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'Bad Twin' Finds Some 'Lost' Fans, But Not All

By Kimberly Maul
Publication: Book Standard
Date: Wednesday, May 10 2006
In a unique tie-in to ABC's popular series Lost, Hyperion last week released the novel Bad Twin, by Gary Troup, a character on the show who disappeared on

Oceanic Flight 815. The publisher says Troup had previously submitted the book, a mystery about private investigator Paul Artisan and a set of separated twins.

While Lost fans flock to websites and message boards to discuss anything and everything that explains what the heck is happening on the mystery island, only 5,000 copies of Bad Twin were sold in its debut week, according to Nielsen BookScan. This puts Bad Twin at No. 98 on the Overall Chart.

Previous books mentioned on Lost include The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien; Watership Down, by Richard Adams; and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume. Though Troup is nowhere to be found on the Lost island, a copy of the manuscript has made an appearancek, in the hands of characters Hugo "Hurley" Reyes and James "Sawyer" Ford.

While the plot of Bad Twin doesn't resemble the island survival mystery, common themes in the book and show include good-versus-evil, redemption and purgatory. In one more connection, the name Gary Troup is an anagram for purgatory, which is one of many theories to explain the mysteries of the Lost island.

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