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I've enjoyed listening to audio books for years and love the creative expansion Gregory Maguire afforded an old favorite - "The Wizard of OZ." This adult-version of the "wicked" witch's view of the goings on of OZ and its surrounding populations is very entertaining. The story fortunately doesn't include too much time with Dorothy and her trio, just the well known witch-melting ending (not that I'm spoiling the ending). Maguire lets us get to know the not so wicked green-skinned Elphaba; her childhood and schooldays, through her many adult challenges. Maguire set the scene nicely for his next book by introduing her son, Liir... Great book!!
The writing was good , although he used words I didn't know, He would go on and on about things that did not matter and when it got to the plot there was no suspense , and what ever was happening, the cliff hanger was only 1 sentence long , how ever a walk through the park or something trivial would go on page after page. . I read both books and hoped he would connect the stories in the first book with the second book , and although they were the same characters the flow was unnerving . He left to many loose ends.
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this is a awsomely fun and sometimes altogether frightful look at the life and times of the missunderstood, mistreated an incredibly awkward green skined wicked witch of the west, her sister (witch of the east), her father, mother, nanny and her friends including bog and a boarding school friend named sait Galenda (northern witch). this story is a biography of sorts for a fictional caracter and takes you on a jurney from her munchkinland childhood, too boarding school, to the emerald city, to the vinkus and finally to her death by the hand of the evil wizard of Oz with the help of the dim wited dorthey Gail and her lion, tin man and scarcrow friends!!! You'll soon find out that wicked is just a state of mind and evil is in the eye of the beholder. This book reminds us of the importance of never beleaving untile you've heard both sides of testory and judged for yourself!!!!Read full review
I absolutly LOVED reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire. The language he used really captivated me and I never wanted to put the book down! It gave me an entirely new perspective on the wicked witch of the west and now I have been thinking about other characters deemed to be evil and what the story really could have been. Out of the hundreds of books I've read, I will only claim to love very few, and Wicked is one of them. Now I want to read other books by Gregory Maguire to see if they are just as good. Definitly a recommended book!!!
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