Comments on: Gregory Maguire’s Oz http://seasonalplume.net/2008/02/11/gregory-maguires-oz/ And I write in my seasonal plume. (writing domain) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:29:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Angela http://seasonalplume.net/2008/02/11/gregory-maguires-oz/#comment-6428 Angela Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:05:11 +0000 http://seasonalplume.net/2008/02/11/gregory-maguires-oz/#comment-6428 Oh, not at all -- different perspectives are good! I would have to agree with the bit about Maguire's words getting a bit in the way of the story, as I felt that too a number of times, although generally I skim past bogging parts like those, to return later during a second re-read. I'm not sure if I'm the only one like this, hee. When it gets to be so much that I actually put the book down for good, that's when it's really unbearable for me. I did feel a bit of disappointment as well, but then I suppose I only expected it to be so due to the fact that the book was following Ephaba, who does die rather... anticlimactically. :P Hence the need to read <em>Son of a Witch</em>, I guess? Oh, not at all — different perspectives are good! I would have to agree with the bit about Maguire’s words getting a bit in the way of the story, as I felt that too a number of times, although generally I skim past bogging parts like those, to return later during a second re-read. I’m not sure if I’m the only one like this, hee. When it gets to be so much that I actually put the book down for good, that’s when it’s really unbearable for me.

I did feel a bit of disappointment as well, but then I suppose I only expected it to be so due to the fact that the book was following Ephaba, who does die rather… anticlimactically. :P Hence the need to read Son of a Witch, I guess?

]]> By: Albert http://seasonalplume.net/2008/02/11/gregory-maguires-oz/#comment-6426 Albert Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:49:21 +0000 http://seasonalplume.net/2008/02/11/gregory-maguires-oz/#comment-6426 I too just put this book down and reviewed it in my own blog, but I'm afraid we had drastically different opinions of it. I thought Maguire was too apt to let his vocabulary get in the way of his story and although the book began magically enough, in the end he slapped everything together in a amaturish way, concerned more with his sermon on the natures of good and evil than he was with the story we'd invested ourselves in for over 400 pages. In short, I was dissapointed in the end. Glad you got something out of it, but I'd never read anything of his again. Hope you don't mind a little different perspective! I too just put this book down and reviewed it in my own blog, but I’m afraid we had drastically different opinions of it.

I thought Maguire was too apt to let his vocabulary get in the way of his story and although the book began magically enough, in the end he slapped everything together in a amaturish way, concerned more with his sermon on the natures of good and evil than he was with the story we’d invested ourselves in for over 400 pages.

In short, I was dissapointed in the end. Glad you got something out of it, but I’d never read anything of his again.

Hope you don’t mind a little different perspective!

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