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  • The story started out well enough, but I quickly grew bored with it. The writing is unengaging and rather bland throughout. And for some reason, the author seems to think the reader wants to know when any character decides to take a piss. Literally. I'm sure there's some symbolism there I didn't car ... Continue

    The story started out well enough, but I quickly grew bored with it. The writing is unengaging and rather bland throughout. And for some reason, the author seems to think the reader wants to know when any character decides to take a piss. Literally. I'm sure there's some symbolism there I didn't care to figure out.

    The last part of the book was better than the rest (following as it did hundreds of pages of boring political and religious machinations and thinly veiled allegories on civil rights) but by the time I reached those final 100 pages I was reading not to find out what happened, but just to get through the thing.

    

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  • It was fun to listen to this talke from a different perspective. So what really happened??? :) This might be a fun book to read for an adult book club. At times I thought it was a little drawn out.

    

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  • Wicked

  • A very strange book and sometimes hard to read. I've heard the Musical is very good. I think I'd like to see for myself. Not sure I'd read anything by this author again. Just not my usual style.

    

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  • OMG I HATED THIS BOOK!! I had heard quite a bit about this book, so I decided to read it. I think it is the most horrible book I've ever forced myself to finish. I kept hoping it would get better, but that never happened. I was more than disappointed- I was disgusted by this book.

    

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  • Interesting idea but I think I like the musical storyline better and I'm glad they made the changes to it.

    

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  • Elphaba! Elphaba!

    <humming: Popular, you're gonna be popular . . >

    

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When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch–nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?

Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first–class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle–class stability and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green–skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to be the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

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