Now reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire
I bought Wicked at Borders. I wasn’t going to but word of mouth in the bookstore got to me and I did. I read the prologue before coming back to the office. It was enticing if you were into the whole Wizard of Oz thing when you were a kid. Which I was. In fact, I had played a munchkin in a Wizard of Oz play back in the 3rd or 4th grade.
Wicked is a different take on the toons of Wizard of Oz. Supposedly discusses how does someone become so evil (like the wicked witch of the west) and if they’re really born that way. Or so said the guy in the bookstore while he was talking to a lady who was staring at the book. And yes, I was eavesdropping. The play captures the concept of the book but reading the actual book supposedly really gets into the author’s main ideas.
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