A review by pagemaid
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

2.0

Well, now I can say I read it. It's a very fast read, with very short chapters of rather childishly simplistic conflict/resolution mini-escapades. But I was surprised, since it seems to be such a children's book, that there are so many nonchalant descriptions of the Woodsman chopping people's heads off. Maybe that just shows how much cultural sensitivities have changed in the century since the book was written. Oz is a very imaginative place; I probably would have been captivated by it and it's strange inhabitants if I had been younger when I first read the book. It is very different from the movie, too, but hits on a lot of the same points, (like the wizard giving them things they already had).