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  Wicked - can't..... get..... started......

  I bought Wicked in paperback - heard it was excellent, fun, a good story. I can't get past Chapter 1. I don't get it. Not interesting.

  Wolfflet started this discussion 5 months ago. ( reply )

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  garnenia 

  I've heard this before. Which is why I never picked it up...
  
  Interesting what people get into. Like The Da Vinci Code.

  posted 5 months ago. ( reply )

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  Mary T 

  If you really fight through, it starts to pick up (after the first 100 pages or so). However, I found the end to be dis-jointed and un-satisfying.
  
  Just fair warning : )

  posted 4 months ago. ( reply )

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  totally a waste of precious reading time ... but just my opinion of course

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  Mrs. Lumpy 

  I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I tried to read it... I really did... but I just couldn't do it!
  Went and saw the show in the West End while on our honeymoon and loved it... thought I would try Maguire's CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER... and had the same thing happen...
  I guess it's just his writing style, but it just doesn't work for me...

  posted 4 months ago. ( reply )

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  PJoy 

  I agree, every time I see it on the bookshelf I think, what did I miss.

  posted 3 months ago. ( reply )

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    Kbest 

    Wicked is # 1 on my "WTF" list! I had heard so many incredible things about it, I actually was dumb enough to buy all of them!!! I have tried at least a dozen times and have never passed the first chapter. Not only a waste of time, but a waste of shelf space...

    posted 3 months ago. ( reply )

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    Sofia Q 

    Kbest, you've got me beat. I've tried only three, four times before giving up! Maybe it makes a better Broadway musical. ;)

    posted 3 months ago. ( reply )

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  Becky S 

  This book is a very challenging read. I really wanted to read it, started it, and just happened to see that B&N was having an online discussion with McQuire, so I finished it. I loved it, but solely because of the discussion. If I had to suffer through it by myself, would not have been as enjoyable. It's like a high school English class and the classics. Only can read Crime and Punishment with someone there to wade you through it! But then a pretty great book! I did enjoy Wicked though- maybe read it with another pal? I am going to do that with Son of a Witch- a friend and I want to read it, but going to do it at the same time so we can discuss.
  
  WARNING- if you liked the musical and then are going to read the book, don't get your hopes up! Very different.

  posted 3 months ago. ( reply )

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  MahoganyRain 

  I had the opposite problem. I really got into the book when I first started reading it but when I got to the middle. After they left school. It became really hard for me to go on. I had to stop, I couldn't force my mind to wrap around the story anymore. I did not even get to read how she died or what happened to her son.

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    againstthetide 

    Oh dear. I'm reading it now and am so far enjoying it - - but of course I haven't got to the part you are referring to yet. They are still in school now. Shoot - - I hope I am not wasting my time!

    posted 3 months ago. ( reply )

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