All we needed was an appearance from the Starship Enterprise as commanded by Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt from the Mission: Impossible movies and we'd practically have a full set.ĭespite that, though, S. There are oblique references to almost all of Abrams' past projects throughout the book: the romance tales of Felicity the constantly-revised concepts of identity in Alias the supernatural existentialism of Lost the genre pastiche of Super 8 the found object storytelling of Cloverfield. is, as the slipcover helpfully describes, a "love letter to the written word" (which it is, but we'll get to that later), it's also very much a love letter to Abrams' career to date. At times, it feels as if reading the book is like having the entirety of Lost (the television series and the fandom alike) downloaded into your head simultaneously.Īs much S. Abrams and Doug Dorst, is pretty much written for you.
Let's get the tl dr version out of the way first: If you were a fan of Lost - and especially the speculation and theorizing that surrounded the show itself - then S., the novel/meta-narrative by J.J.
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