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Son Of A Witch Unabridged Cd: A Novel [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Gregory Maguire (Author)
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With a voice that sounds a bit like Richard Dreyfuss on helium, Maguire does a solid if somewhat unconventional job of narrating his own novel. His pace, like his prose, is deliberate and thoughtful. His creativity and imagination shine in his ability to provide his strange characters (not a human among them) with equally unusual voices. It is not the tonal range that makes his delivery interesting, though; it's the cadence and timbre of the voices that win the listener over. Liir, who may or may not be the son of the Wicked Witch of the West, is read with a detached, depressed air, an adolescent with ennui looking for his lost half-sister, Nor. Candle, the Munchkin girl who becomes his sweetheart, has a voice that sounds almost like backwards masking. A short interview with Maguire is an added value on the final disc; he says he enjoys the recording process and that the inspiration for the book was twofold: the many letters from young fans asking what happened to Nor, last seen as a chained political prisoner, and seeing the Abu Ghraib torture photographs. This one-two punch left an itch that could only be scratched by writing Son of a Witch.
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Adult/High School–Son picks up where Maguires highly successful Wicked (HarperCollins, 1995) left off, with the death of Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West. She left behind a daughter, Nor, and Liir, who may or may not be her son. After her death, he enters into a decade of listless soul searching. He travels for a time and then joins the military, enjoying the structure it provides his life. But eventually his rearing by the Witch as well as his possible heritage catch up to him and he finds himself in demand to start a new revolution against the tyranny of Emerald City. An odd series of disfiguring murders starts occurring all across Oz. Liir discovers that the new Emperor sits behind the machinations and uses the strange killings to spread distrust among the various races of the land. Wielding Elphabas flying broom and donning her magical cape, Liir makes some small but bold gestures that help the populace of Oz and replants the seeds of hope that Elphaba spread a generation before. Son is a tighter work than Wicked, making deft use of flashbacks and varying viewpoints to create a quicker pace. And Liirs quest–both to find himself and to save the people of Oz–is easier to believe than the motivations that drove the bitter yet heroic Elphaba. A well-written, well-crafted fantasy that can stand on its own.–Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining & Interesting, Dec 6 2005
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This review is from: Son Of A Witch: A Novel (Hardcover)
This book is very dark and very entertaining. I would definately reccomend it to anyone who read the wicked and loved the backstory and the whole political underbelly part of it. If you've just seen the musical, and never read novel i would reccomend not reading this one until you have, or else you'll have absolutely no idea whats going or who any of the characters are. The only familiar characters represented from the show are Glinda & Dorothy's crew (and just in small cameos). But Overall I thought it was a great sequal and as usual Gregory Mcguire went into great detail about the world of oz, constantly giving new information about the places and peoples involved in the story.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Meh . . ., April 24 2010
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This review is from: Son Of A Witch: Volume Two in The Wicked Years (Mass Market Paperback)
I really enjoyed reading the first book in the series "Wicked" and seeing the live production show. I was very excited to read "Son of a Witch." I finished the book and was disappointed. I do not plan to read the third book. I thought "Wicked" was very innovative to tell the story of Oz from a different view point. I had no interest in reading about the wicked witch's supposed son, and the story did not hold my interest. I finished the book not satisfied and I have no plans to keep it in my book collection, I gave it away to my sister-in-law. Disappointing.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Wickedly funny!, May 24 2006
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This review is from: Son Of A Witch: A Novel (Hardcover)
Love the title----and the book! This is the continuing story of WICKED which, unless you've been living under a rock, you know about. I didn't really feel that it dragged at all. I read it from cover to cover in one evening. I think the fact that it deals more with Liir's character growing and developing more than actual "action" probably puts some people off. I get very caught up in this version of Oz, however, so I like to read these things. I thought it did a great job following in the footsteps of Wicked. Must also recommend the books: KATZENJAMMER by Jackson McCrae, and the novel CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER.
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