Title: If you love OZ, you'll HATE this book
Review: Other then stealing the names and geography you'll find nothing of Baum's Oz in this book. This Oz is filled with prejudice, hatred, sex, religious intolerance, politics, backstabbing, adultery, and every other low disgusting behavior ever exhibited by humans. Not one character is noble or even particularly likeable.If you have not done much reading of serious literature you may find Macguires themes on the nature of evil interesting. But Shakespeare and Shelly did them already. If you are a reader, I doubt you'll find anything new.I admit this is all dressed up in well-written prose. And if you enjoy verbose introspection, by all means try the book out. But if you have fond memories of Baum's originals you'll probably find this betrayal of Oz too painful too enjoy.
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