More books like Wicked

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 10/15/04 at 8:29pm

I 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.

[mominator]

Posted: 10/15/04 at 11:28pm

Maguire's other books are also quite good. "Cofessions of an Ugly Stepsister" "Mirror, Mirror" and "Lost"

[kjklo]

Posted: 10/16/04 at 12:06am

Have you tried T. H. White? His "Once and Future King" (King Arthur) and "Mistress Masham's Repose" (Gulliver's Travels) are very special.

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/16/04 at 12:13am

Loving Confessions and Mirror.

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 10/16/04 at 3:18pm

Thanks for the suggestions. Does anyone know any others?

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 10/16/04 at 4:20pm

There'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]

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]

Posted: 10/16/04 at 4:42pm

Oh, 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.

[Elphaba3]

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!

[zepka102]

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

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 10/16/04 at 7:41pm

ha ha.... lol

[kjklo]

Posted: 10/16/04 at 7:45pm

Just a quick correction: Philip Pullman wrote the "His Dark Materials" series.

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 10/16/04 at 8:51pm

I used to LOVE the True Story of the Three Little Pigs. It was one of my favorite books when I was little.

[TGIF]

Posted: 10/16/04 at 9:05pm

Who else liked Confessions more than Wicked?

[Jon]

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).

[Liam]

Posted: 10/17/04 at 11:20am

into the woods

[~FloweryFriend~]

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.