Review: For once the movie is better than the book.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
The book is okay but is not as well written as I thought it would be. The first book (the one that was made into a movie) seemed lacking in some details and was overly detailed in other areas.  It was the best of the books I have read. The rest of the books (I've read 5) are amateurish. I especially dislike that he has Dorothy not speaking correct English. It doesn't add to the book and it is irritating to read 'spectable instead of respectable. Just my opinion.There are many more characters than one would ever imagine. They all are able to talk.  A sawhorse, a chicken, a tiger, tiny piglets, a mechanical man, etc.  Dorothy has a way to get back and forth to OZ and other magical lands. Sometimes the adventures are with the scarecrow, tinman and lion but often not. She and her friends get into and out of scrapes. Just not very interesting to me. Maybe if I were younger...