Humor me LOST people....BTW, I have just finished season one on DVD. I am impressed! I wonder, if there are any Stephen King fans, has anyone of yet noticed the similarities in the Dark Tower Series and Lost? Mostly in Stephen King's 1st 4 books of the series? Maybe I'm too late to jump on the Lost following, but I couldn't get into it until the DVD came out and my boyfriend made me watch. The show seems so familiar.
PLEASE someone who has read The Gunslinger, Drawing of the 3, or Wastelands tell me if I am right. This is to see if my theory about the Island is going to follow the stories so much like the books. My boyfriend thinks my books are too silly, yet the show he's been gabbing about since it came out LOST is like the books I've tried to get him to read.
Island wants the kid - The tower wanted Jake
Hurleys numbers - The number 19
Charlie's addiction - Eddie's addiction
Crazy French Lady - Suzanna Dean
The hatch - the doors on the beach or the rose in NY city?
Locke's quest for the hatch - Roland's 4 the tower
Is the jungle monster going to turn out to be like Shardik the bear?
Oh so weird is this show LOST. But I am totally addicted and it is driving me NUTS!

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Get down with your LOST selves

I've noticed some similarities, but even with all the twists in LOST, its level of detail doesn't come anywhere near that of King's DT and related books. This is to be expected since LOST is written in/for a different medium than DT. I think the similarities may either be coincidental or one of the writers is a King fan, but I'd be surprised if the story parallels DT throughout since I would think there would be real copyright issues

An unrelated observation: I notice King's books, especially DT, seem to have a large following among American Southerners. Another msg. board that I visit regularly has one poster using the nickname "Gunslinger" and an avatar of Roland. He's from Arkansas. Since King's a New Englander and focuses more on setting books in that area, I've puzzled over why his stuff has such a following down here. Ever thought about that?

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Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

--Lines 2-6, "The Second Coming" by Wm. Butler Yeats