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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (edição: 2000)

de Gregory Maguire

Séries: The Wicked Years (1)

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This re-creation of the land of Oz, tells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Wicked just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature.… (mais)
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Título:Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Autores:Gregory Maguire
Informação:William Morrow Paperbacks (2000), Paperback, 406 pages
Coleções:Sua biblioteca
Avaliação:****
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West de Gregory Maguire

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I first read this book a number of years ago, and I didn't like it. I wanted more Dorothy and less Oz Politics. Than I forgot most of the plot, including Elphaba's little sister, Nessarose.

So on a reread, I found it a completely different book, a story about trying to do the right thing, but completely screwing up or timing issues, with people dying due to these screw ups. It is a heartbreaking tale, from being used to make a point about religion form a parent, to losing connections to a point of pride.

Elphaba becoming the witch isn't so much about good and evil, its about losing what ones values, not black and white, but grey and grey - its impossible to make good choices when the world you live in is so bleak.

Oddly enough, this is one of those books that explains the real world - using religious intolerance, colonization, fascism, all starting with a years long drought that causes famine and income loss, it is analogy for our world.

Also, I still want more Dorothy....... :) ( )
  TheDivineOomba | Mar 30, 2024 |
If I could, I would give this less than 1 star. It was really a disgusting, confusing book. I picked it up because I love the musical; the name is the only thing this has in common with that. The only reason I even finished it (& still have it) because finishing books is a personal rule of mine. I still have my copy because I am totally against trashing or burning books, but it's so disgusting I would never pass it on to anyone else. ( )
3 vote blakelylaw | Mar 3, 2024 |
Have tried reading this twice now and it's just not grabbing me at all. Probably the transphobia. ( )
  LaurenThemself | Feb 20, 2024 |
I can't decide whether this book is wicked good (it feels brainy -- it has philosophy and politics and some great satire parts) or badly written and pretentious. The jumps in time estranged me as reader from the characters. I'm glad I kept on reading because in the last 50 pages some things became a bit more clear.

I have a huge crush on Turtleheart. ( )
  jd7h | Feb 18, 2024 |
DNF -- so much promise, so much detailed and expansive writing, and yet i'm 85 pages in and almost nothing has happened. i'm still being introduced to someone who is likely the main character, and only just spotted another protagonist... maybe i'll finish later, but i'd like my books to have some reasonable pacing, not act like every little thing and person needs an encyclopaedic backstory... ( )
  travelgirl-fics | Feb 11, 2024 |
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Although Mr. Maguire demonstrates a knack for conjuring up bizarre adventures for Elphie and introducing her to an eccentric cast of creatures (though nowhere near as enchanting as the many creatures Baum invented in his multiple sequels to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"), his insistence on politicizing Oz and injecting it with a heavy dose of moral relativism turns a wonderfully spontaneous world of fantasy into a lugubrious allegorical realm, in which everything and everyone is labeled with a topical name tag.
 
With a husky voice and a gentle, dramatic manner that will call to mind the image of a patient grandfather reading to an excited gaggle of children, McDonough leisurely narrates this fantastical tale of good and evil, of choice and responsibility. In Maguire's Oz, Elphaba, better known as the Wicked Witch of the West, is not wicked; nor is she a formally schooled witch. Instead, she's an insecure, unfortunately green Munchkinlander who's willing to take radical steps to unseat the tyrannical Wizard of Oz. Using an appropriately brusque voice for the always blunt Elphaba, McDonough relates her tumultuous childhood (spent with an alcoholic mother and a minister father) and eye-opening school years (when she befriends her roommate, Glinda). McDonough's pacing remains frustratingly slow even after the plot picks up, and Elphaba's protracted ruminations on the nature of evil will have some listeners longing for an abridgement. Still, McDonough's excellent portrayals of Elphaba's outspoken, gravel-voiced nanny and Glinda's snobbish friends make this excursion to Oz worthwhile
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'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are. -Daniel Defoe, A System of Magick
In historical events great men--so called--are but the labels that serve to give a name to an event, and like labels, they have the last possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity. -Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi, War and Peace
"Well," Said the head, "I will give you your answer. You have no right to expect me to send you back to Kansas unless you do something for me in return. In this country everyone must pay for everything he gets. If you wish me to use my magic power to send you home again you must do something for me first. Help me and I will help you." "What must I do?" asked the girl. "Kill the wicked Witch of the West," answered Oz. -L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind's forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air.
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"You're not so bold at all," said Elphaba, "you're about as bold as tea made from used leaves" (p.129)
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