More books like Wicked
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#0More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/15/04 at 8:29pmI enjoy books like Wicked and Gregory Maguire's other books that put a spin on classic stories. Are there any other books that you would recommend that are like this.
#1re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/15/04 at 11:28pmMaguire's other books are also quite good. "Cofessions of an Ugly Stepsister" "Mirror, Mirror" and "Lost"
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#2re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 12:06amHave you tried T. H. White? His "Once and Future King" (King Arthur) and "Mistress Masham's Repose" (Gulliver's Travels) are very special.
#3re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 12:13amLoving Confessions and Mirror.
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#4re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 3:18pmThanks for the suggestions. Does anyone know any others?
#5re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 4:20pmThere's a children's story that tells the "Three Little Pigs" from the Bid Bag Wolf's point of view, it's not a novel, but I remember loving it when I read it.
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#6re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 4:28pm"Grendel" by John Gardner is an excellent short novel retelling "Beowulf" from the point of view of the monster. Recommended.
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#7re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 4:42pmOh, and another good one is "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys, a sort of prequel to "Jane Eyre," which imagines what might have been the early life of Mr Rochester's mysterious first wife.
#8re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 6:57pm
Harry Potter. no, im just kidding!
ok.the following may sound a bit kiddish but they are actually really good!
Philip Knopf's "His Dark Materials" series
consists of:
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Also, check out the DaVinci Code.. AMAZING BOOK!
#9re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 7:29pm
nystateomind, it's called "the true story of the 3 little pigs"... i just bought it last weekend
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#11re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 7:45pmJust a quick correction: Philip Pullman wrote the "His Dark Materials" series.
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#12re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 8:51pmI used to LOVE the True Story of the Three Little Pigs. It was one of my favorite books when I was little.
#13re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/16/04 at 9:05pmWho else liked Confessions more than Wicked?
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#14re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/17/04 at 10:16am
I like Nicholas Meyer's novels which combine real and fictional characters, such as:
The Severn Percent Solution - in which Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud
Time After Tome - in which Jack the Ripper escapes to the future in H.G. Well's timew machine.
Both of the above were made into movies.
My favorite is The West End Horror, in which Sherlock Holmes investigates a murder in a theatre, and he meets Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Gilbert & Sullivan and others. I always thought this would make a great musical (although there have already been two unsuccessful Sherlock Holmes musicals).
#16re: More books like Wicked
Posted: 10/17/04 at 5:00pm
I once heard of a book called Zel.
It's the story of Rapunzel through the eyes of the witch.
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