http://john.jubjubs.net/2006/01/02/wicked-by-gregory-maguire/ my semi-regular stream of consciousness Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:22:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://john.jubjubs.net/2006/01/02/wicked-by-gregory-maguire/#comment-51 Adam Nash Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:15:42 +0000 http://john.jubjubs.net/?p=202#comment-51 I thought this was horribly over-rated... likely because people liked the musical. As a book, I couldn't get over how inconsistent the book was with the original Baum structure of Oz (he did, after all, write 14 books in the series). Maguire could have easily achieved hist goals for the novel within the framework of the charaters and characteristics of Oz. The book also seemed to fizzle dramatically in the last third, as if he didn't really know how to make it all matter. I thought this was horribly over-rated… likely because people liked the musical. As a book, I couldn’t get over how inconsistent the book was with the original Baum structure of Oz (he did, after all, write 14 books in the series). Maguire could have easily achieved hist goals for the novel within the framework of the charaters and characteristics of Oz. The book also seemed to fizzle dramatically in the last third, as if he didn’t really know how to make it all matter.

]]> http://john.jubjubs.net/2006/01/02/wicked-by-gregory-maguire/#comment-5347 Adam Nash Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:15:42 +0000 http://john.jubjubs.net/?p=202#comment-5347 I thought this was horribly over-rated... likely because people liked the musical. As a book, I couldn't get over how inconsistent the book was with the original Baum structure of Oz (he did, after all, write 14 books in the series). Maguire could have easily achieved hist goals for the novel within the framework of the charaters and characteristics of Oz. The book also seemed to fizzle dramatically in the last third, as if he didn't really know how to make it all matter. I thought this was horribly over-rated… likely because people liked the musical. As a book, I couldn’t get over how inconsistent the book was with the original Baum structure of Oz (he did, after all, write 14 books in the series). Maguire could have easily achieved hist goals for the novel within the framework of the charaters and characteristics of Oz. The book also seemed to fizzle dramatically in the last third, as if he didn’t really know how to make it all matter.

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