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The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum

sergei_ter_tumasov's review against another edition

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1.0

Все хуже и хуже!!!

У [a:L Frank Baum|16598822|L Frank Baum|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] фантазии хватает только на придумывание всяких странных существ, а сюжет повторяется из книги в книгу! Давно бы перестал читать эту бездарную серию (бедные американские дети!!!), но моего знания английского, к сожалению, хватает только на детские книжки и книжки этой серии легко найти в интернете.

Перечитал свою рецензию на предыдущую книгу, [b:The Emerald City of Oz|179668|The Emerald City of Oz (Oz #6)|L. Frank Baum|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1172470903s/179668.jpg|2269930], впечатления совпали на 100%:
" В начале показалось, что эта книга будет получше, чем предыдущие, но, к сожалению, всего лишь показалось! Сюжет, практически, тот же самый, что и в других книгах серии: куда-то едут, по дороге встречают всевозможных странных типов (которые на основной сюжет вообще никак не влияют), приезжают в Изумрудный город, потом какое-то незначительное вторжение плохих существ, а потом все снова счастливы."

За исключением вторжения плохих существ (в этот раз все хорошие и проблема, из-за которой начался весь сыр-бор, возникла по неосторожности) все справедливо и для [b:The Patchwork Girl of Oz|560637|The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Oz, #7)|L. Frank Baum|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1349732477s/560637.jpg|173557].

И еще непонятно почему книга называется [b:The Patchwork Girl of Oz|560637|The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Oz, #7)|L. Frank Baum|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1349732477s/560637.jpg|173557] ( на русский перевели как "Лоскутушка (!!!!!!!!!!) из страны Оз" (бедные русские дети!!!)), ведь она не является главным персонажем, а просто время от времени придумывает глупые стишки, которые всем действуют на нервы!

Но, как ни странно, книга имела финансовый успех, поэтому автор продолжил свой нелегкий труд! Так что либо я повышаю свой уровень английского, либо придется читать еще целых 7 (!!!!) книг!

mixxie67's review against another edition

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4.0

i had a really nice edition of this when i was a kid. it was one of the few books I owned actually. my brother and i were obsessed with Bungles, the glass cat to the extent that we named a cat after it.

booksenvogue's review against another edition

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3.0

Review to come...

kotka's review

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3.0

This was hard to get through. It was very slow going.

quoththegirl's review against another edition

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4.0

Very enjoyable Oz story! This introduces several new characters, including Ojo the Unlucky and Scraps the Patchwork Girl, as the title implies. I also really liked the Glass Cat and wish she had kept her attitude to the end. The usual deus ex machina of Oz, Glinda, doesn't even show up in the book but still fulfills her role from afar--minorly irritating, but Baum's books follow a set pattern by this point, and if his young audience of the time loved it, he saw little reason to depart from it.

lounamoth's review against another edition

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5.0

This was definitely my favorite of the Oz books so far. I really loved Scraps, she's such a weirdo

emiged's review against another edition

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3.0

The Patchwork Girl is one of my favorite Oz characters. She's absolutely delightful! I loved her whimsical little rhymes and her unquestioning loyalty to Ojo as well as the budding romance between her and the Scarecrow.

While I've dinged other Oz books for being "travelogues" without any driving plot, the urgency behind Ojo's journey feels real. He desperately wants to save Unc Nunkie, his only relative and, until his travels, his only friend as well. (Curious, though, how he lives with his uncle - no mother or father in sight - in a land where no one ever dies...but I digress.)

Mr. Baum has an interesting approach to moral dilemmas. For the record, if the only way to rescue Unc Nunkie was to sacrifice a single yellow butterfly, I'd probably cry a bit (I couldn't spear a worm on a hook to go fishing), but I'd do it. It wouldn't even be a question for me. The Tin Woodman would not approve, I'm sure, but I thought his response to Ojo's request remarkably cold and cruel for one who is supposed to be "tender-hearted."

And Ozma's "benevolent dictatorship" truly gets on my nerves some times. No one but Glinda and the Wizard (what happened to the Good Witch of the North?) can practice magic, even for their own amusement and benefit, because some people did bad things with it? Let's take away everyone's cars because some people drive drunk! And while she sits in her opulent Emerald City and proclaims how devoted she is to the happiness of her people, there are people in her land in such dire straits that they have to leave their homes so they don't starve (even if they can't die, they can't be pleasant!)? Get out of your throne room, lady, and look around!

Yes, I'm aware that I'm reading far too much into these children's fairy tales. So sue me.

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paurw's review against another edition

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3.0

Otra de las extrañas historias de la Tierra de Oz.

Esta me gustó más que la anterior de todas maneras, tuvimos la oportunidad de conocer un rincón de la Tierra de Oz que no habíamos visto, la de los Quadlings, eso lo encontré muy valioso.
Pero con esta historia me pasó lo que me ha pasado en varias ya, se me hizo tediosa a ratos y sin sentido, pues siempre hubo una solución más sencilla. Entiendo que son historias para otro público y por eso lo perdono.

woody425's review against another edition

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4.0

This was a good one too, it’s been two good volumes on the trot! I really liked the patchwork girl she was cute and I loved the connection she had with the scarecrow! 4/5

lmm6758's review against another edition

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3.0

Ok - I'm reading it because it was mentioned in "The Book". Must count words as well.