Re: Wicked

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Ummmm, the " sex crap, " as you put it, in Wicked amounts to nothing more than a

single

scene in the book. That scene has more to do with Elphaba's feelings for, and

rather star-

crossed relationship with, a particular man than with cataloging bedroom

maneuvers. The

entire novel is an attempt to explain where Oz's Wicked Witch of the West—and

other

characters—might have come from, as psychologically viable developments of

realistic

adult personalities. L. Baum's novels, although good political satires

when they were

written, tended to portay characters as flat and two-dimensional, wholly good

and

handsome or wholly bad and ugly. Maguire's novels try to depict the characters

with more

depth, as more believable. I think they do it well. I would suggest, though,

that you try

reading Wicked and decide for yourself, as is your right. You might find the

book at your

local library, and thus save yourself the cost of the book if you're later

disappointed with

it.

Incidentally, I think Son of a Witch, the sequel to Wicked, is the only other of

Maguire's

novels that deal with Oz. It deals with Elphaba's son, a character I think

Maguire invented. I

don't remember Baum's novels ever mentioning a son of the Witch of the West.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Lost look like similar treatments of other

traditional

fairy-tale characters. I haven't read those, however, so I could be wrong.

Koldune

>

> I guess I'll have to do that. I'll have to google and see if there's a forum

for Oz books. I

was in a Wal-Mart today, and I saw that Wicked book for a little over $10. I

would've loved

to have gotten it and read it if the writer knew how to write a book without

having sex

crap in it. It looked pretty good. It was The Wizard of Oz from the Wicked

Witch of the

West's point of view. I wish there was a way I could get an edited copy of it.

I noticed

there were several other books by Maguire including Confessions of an

Ugly

Stepsister, Lost, Mirror Mirror, and Son of a Witch. Is anyone here familiar

with any of

those books and can tell me how many of them are Oz books and if they're clean

or not?

> God bless, Irelan

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