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7 Reddit comments about Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West:

u/sylvan · 4 pointsr/scifi

Gregory Macquire's "Wicked" also explores the events of the film from the POV of the witch.

u/fernguts · 4 pointsr/CityPorn

TIL they made a play out of Wicked. Good book!

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/funny

If you haven't read the book Wicked, do so. It's brilliant! If you're too lazy, er, don't have enough time to read a book, then watch the movie (2012 / 2013).

u/SlothMold · 1 pointr/books

I just went and stared at my bookshelves and realized that there was a distinct paucity of minority characters.

However, some general recommendations:

feed for the teenager uninterested in the world at large or the dystopian fiction fan.

My Date with Satan Short stories, usually from a female perspective. High schoolers would probably delight in the bad language and messed up characters.

Trickster's Choice; A young adult girl-power fantasy/spy novel with a lot to say about colonialism. My strongest recommendation on this list. Lots of major minority characters also.

Infidel; A heavy-handed memoir about triumph by a woman who "escaped" Somalia and is now a European politician. Controversial for a multitude of reasons and has nothing nice to say about Islam, but you know your students better than I do.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for the scientifically inclined.

Wicked for modern classic fans who'd appreciate deeper meanings.

u/underline2 · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Well, in that case!

  • Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg

    This is my favorite book of all time. It draws you in and makes you feel like the characters are family. I also really enjoy the underlying themes of ethics in TV and new technology contrasted against small-town America. Sad and funny and heartwarming.

  • Blankets, by Craig Thompson

    The autobiographical comic of a teenage boy and his overbearing parents, his relationship with his little brother and his first love. It perfectly captures the confusion of growing up and dealing with the lot life gives you.

  • The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

    Wickedly funny, but also a melancholy look at racial tension and prejudice. The audiobook is fantastic!

  • Wicked, by Gregory Maguire

    Dark, very wtf, confusing at times, but overall a really cool take on the Wizard of Oz universe. Dark City meets Heat meets Wizard of Oz.

  • The Secret of Platform 13, by Eva Ibbotson

    A fun, whimsical story about spoiled children being terrible. Ibbotson's books are all really great in that bad people aren't just misunderstood or lonely. They are also assholes. And everyone calls them on it. It is really refreshing in children's/YA books.

  • The Solitaire Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder

    This book changed my teenage existence. It's very simple, yet beautifully crafted. It's everything Alice in Wonderland fans have built that mythos into, without any of the pretentiousness/needing to be zany for zaniness' sake.

  • Deerskin, by Robin McKinley

    This is my favorite dark fairy tale. The beginning gets into some heavy stuff, but it has everything that I love: a strong lady protagonist, excellent character growth, and dogs. SO MANY DOGS. Dogs are the real love story.

  • The Raging Quiet, by Sherryl Jordan

    I stole this from my high school library because I didn't know where to get my own copy. It's a really excellent look at disability in the middle ages, couched in a very sweet romance.

  • The Blue Castle, by LM Montgomery

    This is the ultimate vicarious experience book. The protagonist goes from mousy and trod-upon to "I don't care what you think, I'm gonna run away with misfits and unemployables and have a grand time, thankyouverymuch". It's everything you want to happen in a non-contrived, excellently paced way.

  • Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs

    The first of a classic series! They're short, which is nice, and very dated but still so much fun. Tarzan is the ultimate early 20th century Mary-Sue but it works for him.

  • The Mount, by Carol Emshwiller

    I really enjoyed the world built in this book. It's silly at times without trying to be, but it's a cool horse-flavored dystopian coming-of-age story.

  • Tamora Pierce's Tortall series (17 books total in 3 quartets, a duo and a trilogy. They can be read separately but I feel chronologically gives the best experience.) This is the first one. They're the ultimate female-lead sword and sorcery books.

    The first quartet focuses on a young girl who pretends to be a boy so she can become a knight. The second is about an orphaned country girl who discovers she can communicate with animals just in time to help with a war between humans and immortal monsters. The third is about the first girl allowed to train as a knight and a non-magical war.

    The duo is about a spymaster's daughter stuck in a civil war based on the British occupation of India.

    The trilogy is set in the past and is a series of intense mysteries/police dramas. Pidgeons are carriers of the dead in this mythos and the main character can hear their voices.
u/BabbleGhoti · 1 pointr/books

Wicked, by Gregory Maguire

u/Killwize · 1 pointr/AdviceAnimals

LOL, it's time to read Wicked!