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    <body><![CDATA[To be honest... I'm getting frustrated with Maguire.  His first book in the series (Wicked) has received national (if not global) acclaim, as it rightly should.  I was originally entranced by Maguire's ability to reinvent Oz while still keeping the classical whimsical elements alive, in fact fleshin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36393644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gregory Maguire wrote a terrific book called &quot;Wicked&quot; that I liked a lot and that spawned a Broadway musical that bore only a passing resemblance to it, but was also terrific.  He couldn't leave well enough alone and wrote a sequel, &quot;Son of a Witch&quot; that was really bizarre and a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40879985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So. The third book in what's now referred to as The Wicked Years. Alright. I adore Wicked, both in its written and musical forms. Son of a Witch was a decent sequel. And I was really excited when I learned that we'd get the Lion's perspective in all this. <br/><br/>Brrr is on Emerald City business...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42480238">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really love Gregory Maguire's writing style, and I love where he has gone with this story over the three novels.  The structure of this book, however, felt somewhat scattered--it wasn't until the end, the last few chapters, where I started to feel that it had any coherency, unlike in <em>Son of a Witc...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30194085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The third book in Maguire's return to Oz fills in some gaps in the ongoing storyline, and has a few moments, but overall falls short of the entrancing epic of &quot;Wicked.&quot;<br/>I enjoyed the book, and am glad to have read it, but wouldn't put it in the 'classic' status like &quot;Wicked&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51493496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Considering how much I enjoyed Wicked, and how much more I enjoyed Son of a Witch, I found A Lion Among Men disappointing. I was all geared up to find out what happens with Liir and you-know-what-from-the-end-of-Son of a Witch, but the third book in this series barely mentions him. Instead, this boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41370240">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maguire is a fantastic world builder and blew audiences away with Wicked back in 1995.  Lion continues in this tradition, but offers no characters that differ greatly from those in Wicked.  Maguire has a tendency of making all his characters very similar:  Incredibly pessimistic and overly verbose. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40702226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me ages to get into this book.  It's not the best of the series by far.  I didn't even Like Brr or Yackle.  You do learn a lot more about Yackle though.  It is funny in parts too.  The ending left room for more books. Eh...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Wicked&quot; was fantastically drawn, while at the same time intriguingly vague and introspective.  In my opinion it was a masterpiece.  &quot;Son of a Witch&quot; and now &quot;A Lion Among Men&quot; only make blind attempts at creating the same mystique; they stumble along the way and end up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39074905">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After the rushed feeling of &quot;Son of a Witch&quot;, MacGuire redeems himself with this novel... it made me feel as if some wounds were healed for both the reader and the characters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Disenchanted. That's what I am with Gregory Maguire. This book is almost completely backstory; we learn nothing more about Liir and Tristam and Candle and the new arrival. The part of the story that does advance moves only about 3 inches, and it was no mystery who the handmaiden of the clock is anyw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41348154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Arg!  Just finished this last night, and it has the same curse as &quot;Son of a Witch,&quot; in that it reveals just so much, but leaves you with so many more questions.  I'd really hoped, for the satement of my curiosity, that this would be the last book, in which all is revealed.  But, no.  Which...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41829741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third book in the Wicked series and follows the Cowardly Lion as everybody keeps reminding him. Interestingly enough he is a misunderstood Animal who cannot seem to fit in the human world, nor the Animal world so playing on the feelings both societies have for him he acts as a spy to fin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29844653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i loved this. maguire writes in a way that really attaches the reader to the characters. the characters or fully realized with little idiosynchracies and foibles. this wasn't as interesting as his second &quot;wicked&quot; novel as i believe the second seemed to be more of a set up for something els...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35573605">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll start this out simple; Maguire has yet to equal the writing he exhibited in <em>Wicked</em>.  This being said, A Lion Among Men was a much stronger novel than <em>Son of a Witch</em>.  <br/><br/>I don't get the sense that Maguire's writing abilities have improved since <em>Wicked</em> was published.  Fortunately, he cr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50843534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why does Gregory McGuire insist on wirting about &quot;heros&quot; that you don't want to root for?  He made the lion so repugnant, that I lost interest in the story after a few pages.  The only reason I continued on was in some hopes that he would take all the loose ends that he created in his firs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50396375">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brrr seeks out Yackle and the Grimmerie in a quest for answers and leads to his own past.  Despite some criticism, I believe I liked A Lion Among Men better than Son of a Witch.  While Son of a Witch continued the story of Wicked, it answered no questions about the strange occurrences in Wicked and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49387172">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By this book, there is little doubt in mind that Maguire captivates me in one of 3 ways. His prose, his painstaking abilities in Character definition, and a philosophical subtext which leaves one rapt through mid-novel portions that otherwise would have been tedious.<br/>Just when everyone thought ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48868419">more...</a>]]></body>
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