Wicked
The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Wicked Good. The background story of the Wicked Witch of the West, one of the main antagonists in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, that is, before she was assassinated by that goody two shoes Dorothy, her vicious dog and her gang of self-righteous friends. But why was she so ‘wicked’? What were her tru......more

I’ve pretty much stopped buying lunch at my work cafeteria because no matter how often the description of the day’s entrée induces those salivary glands into action, the end result is always terribly disappointing. The food looks like it should be good—braised beef that seems savory, fresh-looking t......more

From the first page, I couldn't put the book down. I loved it! And as my love for the book Wicked and the Wicked Witch of the West grew, my hatred for George Lucas grew in direct proportion. How could he have gotten it so wrong? I never pretended to like the new trilogy. It could have been a new sto......more

As far as fairy tales are concerned, adults recall them to be simple moral stories of how things go wrong if you want the wrong things. As fond of them as adults may be, the stories aren't often dissected, interpreted, or believed in for much farther than that. The brilliance behind Maguire's books,......more

I love my physical edition of this novel...while the reading experience wasn't as good as always thought that it would be. MANY SHADES OF GREEN A thing that I got amazed when I started to "label" this book, in the process of my review, in my virtual shelves of Goodreads was how many different......more