The Lost Boys is a triumph in setting. The most frequent complaint I found about this book before reading it myself was how long it takes to get to the plot (the plot, per se, occurs on page 374 and runs for about 15 pages before the book ends.) People who say such things are missing Card's point. The Lost Boys is not about plot -- it is about how the most mundane things can conspire to drive us down -- how teachers can be too cynical to love children, how churchgoers can be so self-absorbed that they wrap God around themselves and how businesses can be so obsessed with the bottom line that they are torturing their employees. It is about how witty Step and kind DeAnne get disillusioned and how hard they have to work to pull themselves back up. And ultimately, Lost Boys is Card's testament to Mormonism -- how faith in the unseen can be the most important thing of all. ( )

El programador de juegos de ordenador Step Fletcher se muda, junto con su familia, a Steuben, un pueblecito de Carolina del Norte (EEUU). La familia, de religión mormona, deberá superar los problemas de la vida cotidiana, agravados por la necesidad de integrarse en el nuevo trabajo, en la nueva escuela y en la nueva comunidad. Pero la preocupación de los Fletcher por sus hijos se convertirá en espanto y terror al saber que varios niños han desaparecido de Steuben y que, ¡terrible descubrimiento!, esos "niños perdidos" tienen especial relación con su hijo mayor Stevie.

I don't really know how to rate this. It's extremely slow, to the point that the back of the book tells you plot points that aren't revealed until 4/5 of the way in. There's too much family life description and narrative. But the last forty pages or so are so brilliantly written that it ends on a five star note. I'm not sure I could read this again, though, knowing the end. It's just way too disturbing once you know the clues ( )

Can't remember much now, but it was not a bad story. ( )

My second listen through "Lost Boys" had me crying as much as the first. The dynamics between the parents were witty and warm, and the kids were realistic. I have enjoyed Mr. Card's portrayal of church-life as well. Read carefully to see where the end leads, and you still will be surprised! ( )