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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
adventurous
lighthearted
adventurous
funny
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:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
We watched Wicked so I came home and read this short little book. It's fun and strange and takes about as long to read as it does to watch the movie.
I'd never actually read any of Baum's work before this week, and it was quite enjoyable. I love a good fairy tale and the Wizard of Oz is about as good as it comes.
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
On the whole I liked more than I disliked about Hearn's annotations.
He gives a refreshingly appropriate amount of credit to that one perennially brought up monetarist view of Oz: very little! (except iirc there is one annotation where Hearn credits one particular insight as plausible)
As a former teen Oz buff but latecomer to the Judy Garland movie and someone who doesn't ...like certain adaptational choices there, I also appreciated that Hearn doesn't adulate the movie here.
Personally I enjoyed the fact that the annotations kept bringing up stuff in the Russian "translation" (it would seem adaptationally akin to but less extreme than the Icelandic "Dracula") though I suppose ymmv.
I do have reason to suspect some of the witch related annotations involve ahistorical ideas about the eras of witch hunts, although the fact that Victorians/Edwardians, including Gage, with an eye toward feminist revisionism drew those conclusions is certainly relevant to Baum's outlook.
If I remember correctly, I think there's also an inaccuracy in the annotation describing gingham but I am a fiber crafts nerd and cannot realistically expect everyone to share my knowledge there (ala the xkcd about geologists... anyway, I didn't feel like it was as clueless a description as some very minor craft details in Wicked ).
He gives a refreshingly appropriate amount of credit to that one perennially brought up monetarist view of Oz: very little! (except iirc there is one annotation where Hearn credits one particular insight as plausible)
As a former teen Oz buff but latecomer to the Judy Garland movie and someone who doesn't ...like certain adaptational choices there, I also appreciated that Hearn doesn't adulate the movie here.
Personally I enjoyed the fact that the annotations kept bringing up stuff in the Russian "translation" (it would seem adaptationally akin to but less extreme than the Icelandic "Dracula") though I suppose ymmv.
I do have reason to suspect some of the witch related annotations involve ahistorical ideas about the eras of witch hunts, although the fact that Victorians/Edwardians, including Gage, with an eye toward feminist revisionism drew those conclusions is certainly relevant to Baum's outlook.
If I remember correctly, I think there's also an inaccuracy in the annotation describing gingham but I am a fiber crafts nerd and cannot realistically expect everyone to share my knowledge there (ala the xkcd about geologists... anyway, I didn't feel like it was as clueless a description as some very minor craft details in Wicked ).