I want Ozma to fail. For completely different reasons, of course, than the Nomes, the Whimsies, the Growleywogs, and the Phanfasms, but the end result is about the same.The Oz books start to get better with 'The Emerald City', but my crabby grown-uptitude about continuity and plot and something meat...
Absolute treacle.I know this is an Edwardian child's book. So I shouldn't be so outraged to discover a book about a journey begun by blithely walking away from one's house with a shaggy man with kind eyes fondling, he assures you, the love magnet in his pocket. This journey is then revealed to have ...
And here we have the evidence that L. Frank Baum finally let the little bastards get to him. He would give them exactly what they wanted. What a shame they didn't notice he was mocking them. I can just see him counting his money through the tears.'Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz' finds Dorothy falling ...
The Patchwork Girl of Oz is not about the Patchwork Girl of Oz, but rather is the story of a little munchkin boy and his motley assortment of followers journeying across the land of Oz in search of items that will create a magic capable of saving the boy's beloved uncle. However, one of those motley...
After finishing 'Out of Oz', I had to read more of the original Oz books. I've heard widely varying reports about the quality of them, but I figured I'd give 'Ozma' a go. And it's a lot of fun, weird, and dark. The Nome King is diabolical, lots of gleeful rubbing of hands and entrapment while he lur...
Ah yes, the Nome King gets angry and tries to invade OZ (with three of his most dangerous buddies), but all is saved by dues ex machina. This is the closest OZ ever came to any real danger and also one of the better plotlines Baum ever had. Interspersed with that plot is the one where Dorothy and h...
Pleasant enough. I still love Polychrome, though she seems less substantial then she did before. The Shaggy Man creeps me out a little; I never really liked him all that much as I thought the Love Magnet was cheating just a little. But now, he strikes me as a little creepy. That said, one of the...
Oddly enough, contains very little Ozma and is mostly about Dorothy’s adventures in the Land of Ev. Still, this is one of my favorites, mostly because of clever Billina. She’s opinionated and smart and she doesn’t take any sort of nonsense from anyone. Again with the mistaken identity, Billina wa...
Years ago I read the L. Frank Baum Oz books. I jumped around a lot, reading the initial 10, and a few of the Ruth Plumly Thompson ones as well. I somehow never got around to reading the last three of Baum's, a mistake I am hereby rectifying. The 12th book in the series, The Tin Woodman of Oz, is a g...
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