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   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   Moriarty wrote:   
   > On Aug 27, 8:48 am, Moriarty  wrote:   
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   >> I've never read any non-Baum Oz stuff and have no plans to do so   
   >> unless Wasp's Polychrome is published.   
   >   
   > And following up my own post, I just remembered that I actually have   
   > read one non-Baum Oz book, namely Gregory Maguire's _Wicked_.  I   
   > didn't care for it and promptly forgot about it.   
      
   	"Wicked" is much more a DEconstruction of Oz than it's a non-Baum Oz   
   novel, and I didn't like it much either.   
      
   	I DID like "Tin Man", to my great surprise. At first it seemed   
   completely contrary to Oz, but the more I watched it the more I realized   
   that they had people writing the script who really DID know Oz and were   
   thinking about it when they wrote "Tin Man"; one VERY nice touch was   
   when we see the original Dorothy Gale for a few moments, she is wearing   
   SILVER Shoes, not the movie's Ruby Slippers.   
      
      
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