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Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman

By: Martin Gardner L. Frank Baum
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Griffin
ISBN: 0312254377
ISBN-13: 9780312254377
Released: 26 Feb 2000
RRP: £6.59
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Not what I would call an Oz book - By: , 03 Nov 1998
I have read alll of the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum & some of the more recent ones. I can tell you right now that this book spoiled Oz for me. I can't imagine Oz having computers & telephones. The author may have tried to recreate the land of Oz, but he did not succeed. He kept going back to different books that Baum wrote about Oz, telling about this or that, & that was basicallly what the first two or three chapters were about! And also, I never reallly got into this book as I did with the others, for me, this book wasn't Oz. Gardner may have thought he was doing a good job, but I didn't. Oz is supposed to be a magic place, if there are computers & telephones & the like, it takes the magic away. And Glinda never had Oz transported to another dimension, she made it invisible or something, not to another dimension. For people who love Oz the way Baum & the other authors depicted it, don't read this book. It reallly does take away from the world that Baum created & others just improved upon. Gardner shouldn't have written this book, in my opinion, it shouldn't have ever been written. Just leave Oz the way it is.