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by Gregory Maguire, John McDonough

Jennavier rated it

12 years ago

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Very well done but I was left with the general feeling of meh. Not really worth it.

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Reading with AngelaRenea rated it

12 years ago

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This book took me forever to get through and I was very disappointed. I saw the Broadway musical and I loved it so when I heard it was a book I had to check it out. It was not at all what I expected in many different ways. When the book started it was just a lot more blunt about life, which is fine,...

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travelin rated it

12 years ago

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The makings of a brilliant Hollywood pitch, the idea doesn't expand into anything better than a 2-minute idea. So why isn't it a Hollywood movie yet?

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In the Stacks rated it

12 years ago

text Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Musical Tie-in Edition)

My full review can be found over at SFF Book Review. As someone who came to the book only having heard the musical CD (yeah, i actually still bought that one on CD), I was positively surprised at the adult tone that Maguire has. This is not a children's book and it has little in common with the co...

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Rabbit Reads rated it

12 years ago

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This book was perfect IMHO. I loved it. This book was brilliant and witty with plenty of food for thought.

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Ironic Contradictions rated it

12 years ago

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I must state that there appears to be a particular type of novel which does not draw my fancy. Wicked happens to be that type of novel. That said I was expecting more from what I did read.With such a novel proclaimed as an imaginative retelling of [b:The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|236093|The Wonderful W...

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The Welsh Bookworm rated it

12 years ago

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I started this book in 2009 when our Daytimers bookclub read it, but never finished it, and never got back to it until I saw the audiobook on the shelf at the library and decided it was time. The hook is that it is about the characters from the childhood classic The Wizard of Oz. But this is definit...

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sitiwajihah rated it

12 years ago

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It's a bit hard to read because it's so complex, the world Maguire imagines, but it's quite worth it.

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a TeMPLe of WoRDS rated it

12 years ago

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A truly amazing book. I had been very interested in seeing the musical, when one day a friend of mine and I were in Barnes & Noble and I came across, on one of the tables in the center, Gregory Maguire's first two Oz novels (Wicked and Son of a Witch) in paperback. I immediately picked them up and...

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