I've been re-reading [i]The Wicked Years[/i] tetralogy by Gregory Maguire, which I first read around 2012. If you're not familiar, it's a re-imagining of the Oz mythos which inspired that [i]Wicked[/i] musical that I've never seen that then spawned that grotesque Hollyweird assault they call a movie.
It's an excellent series of novels in my view, easily his best work. The author builds out a queasy magical realist playground through which he pursues an unrelenting exploration of pessimism; the series is heavy with themes of absurdism, psychosis, abandonment, the destruction of innocence and self-nullification. So you know, just the fun stuff.
How about you?
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