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A review by romankurys
The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum
3.0
When I closed the cover of the “Tin Woodman of Oz” realization that my journey through the original Baum series is almost at its end.
While it’s taken me a few years, since I read a bunch of other books between each of them, it doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. It feels almost like the land of Oz hit the stop on the timer every time I came to visit. Makes me feel a bit sad.
Anyhow, this was a solid story. I always wondered about the Tin Woodman’s previous, human life and the girl he left behind. I never understood why he didn’t just go back, but I suppose one thing gets in front of another and things you know you should do just slip to the side. (Kinda like keeping a diet, or going to gym :))
This felt like a proper adventure. Many characters, some familiar and some not so much. The same dance of adventure I’ve come to expect now although by now I am also getting a bit fatigued. While it’s nice to keep on visiting Oz, each story through the last few volumes has been very similar to one another. I get it, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it, but a part of me wonders what could have been.
I think back to Narnia and how each story was a different adventure from one another, and I am hoping that Baum would do that as well, but it appears he is taking an easy way through it.
Well it’s all good. We’re almost at the end and at this point, might as well finish the series.
Wouldn’t recommend this as a starting point, and if you’ve read along so far in the series, keep on chugging along friends :)
Roman
While it’s taken me a few years, since I read a bunch of other books between each of them, it doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. It feels almost like the land of Oz hit the stop on the timer every time I came to visit. Makes me feel a bit sad.
Anyhow, this was a solid story. I always wondered about the Tin Woodman’s previous, human life and the girl he left behind. I never understood why he didn’t just go back, but I suppose one thing gets in front of another and things you know you should do just slip to the side. (Kinda like keeping a diet, or going to gym :))
This felt like a proper adventure. Many characters, some familiar and some not so much. The same dance of adventure I’ve come to expect now although by now I am also getting a bit fatigued. While it’s nice to keep on visiting Oz, each story through the last few volumes has been very similar to one another. I get it, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it, but a part of me wonders what could have been.
I think back to Narnia and how each story was a different adventure from one another, and I am hoping that Baum would do that as well, but it appears he is taking an easy way through it.
Well it’s all good. We’re almost at the end and at this point, might as well finish the series.
Wouldn’t recommend this as a starting point, and if you’ve read along so far in the series, keep on chugging along friends :)
Roman