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Alexandria
My distaste has nothing to do with the musical, as I have never seen it. The pacing is painfully slow, even for a book of this size and as the first book in a quartet. The characters are boring with too heavy a reliance placed on our understanding of where they end up. The author's focus on the genitals of baby Elphie, the drug-induced sex in the Philosophy Club, and the references to children pinching their mother's nipples "affectionately" or forcing one another to expose their genitals were just too much for me. I read and write erotica, so sexual references towards adults isn't a problem for me. But focusing on childrens' sexual organs is disturbing and certainly nothing I want to read. Essentially I find nothing redeemable in this book other than the author's decent world building.
Nina Foster
I don't remember children exposing their genitals in the book, and I read the whole thing about a month ago. I also don't remember them pinching their mother's nipples. I don't remember children at all actually, except for Elphaba and how her family had a hard time with the fact that she was green, and Fiyero's pre-teens, but I don't remember them doing those things. Naturally when one wants to know the gender of a newborn the first place they look is the genitals, which I recall, but throughout the book any mention of sex was light and brief and obviously not impressionable enough for me to remember, and what I do remember did not involve children.
Jake Hawkins
Because even without seeing the play you can tell this a horribly written piece of garbage.
Heather
Yes, all those parts were in the book. Nina, maybe you read the abridge version? I am half way through and I hate it. It is dreary and painfully slow. I don't know anything about the musical. Didn't see and don't want to. But this book is is just horrible. I am only finished because I am hoping that maybe, just maybe it will be worth it. That has happened before with other books.
Rod
I agree with you Abby. The book is not at all like the play. It isn´t for children. I also enjoy the book a lot. It isn´t easy to read, a lot you have to figure out on your own, but the character development is slow, but that´s o.k. I find it very interesting to figure out the motivations of the characters. It doesn´t spoon feed you their motivations. I guess people hate it cuz it doesn´t do the work for them. Their conversations don´t always flow, which I would suppose is more realistic to our own conversations with people.
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