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Summary: Superb Imagination
Review: It was amazing to me...how someone could take a story so full of imagination...and give these dark characters a life before Dorothy...etc I am so drawn to this story..I have bought 20 copies in the past 2 months...and given them as gifts...along with any "Elphaba" nic nacs I can find. Thank You Mr. MacGuire for sharing your imagination with us.
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Summary: A Fabulous Concoction
Review: Starting with only the Oz books and his wonderfully fertile imagination, Gregory Maguire has created a masterpiece.
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Summary: A new meaning to Oz.
Review: I think this book is prabably the best I have ever read. If you read the Oz books like I do, you will love this book, there are no words describing how good this book is. I am wishing Gregory Maguire would write another one, and if you are reading this Mr. Maguire, I would love if you wrote another one. Trust me you will love this book.
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Summary: Hooray for the Wicked Witch of the West!
Review: "Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" details what we've always suspected and could never prove. Even as a child, I suspected something was going on behind the scenes in Oz that they weren't telling us about. The cooing, oozing-with-goodness Glinda had to have had something up her sleeve. Why didn't she just whisk Dorothy to Oz safely and soundly herself? "Wicked" answers this question and so much more. Richly detailed and captivating, it kept me up nights. From her birth to her years at the university and her growth to adulthood, it captures the full essence, personality, heartbreak, and essence that motivated the "Wicked Witch of the West". It answered all my childhood suspicions with an, "ah-ha, well that explains it." Gregory Maguire has created a banquet of a book that will leave you cheering for the underdog. I allowed my sister to borrow it and she informed me, after reading only the first few chapters, that she had no intention of returning it. That is my opinion of it, as well. It is, without a doubt, a book you'll want to hang onto to feast on again.
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Summary: A terrific book
Review: A wonderfully written, multi-layered "take" on the Oz fantasy, turning it around and making the word "wicked" much more ambiguous.
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Summary: I loved this book so much I have read it three times.
Review: This was a excilent book, I had always rooted for the wicked witch in the original OZ, now I have the book to back me up. Now they need to have this great book on the big screen, but hey its not for the kiddies this time.
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Summary: Which Witch is a Witch?
Review: Maguire is a genius. He took someone, we loved to hate when we were children and turned her into someone we hate to love. She had almost everything Baum's Characters were looking for. She had a Brain, She had "the Nerve", and most surprizingly, she had the HEART! He creats a character that is so frightningly REAL and human, and he questions the very nature of good vs. evil. And by the end of the story he leaves us with the most frightening truth: There are no answers. There is more than one side to everything, there is no cut and dry, no good or evil, no black or white, only various shades of gray.
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Summary: The Wizard of Oz - all grown up!
Review: If you loved the Oz books and movies as a child, you will love this book as an adult. Discover the underlying motives, fears, desires, prejudices and politics of the inhabitants of the Land of Oz as seen through the eyes of Elphaba, better known as the Wicked Witch of the West. This is definitely not a book for children as portions are quite suggestive.
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Summary: Fascinating Book
Review: I absolutley adored this book. Not only will I never look at Oz the same way again, but I will never look at the term "wicked" the same either. Maguire not only gave the "Wicked Witch of the West" a real name, but a history and a personality that tells us that maybe she shouldn't have been dubbed the "Wicked Witch of the West" after all.
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Summary: I enjoyed reading it but I don't know why.
Review: We all know the story of Oz, either from books or movies, so there is a certain comfortable familiarity to Wicked from the start. Maquire weaves his tale in and out of the goody-two-shoes sweetness of the 1939 Oz movie, injecting it with acid, cleverness and wit. If you're not prepared for the denizens of Oz to procreate, have conflicting opinions, fight with each other and generally act in a more "realistic" manner, Wicked may put you off. Enjoy the Baum books instead. I found it compelling. A solid read, well thought out.
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