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March 19, 2006
Wicked
Last night I finally finished Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. I had high hopes for the book, even as I continued to plow through a mostly mediocre delivery, I kept waiting for the hook - the next page that really got the roller-coaster rolling.
I was waiting 'till the very end.
It wasn't that it was a bad book - far from it, it's just that it took a great concept (tell the story of the Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the "bad" guy) and fell a little short in it's delivery. While I liked where Maguire tried to take the character, I have to admit I could never completely reconcile the misunderstood accidental villain with the out-and-out evil from Baum's story (ok, I admit it - when I say story I mean movie).
I've got a couple of his others sitting on a shelf (bought them at Costco a while back), including Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Mirror, Mirror, but for the moment, I'm taking a break and starting Spook, by Mary Roach, who wrote the completely engrossing Stiff.
Posted by dberger at March 19, 2006 2:52 PM