There wasn't a whole lot to say about this one, but spoilers nontheless.

(older lost posts)

Season 2, Episode 13 - "The Long con"

First of all, we've got that book we say Locke looking through - "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", Wikipedia has the following to say about the plot:

"'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' is the story of a man who is sentenced to death by hanging at the Owl Creek Bridge of the title.
When he is hanged the rope breaks and the main character falls into the water, from which he begins a journey back to his home. During his journey, he starts to feel some strange physiological events that ultimately end with a searing pain in his neck. It turns out that the man never escaped; he imagined the entire thing during the time between being pushed off the bridge and the noose finally breaking his neck."

Owl creek bridge

Nothing too obvious, I guess, last time we saw a book from the shelf in the hatch, it was "Turn of the screw", turned (har, har) out it was a red herring, as well.

Bad Twin

The manuscript Hurley was reading was Bad Twin by Gary Troup, a fictional writer. It turns out it's a real book written by the Lost writers, probably to see what kind of crap we'll buy from them.

Bad Twin by Gray Troup