Title: If Evil is Boring, I Have Found a Truly Wicked Book
Review: I read the book, because I was hypnotized by the previews of the Broadway musical. When I saw the negative reviews for the novel, I thought that the readers were being unfair. However, they were truly correct. Gregory Maguire's only decent contribution to the world of literature was allowing us to perceive the Wicked Witch of the West in a different light. Everything else he wrote was a mish-mash of dense and boring musings. His interest in the nature of evil was the only thing guiding the book, and he did not even end up doing a good job at exploring the subject. He seemed more preoccupied with inserting extraneous sexual content that was relatively meaningless, which brings further questions about the nature of his psyche more than the nature of evil. Was this a treatise on evil, a bad romance novel, or a boring stab at an interesting concept? I still cannot resurrect a reply.
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