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#26

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 9/30/05 at 3:11pm

The book has depth that the musical couldn't begin to touch.

Can't wait to read Son of a Witch.

"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin

#27

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 9/30/05 at 3:14pm

So far I am loving it!

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

#28

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 9/30/05 at 3:35pm

I loved Wicked but had a ton of questions left unanswered after I read it. Does Son of A Witch answer some of those? What I mean is, does it address some of the things that were hinted at in Wicked?

#29

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 9/30/05 at 3:38pm

I'm glad your book came, Elphie! Hopefully, your week's improving after this. I hope you got some sleep finally.

You promised me poems. ~Tricky

#30

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 9/30/05 at 3:41pm

Is anyone going to the book signing/reading Sunday at Bryant Park? i think its at noon. check

www.bryantpark.org and then the NYTIMES book festival thing.

#31

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 9/30/05 at 3:51pm

I bought it the day it came out... I didn't realize it was coming out this early due to lack of internet, but I called barnes and noble and had it reserved.

I'm slowly making my way through it, appreciating it because it is truly wonderful. I love Maguire's writing style, though, it's very different than what I'm used to I still love it.

I hope they involve the looking glass more than what I read, I'm 1/2 way through it... and looking forward to reading it more.

#32

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 9/30/05 at 3:57pm

I got an advance reader copy a few months ago and didn't care for it.

#33

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 10/9/05 at 3:13pm

I'm a couple of pages in and I likeeeeeee. :)

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#34

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 10/9/05 at 3:27pm

Hello posters, I'm new to this site and I hope you're having a good Sunday!

I just received "Son of a Witch" in the mail yesterday and I can't wait to start reading it! I am interested to see how the fat, overlooked son of a green-skinned scientist evolves from his downtrodden childhood in a post-Wizard Oz.

Of course, it could also be total crap. I'll have to see.

Myself as Elphaba, All Hallow's Eve party 2005

#35

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 10/9/05 at 3:29pm

hopefully before you read it, you've read the book Wicked

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#36

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 10/9/05 at 3:36pm

Absolutely, Elphaba. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

For those who aren't enjoying Son of a Witch, what disappoints you about it?

Myself as Elphaba, All Hallow's Eve party 2005

#37

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 10/9/05 at 3:55pm

munk - I agree.

I got half way through the first time.

Then had other things to do. So I started again and got 1/4 the way through.

#38

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 10/9/05 at 4:22pm

chantilly, I'm re-reading Wicked before I read So, which I got about 10 days ago......it's been so long since I read Wicked, that I want it fresh in my mind

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#39

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 10/9/05 at 4:58pm

oy. loved the Wicked book but i don't think it needed a sequel. i'm of the view that it was written to capitilze on the musical's success... oy

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#40

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 10/9/05 at 5:00pm

love how Maguire dedicated it to the creative team of Wicked, but especially to Kristin Chenoweth, Joel Grey, and Idina Menzel (written exactly like that.)

also love how the book included the Elphaba/Fiyero sex scene as a preview of Wicked.

#41

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 10/9/05 at 8:19pm

Ah!!! I have still to find the time to get out to Barnes and Nobles to get me a copy! I was at my friends house, and she had it out on her desk, and I nearly got away with walking off with that and Lost.....but she tripped me and I dropped them....drats foiled yet again!

"If There's One Thing to Learn it's You Just Can't Go Wrong If You Follow Your Heart, and End With A Song"

#42

re: SON OF A WITCH

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

Caroline-Q-or-TBoo, Gregory Maguire said at his signing that he was actually planning on a sequel way before the seeds of the musical were even started.

#43

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 10/11/05 at 4:57pm

I enjoyed it..

#44

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 1/10/06 at 6:39pm

I just got SOAW a couple days ago and just finished it today. I actually liked this a lot more than Wicked. Not to say Wicked was a bad book, but I just liked this one better. I thought the plot was extremely interesting, but I really wish that some things were explained better. I wish there had been a confrontation between Liir and Shell at the end, I wish more about Candle had been explained, and I really wish that the last line hadn't been so extremely obvious and cheesy.

Other than that I really enjoyed the book, and hope Maguire writes another one in the series.

#45

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 1/10/06 at 6:46pm

And I really wish that the last line hadn't been so extremely obvious and cheesy.

For me, that was the most affecting part of a novel that I left me mostly unaffected. And without getting into spoiler territory, the book sets up two questions at the beginning, and I was glad that the last line at least answered one.

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

#46

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 1/26/06 at 1:24pm

just finished it a few days ago. I really liked it. I felt for Liir alot. so many unanswered questions, though. that man better be planning another sequal. I also really loved the last line. Maguire is so good at knowing how to tug at your heartstrings with the simplicity of his wording.

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

#47

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 1/26/06 at 1:31pm

Wow, this is an old thread!
What the last line indicated, I predicted pretty early on. I knew it would end with something like that. So I agree that it was obvious and cheesy. Overall, I enjoyed the book, although I prefer Wicked.

#48

re: SON OF A WITCH

Posted: 2/1/06 at 11:01pm

I just finished it this evening, and I am still letting my opinion form. While reading it, I thought, "I like this better than WICKED." After finishing it, I am not so sure. I think he has left it wide open for a third installment, to perhaps bring Lirr and Shell together.

I think my liking it better than WICKED stems from seeing the musical first, though I can't, at the moment, articulate that theory. I did enjoy the theological aspects of the sequel, perhaps because my Bible study class is currently doing a year-long study of the Old Testament and some of what is touched on involves the creation story.

"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

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