{"id":1555,"date":"2005-08-24T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2005-08-24T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T00:43:00","slug":"1555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

A sequel to Wicked<\/i><\/a>? I’m not so sure that’s a good thing. There were things I loved about Maguire’s original book, but I also remember finding it strangely disappointing on some level. And, like rollick<\/a>, I suspect the success of the Broadway musical<\/a> played at least some<\/i> part in his decision to pen a sequel. The last time I tried to read a book like that, it was the execrable Hannibal<\/i><\/a> by Thomas Harris1<\/sup>. Just as I pass on film novelizations, I generally don’t choose to read sequels written solely because of a film of the first book2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Which is not to say that Gregory Maguire’s upcoming Son of a Witch<\/i> won’t be a great read — even if it is<\/i> meant to inspire a Broadway sequel. There was plenty I loved about Wicked<\/i>, and I’ve heard some good things about his follow-up novels3<\/sup>. I just — I dunno. <\/p>\n

I guess I’m just trying to say: I’ve got a lot<\/i> of other things I want to read before I go picking this one off the shelf.<\/font><\/p>\n

1<\/sup> This is somewhat unfair. While I have little doubt that it was largely thought of Hollywood that moved Mr. Harris’ pen, I never did finish the novel and, if tortured, would probably have to admit that what I did read was more painfully mediocre than truly bad<\/i>. I did, however, enjoy both Red Dragon<\/i> and The Silence of the Lambs<\/i>, and, while I suspect it’s grown a bit dated, I’ve heard good things about Black Sunday<\/i>.<\/p>\n

2<\/sup>Even with the case of books that, truth be told, I liked better than the movie<\/a>. (Although, in this case, I pretty much gave up reading Michael Crichton altogether some years ago. Even before he apparently became \u00c3\u00bcber-right-wing hack<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

3<\/sup>Although, I’ve also heard some good things about Harris’ Hannibal<\/i>, so, y’know, there’s no accounting for taste.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sequel to Wicked? I’m not so sure that’s a good thing. There were things I loved about Maguire’s original book, but I also remember finding it strangely disappointing on some level. And, like rollick, I suspect the success of the Broadway musical played at least some part in his decision to pen a sequel. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}