let me know how you like it.

...called Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. I've heard good things, but all from women. Don't know really what genre it falls into...

From Amazon:

From Publishers Weekly
Born with green skin and huge teeth, like a dragon, the free-spirited Elphaba grows up to be an anti-totalitarian agitator, an animal-rights activist, a nun, then a nurse who tends the dying?and, ultimately, the headstrong Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz. Maguire's strange and imaginative postmodernist fable uses L. Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a springboard to create a tense realm inhabited by humans, talking animals (a rhino librarian, a goat physician), Munchkinlanders, dwarves and various tribes. The Wizard of Oz, emperor of this dystopian dictatorship, promotes Industrial Modern architecture and restricts animals' right to freedom of travel; his holy book is an ancient manuscript of magic that was clairvoyantly located by Madam Blavatsky 40 years earlier. Much of the narrative concerns Elphaba's troubled youth (she is raised by a giddy alcoholic mother and a hermitlike minister father who transmits to her his habits of loathing and self-hatred) and with her student years. Dorothy appears only near novel's end, as her house crash-lands on Elphaba's sister, the Wicked Witch of the East, in an accident that sets Elphaba on the trail of the girl from Kansas?as well as the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Lion?and her fabulous new shoes. Maguire combines puckish humor and bracing pessimism in this fantastical meditation on good and evil, God and free will, which should, despite being far removed in spirit from the Baum books,

I love a good ghost story. Not familiar with Wicked. Is it about the actress who played the role?? Or a sort of prequel or sequel to the book the Oz movie is based upon.

would have added a lot more bulldogs but just couldn't enlarge the movie poster without it becoming way too blurred.

is just too small. When I enlarged it, it got even more blurred than it is now.

I just bought it the other day... I've heard good things!!! Should I be chomping at the bit to read it? Or should I leave it for a summer-read?

Julia

the true story in back of the movie....grin..great job Gary....ce

Tell me it isn't so!!!!!!!!!! I love that program so much I would even give up Jif for it. Uh, don't tell Boo I said that!

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UGHHH, I want my photo program back!

That is a nice one, very good job for sure!! Always said if I could do one thing in life (that you know you cant do) it would have been to be on the set and watch that being filmed from start to finish many decades ago, maybe even have a small part in it! Good Job Gary! Well, if they would have said you can be L. Myra Gultches husband I may have passed!

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