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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
Natürlich kannte ich die Geschichte von Dorothy, dem Löwen, der Vogelscheuche und dem Blechholzfäller schon, aber es noch einmal zu lesen war ein entspanntes und zauberhaftes Erlebnis. Ich kann es jeden nur ans Herz legen der gerne mal ein bisschen mehr über die Geschichte erfahren möchte als das, was im Film gezeigt wird.
adventurous
dark
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I gave this book 3 stars mostly because of the redundancy of the writing. It reminded me of a simple Dr. Seuess book but with a longer and more twisted plot. It would have been more enjoyable if it were a lot shorter. With that said, I liked the book more than the movie only because it included so much more. I did LOVE the movie however. It was neat reading all the differences from book to movie like the ruby red slippers were originally silver, the Tin Woodman liked to chop the heads off things that got in his way (that definitely should've been included in the movie!) and the tale behind the winged monkies. I should've read this a long time ago. I wasn't even aware that there was a whole series.
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse
It’s fine.
Listened with my mom. Still trying to get into audio books. Anne Hathaway was mostly good. I didn’t like the voices outside the main characters. She was trying so hard to make a different voice and with it different accents that it’s super distracting.
Listened with my mom. Still trying to get into audio books. Anne Hathaway was mostly good. I didn’t like the voices outside the main characters. She was trying so hard to make a different voice and with it different accents that it’s super distracting.
As kids, my brother and I looked forward with anticipation to library day each week. We were eager readers of all the chapter book series of the 90's and fans of comic strips, checking out and swapping copies of Tintin and Garfield and Calvin And Hobbes. As we got older, our tastes diverged slightly. He was always the Roald Dahl guy and the Oz guy. He read a large number of the Oz books and told me about them in bits and pieces. Now, I’m finally getting around to starting them for myself.
Oz is the light sort of children's fiction, replete with nonsense and non-sequitur in all the best and most confident ways. Much of it feels symbolic in the way a dream is symbolic, with some sense of meaning that is not quite straightforward. It doesn't seem to mind if nothing makes sense, but it manages to verge on philosophical depth at times before wandering back into lighter territory. While the changes made for the film are understandable, the attempt to streamline and perhaps explain elements does not improve upon the original. The world of Oz and its inhabitants are not the most cohesive in the world, but that is what makes the magic of it remarkable.
Oz is the light sort of children's fiction, replete with nonsense and non-sequitur in all the best and most confident ways. Much of it feels symbolic in the way a dream is symbolic, with some sense of meaning that is not quite straightforward. It doesn't seem to mind if nothing makes sense, but it manages to verge on philosophical depth at times before wandering back into lighter territory. While the changes made for the film are understandable, the attempt to streamline and perhaps explain elements does not improve upon the original. The world of Oz and its inhabitants are not the most cohesive in the world, but that is what makes the magic of it remarkable.
re-read July 2014 w/F Bomb; would def rate lower as an adult (2.5-3 stars), jeez
This book is very much written in the old fairy tale type fashion-very like Pinocchio that I read not long ago on my Kindle-except it perhaps makes a tiny bit more sense, but it definately has it's moments of *not* making any sense...like, why does the Tin-man not kill/let be killed bugs or mice but chops off the heads of bigger creatures all the time? He has some issues he needs to get straight with why some animals lives are more valuable than others...Also, why did it have to talk about what Dorothy was eating for *every* *single* *meal* all the time? It was never, ever important unless I'm really missing something.
Like all fairy tales, this one had it's stupid moments (like all the main characters repeating, every time they met someone new and many, many, many other times that they needed their brains, heart, courage, home) but it also had it's beautiful and somewhat profound moments to think about and take back with you. It was an easy, fast read and I enjoyed it like I would any bizarre fairy tale, but not more (like the Last Unicorn being *so much more* than a fairy tale). Still, with all the books that go to this series I'm excited to see how vast the world he's created is and how much they might all connect with each other, and I do plan to read the others-at least all the ones Baum has written, and maybe some of the ones after that, too, we'll see.
It was interesting reading this *after* I had read Wicked and not before. There weren't a whole lot of parallels to be drawn, but some. I like what that author chose to question about the story.
The book is so much more than the movie, and it's curious what they chose to keep-most of the first half-like they didn't finish the book to make the movie and just skimmed what happened near the end. :p
Like all fairy tales, this one had it's stupid moments (like all the main characters repeating, every time they met someone new and many, many, many other times that they needed their brains, heart, courage, home) but it also had it's beautiful and somewhat profound moments to think about and take back with you. It was an easy, fast read and I enjoyed it like I would any bizarre fairy tale, but not more (like the Last Unicorn being *so much more* than a fairy tale). Still, with all the books that go to this series I'm excited to see how vast the world he's created is and how much they might all connect with each other, and I do plan to read the others-at least all the ones Baum has written, and maybe some of the ones after that, too, we'll see.
It was interesting reading this *after* I had read Wicked and not before. There weren't a whole lot of parallels to be drawn, but some. I like what that author chose to question about the story.
The book is so much more than the movie, and it's curious what they chose to keep-most of the first half-like they didn't finish the book to make the movie and just skimmed what happened near the end. :p
Read this with my daughter and she definitely mentioned it was longer than the movie. I also had to explain some not kid friendly things in the book as well but all in all a good book to read with my six year old.