This book is such a fabulous new approach to The Wizard of Oz (which I also loved). A must read for those intrested in Magic, action, romance, friendship and drama.
Wicked is sure to send your imagination soaring! Great Book!
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This book is such a fabulous new approach to The Wizard of Oz (which I also loved). A must read for those intrested in Magic, action, romance, friendship and drama.
Wicked is sure to send your imagination soaring! Great Book!
If you pick up this book expecting the story of ‘Wicked’ the musical, you are in for a big surprise. In my opinion, the storyline of this book surpasses that of the musical in almost every way (and that is coming from a huge Wicked fan). I wouldn't, however, read this to your children as it is not really as nice and fluffy as the musical. This book is a must read, I couldn't put it down once I started and it now belongs on my favourite books shelf.
This is an amazing world, lyrical and fascinating. You want to read this, you want to know why water hurts, why Galinda changes her name, and who will help the Animals-! But this book!
Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin -- no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or to overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. But Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters the university in Shiz, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz' most promising young citizens.
Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere. Animals -- those creatures with voices, souls and minds -- are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals -- even it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Even wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.
In Wicked, Gregory Maguire has taken the largely unknown world of Oz and populated it with the power of his own imagination. Fast-paced, fantastically real and supremely entertaining, this is a novel of vision and re-vision. Oz never will be the same again."A magnificent work, a genuine tour de force." -- Lloyd Alexander, author of the Chronicles of Prydain
"Children - children of all ages, as Maguire reminds us in this splendid novel - need witches. Gregory Maguire has taken this figure of childhood fantasy and given her a sensual and powerful nature that will stir adult hearts with fear and longing all over again. It's a brilliant trick - and a remarkable treat." -- The Times-Picayune
"It's a staggering feat of wordcraft, made no less so by the fact that its boundaries were set decades ago by somebody else. Maguire's larger triumph here is twofold: First, in Elphaba, he has created (re-created? renovated?) one of the great heroines in fantasy literature: a fiery, passionate, unforgettable and ultimately tragic figure. Second, Wicked is the best fantasy novel of ideas I've read since Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast or Frank Herbert's Dune. Would that all books with this much innate consumer appeal were also this good. And vice versa." -- Los Angeles Times
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