jun 20th, 2006
10:34:52 AM
Oh snaps!
by Ribbons
Jun 21st, 2006
03:10:11 PM

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