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The Emerald City of Oz

(Oz #6)

L. Frank Baum

3.87 · Rating details · 9,608 ratings · 442 reviews

The Emerald City is built all of beautiful marbles in which are set a profusion of emeralds, every one exquisitely cut and of very great size. There are other jewels used in the decorations inside the houses and palaces, such as rubies, diamonds, sapphires, amethysts and turquoises. But in the streets and upon the outside of the buildings only emeralds appear, from which c ...more

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Dec 28, 2015 Evgeny rated it liked it

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The book consists of two completely different plotlines that kind of converge in the end with "kind of" being the key word.

Plotline 1: Dorothy finally realized it would be a good idea to bring her aunt and uncle to the Land of Oz. She was made a princess of that land several books ago, but waited for a while before realizing it might be a good idea to bring her only living relatives to the magic place. Actually she waited until her uncle's health became so bad he could not work on his farm anym The book consists of two completely different plotlines that kind of converge in the end with "kind of" being the key word.

Plotline 1: Dorothy finally realized it would be a good idea to bring her aunt and uncle to the Land of Oz. She was made a princess of that land several books ago, but waited for a while before realizing it might be a good idea to bring her only living relatives to the magic place. Actually she waited until her uncle's health became so bad he could not work on his farm anymore. For this reason I would call Dorothy to be a little slow in the mental department, even considering her age.

This part was amusing at times and the new creatures encountered by Dorothy and her adoptive parents were highly imaginative and amusing. Dorothy's favorite pastime is to get lost and end up in the Land of Oz and here is no exception. This time she manage to get lost in Oz itself.
Dorothy

By the way it might look cute, but the episode where she ended up hungry in a country of living gingerbread and insisted to eat some of its inhabitants stroke me as very disturbing.

Plotline 2: The Nome King who was put to shame in front of his subjects by Dorothy and Co. in one of the previous books decided to take his revenge upon the inhabitants of the land of Oz. He enlisted some evil creatures to aid him and found the way to cross the impassable desert which separates Oz from the rest of the world.

This one had so much potential, all wasted in the end. The beloved rules of Oz, princess Ozma did not even try to resist the invaders knowing in advance they would kill her mortal subjects and make slaves out of the immortal ones. Nice care for the people who adore her, by the way.
Ozma

This part was resolved by a heavy use of a typical Deux Ex Machina in the very end.

L. Frank Baum wanted to finish the series with this book and it is very clearly shows here; we all know that he changed his mind later and wrote many more of the books of the series. The only reason I rated this one with 3 stars instead of more deserved 2 is the fact that I read the book twice. I did my reread to refresh my memory for the review and for the next book (I only read first six the first time around). ...more

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Oct 30, 2018 Paul E. Morph rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-read-in-2018

So... many... puns! I think I've been near punned to death...

This would've made a nice end to the Oz series if Baum'd stuck to his guns and not written any more. Still, thousands of demanding fans and an emptying bank account are difficult to ignore... ...more

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Jun 20, 2011 Emily rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: juvenile, fiction, read-aloud-to-boys, classics

I liked The Emerald City of Oz a bit better than the last two. There was still an element of characters taking a trip just so Mr. Baum can show off all the other ideas he has for interesting creatures (Look! These ones are living jigsaw puzzles! And over here we have animated flatware! And these people can't stop talking!) but on the whole there was more plot than we've seen for a few books.

First of all, there was some actual evil in the form of the Nome King and his General Guph. And there was ...more

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Nov 07, 2017 Tarissa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Aunt Em and Uncle Henry have arrived in Oz -- what fun!!

Not only that, but Dorothy and friends get to lead the newcomers to various places around the Land of Oz, and meet some of the most fascinating peoples. My favorites may have the been the living kitchen utensils of Utensia... what wit these people exhibited!

Another intriguing point in this story is that Baum obviously intended for this to be the final book. Lo and behold, his readers didn't allow it. But this makes for a great "Reichenbach ...more

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Sep 01, 2007 Marley rated it it was amazing

Wow! Baum totally woke himself up out of the daze he'd been in for a couple of books and comes up with an awesome set of villains, some real sense of _stakes_ (not since "Ozma" had he really gone for that), this great country mouse/city mouse stuff with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry IN OZ, and even a cool quasi-ending to the series...though of course we know that wouldn't last. ...more

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Jan 24, 2021 Joe rated it liked it

This is the sixth book in the Oz series so time for a recap:

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz- ****

The classic one. Also the most violent in the spirit of an old-fashioned fairy tale. The writing isn't as sharp as a few of the sequels, but the setup, otherworldly feel and clever lessons about self-criticism make this a timeless tale.

The Marvelous Land of Oz- ****1/2

The funny one. Baum writes in the introduction how much he enjoyed the comic portrayals of The Scarecrow and Tin Woodsman put on by popular ...more

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Apr 05, 2017 Sara Santos rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-i-read-in-2017, classics, oz-books

Not as good as the last book.

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Mar 08, 2019 Abigail rated it liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Oz Fans

Shelves: childrens-fiction, sweet-youth, childrens-fantasy, oziana

Originally published in 1910, this sixth entry in L. Frank Baum's Oz series alternates between two main story-lines. In the first, Dorothy, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry confront hard times at home in Kansas, with poor weather and Uncle Henry's worsening health threatening the family farm, which is shortly to be repossessed by the bank. Dorothy is encouraged by her aunt and uncle to escape to her fairyland (which her elderly relatives only partially believe in), but with Ozma's help she brings them to Originally published in 1910, this sixth entry in L. Frank Baum's Oz series alternates between two main story-lines. In the first, Dorothy, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry confront hard times at home in Kansas, with poor weather and Uncle Henry's worsening health threatening the family farm, which is shortly to be repossessed by the bank. Dorothy is encouraged by her aunt and uncle to escape to her fairyland (which her elderly relatives only partially believe in), but with Ozma's help she brings them to live with her in Oz, where they all will henceforth make their permanent home. After meeting Oz's girl ruler and seeing the Emerald City, they set out with some companions on a tour of the land, seeing some unique villages and settlements. Meanwhile, in the second story-line, the Nome King, still smarting from his defeat at the hands of Ozma and her friends in Ozma of Oz , decides that the beautiful fairy-land must be conquered and its people enslaved. His new general, Guph, hits upon a cunning scheme: the nomes will dig a tunnel under the terrible desert that protects Oz, and thereby invade the country. Enlisting the help of three terrible bands of evil creatures - the Whimsies, the Growleywogs, and the Phanfasms (a type of Erb) - the Nomes grow ever closer to their goal. Not unexpectedly, these two story-lines eventually converge at the end of the book, as the Ozites confront their invaders in the gardens of Ozma's palace...

I always enjoyed certain aspects of The Emerald City of Oz as a girl, happy in the knowledge that Dorothy was finally in Oz to stay, and that in the end she didn't need to choose between Uncle Henry and Aunt Em and her magical friends and their marvelous land. I also always appreciated the many entertaining puns Baum employed in depicting his various new characters. The chapters devoted to Utensia, a settlement of living kitchen implements, and to Bunbury, a village of living pastries, stand out in this regard. That said, I have always felt (and continued to do so on this rereading) that the author ignored a rather significant plot hole in his story of the invading Nome army and their allies. Namely, that Ozma had only to use her Magic Belt (originally the Nome King's, and a major motivation for the invasion) to wish her enemies back to their own countries. This is, in fact, what she does at the end. Of course this wouldn't have been a long-term solution, as Oz's enemies would not have been reformed, and would have continued to wish her ill, but given the fact that Ozma was considering closing the borders to Oz permanently, it would have worked well enough. Leaving that rather glaring inconsistency of story aside, this is still an entertaining entry in the series, one which Baum clearly envisioned as the final chapter. Clearly that wasn't meant to be... ...more

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Apr 17, 2017 Line Bookaholic rated it really liked it

Dorothy’s Aunt and Uncle are in trouble at the farm. They do not have enough money to pay everything and they might be expulsed. Dorothy says to them they could go and live in Oz with her and Ozma agrees to that. So, once again, we found ourselves in the beautiful Land of Oz where Dorothy is going to live some great adventures and meet some new people.

Like every time I read an Oz story, I’m amazed at how funny it is. This seems like it was the last story about Oz but I know there are many others ...more

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Nov 05, 2017 Wendy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, five-star

This was one of the best Oz books!!! Dorothy's aunt and uncle move to Oz! They tour the land without knowing that the evil Nome king is tunneling right under them! When Dorothy gets back they fight off the Nome king and all is well......for now. ...more

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May 26, 2017 Garrett Zecker rated it liked it

Doma Publishing's Wizard of Oz collection has taken me several years to read with my son at bedtime. It was interesting revisiting the texts that I read swiftly through my youth, as I was about his age when I read them and remembered little beyond some of the characters that don't appear in any of the books. I picked up a copy of this version since, for 99c, I could have the complete series along with "All the original artwork by the great illustrator W.W. Denslow (over 1,000 classic illustratio ...more

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May 02, 2018 Madeline rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens, buddy-read, classics-i-read

3.5 star

Working my way through the Oz stories with my reading buddy.

The Emerald City of Oz started out very funny and entertaining with its great wordplay.

Then the story took a little turn to the darker side.....lol

Overall, a cute tale.

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Feb 05, 2020 Patti aka Sils(bycarr) Patterson rated it it was ok

The usual relentless meandering and by now you know there is nothing at stake because it will all be resolved in five minutes while Ozma shrugs. At the end, Baum stares there will be no more stories from Oz, but we still have EIGHT books to go. yikes.

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Feb 08, 2012 Shoshana rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: people who like fun!

Shelves: classics, fantasy, old-favorite

Even though this book is mainly just Dorothy and friends wandering around Oz while the Nome King builds an army and a tunnel and no one does anything about it, I actually really like it a lot. I enjoy discovering the Flutterbudgets and Utensils and Bunburyans and Bunnyburyans and especially the Fuddles and Cuttenclips, not to mention the Whimsies. Oh, the Whimsies. They "had large, strong bodies, but heads so small that they were no bigger than door-knobs. Of course, such tiny heads could not co Even though this book is mainly just Dorothy and friends wandering around Oz while the Nome King builds an army and a tunnel and no one does anything about it, I actually really like it a lot. I enjoy discovering the Flutterbudgets and Utensils and Bunburyans and Bunnyburyans and especially the Fuddles and Cuttenclips, not to mention the Whimsies. Oh, the Whimsies. They "had large, strong bodies, but heads so small that they were no bigger than door-knobs. Of course, such tiny heads could not contain any great amount of brains, and the Whimsies were so ashamed of their personal appearance and lack of commonsense that they wore big heads made of pasteboard," which they decorate with pastel wool and large bright eyes. Baum is in top form here - as are my favorite characters:

Billina, we discover, has had eleven children and named them all Dorothy (until two disobliged her by turning out roosters and she renamed them Daniel - funny, since back in Ozma of Oz she didn't see the point in changing her name from Bill when she discovered to be female) - and she has an additional 86 grandchildren and over three hundred great grandchildren, all of whom are ALSO named Dorothy and Daniel! I love Billina.

And then there's Aunt Em. Part of what makes this one so good is Aunt Em's cranky, down-to-earth, back-to-reality commentary as she adjusts to life in Oz (Uncle Henry, who adapts better even though he originally had the most doubts, is less interesting, though amusingly placid). And I wondered where Dorothy got her combination of intrepidity and placidity! Upon first encountering the Cowardly Lion, Aunt Em decides to "eye that lion out o' countenance and save [their] lives," at which point she "turned upon the Lion a determined countenance and a wild dilated eye" until he becomes so uncomfortable that he asks if she's all right. Aunt Em is fierce!

She is also the only skeptical person in the bunch. "I gave him some sawdust brains the last time I fitted his head with new ears," the Wizard explains about the intelligent Sawhorse. "'The sawdust was made from hard knots, and now the Sawhorse is able to think out any knotty problem he meets with.'
'I see,' said Uncle Henry.
'I don't," remarked Aunt Em; but no one paid any attention to this statement."

Aunt Em might be my favorite character in this whole series.

Then there's the weird part where Ozma notices the Nome King building a tunnel to the Emerald City and proceeds to do absolutely nothing and for a long time tell nobody about it. What? Finally our friends discover this pretty alarming situation and confront her, whereupon she laughs "with genuine amusement" and says, "Why, that has not troubled me a bit!" The prospect of the country she rules being conquered by a villainous army has not troubled her? What is the matter with her?!? "Perhaps it is more seirous than I imagined.... but I haven't given the matter much thought. After dinner we will all meet together and talk it over." Are you kidding me?

I mean, I get that she's a pacifist (more on that in a moment), but you'd think she'd at least have thought about the situation!

The pacifism is great, though. Ozma is completely adamant that no one has the right to hurt other living creatures in any way (which is a weird juxtaposition to Dorothy's cavalier attitude about eating the Bunburyans). Oz also happens to be explicitly communist (although Baum does append his description of their politics with the caveat that it might not work in the real world): "There were no poor people in the Land of Oz, because there was no such thing as money, and all property of every sort belonged to the Ruler.... Each person was given freely by his neighbors whatever he required for his use, which is as much as any one may reasonably desire.... Each man or woman, no matter what he or she produced for the good of the community, was supplied by the neighbors with food and clothing and a house and furniture and ornaments and games. If by chance the supply ever ran short, more was taken from the great storehouses of the Ruler, which were afterward filled up again when there was more of any article than the people needed." I feel nice knowing that I'm in the company of good old leftists.

One last fault of this book, though, and it's a frustrating one, is their difficulty figuring out how to turn away the invaders. YOU HAVE THE FREAKING MAGIC BELT. USE IT TO SEND THEM ALL HOME. In fact, the Nome King plots about how once he gets the magic belt he'll use it to send his allies home if they turn against him, and in fact Ozma uses it at the end to send them all home after they have been incapacitated! Why not use it from the beginning? But no, we have to suspend our disbelief about a very convenient coincidence that allows for a more complex plan to be put in action. It heightens the suspense a little, I guess, but it is pretty irritating.

And it's pretty much the only thing that keeps this book from a full five-star rating. I wish I could give it a four and a half, because it's better than the other Oz books I've given fours. Oh, well! ...more

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Oct 15, 2019 Illiterate rated it it was ok · review of another edition

When I was young, I could have used Latin pills.

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Dec 29, 2014 Grace rated it really liked it

Shelves: kids-books-for-all-ages, fantasy-sci-fi-comics

Baum originally intended this to be the final Oz book. That didn't work at all, of course, but this book has a very definitive conclusion that's obviously intended to end the entire series. As far as ending a saga goes, he did a good job (even though it didn't last).

This book had more a plot than some, and it had an actual antagonist. The Nome King is a full-on bad guy, and Baum developed this story-telling element a step further by having two separate plots (the adventures of Dorothy, and the s ...more

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Sep 15, 2007 Lori Anderson rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, for-zack

My son is six and we've been reading all the Oz books. They've done wonders for his reading comprehension and for his ability to just sit still and let me read three chapters at a time and have him actually understand and remember night to night what happened!

This book is where L. Frank Baum finally seems to get tired of writing about Oz and Dorothy and tidies everything up and says goodbye. Yet there are more books. We haven't picked up the next one yet (but will tonight) so I'm not sure what t ...more

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Feb 13, 2019 Ellen rated it liked it

I admit that re-reading all these books in chronological order has really revealed how confusing the moral core of these books is. Just in the last book Ozma put a literal kitten on trial and subsequently ordered said kitten's execution - but this book, Ozma refuses to fight what seems to be an objectively evil invading army, because it would be very wrong to harm anyone for any reason. Meanwhile, Dorothy ends up in a land where the people are made of baked goods and before leaving she angrily t ...more

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Mar 08, 2019 Tinka rated it it was ok

Shelves: book-series, classics, kindle, ozathon, read-in-english, 2-stars-kinda-meh

#OzAThon Book 6

In my mind, I constantly compare Baum to a Post-Reichenbach Fall Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in the sense of "I'm fucking tired to write these books, but fans just demand more and more". Doyle suffered from a well-known Holmes-fatigue and Baum seems to suffer from Oz-fatigue at this point. And really, who can blame him? He never made it a secret that he intended The Wonderful Wizard as a standalone novel with not ambition to turn it into a series and yet did it anyways because childre ...more

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Dec 26, 2020 Hadi Naboulsi rated it it was amazing

Good way to start a winter break!
That sequel had actual plots and allies engaging in warfare, and that's too exciting.
The phanphasms (finally met those), the whimsies, the growleywogs, General Guph and the Nomes, all plotting to take vengeance on Ozma and her good people... Too much to handle.
Nonetheless, it kept with its classic balad throughout the kingdom, and with Dorothy's instinctive colonial conduct. (She blamed the Bunburies for not feeding her, because they're made of buns perhaps... I ...more

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Feb 23, 2021 Peter rated it it was amazing

In 2019 I read the first five Oz books, and for Christmas of 2020 I was gifted a beautiful hardcover collection of the 14 original Oz books by L. Frank Baum, which as a bonus includes “The Royal Book of Oz” Which was initially published under Baums name however was actually written by his successor who continued the Oz series after his death, Ruth Plumly Thompson.

The 6th book, The Emerald City of Oz, is a magical tour of the world of Oz and the many imaginative things in it. My favorite being th ...more

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Nov 20, 2020 prcardi added it · review of another edition

Shelves: series, fantasy, childrens, read-aloud

I cannot tell if L. Frank Baum is a genius or a quack. The plot is so often meandering and aimless, and the creations and scenarios are ridiculous, but the three listeners between the ages of seven and eleven found places to laugh, cried out in frustration when a chapter ended without all the answers given, and cheered the resolution. These books seem so very dumb; but children--as he himself notes in the foreward--seem to delight in them.

For a time, I thought this was going to be better writte ...more

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May 25, 2020 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2020

If not quite a full return to form (volumes 1 & 2), this one is certainly a step up from the preceding two books, and on a par with volume 3. Having Dorothy's family travel to Oz makes for some amusing scenes, and in a way solidifies the fairyland's existence. The recruitment of the baddies by the Nome King's General Guph was inventive, and though the invasion of these sundry evil forces of the Emerald City is handled in a hand-wavy fashion, Ozma's staunch message of non-violence is appreciated. ...more

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Sep 11, 2017 Bobby Toskey rated it it was ok

This was better than the previous two. There was an antagonist, and it seemed to be building toward something. Ultimately, the antagonist did very little, and the story was mostly Dorothy and her friends walking around, meeting new people.

It wasn't hard to get through, as the characters Dorothy comes across are interesting enough, but there is very little to sink your teeth into with this story. ...more

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May 21, 2017 morgan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2017, fiction

I want to live in Utensia.

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May 02, 2018 Alexandra rated it really liked it

Shelves: my-kindle-books, classics, series, buddy-reads, children-s-books

4.5 Stars. Lots of fun new places and people in this one!

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Nov 05, 2019 Tara rated it really liked it

I truly loved the interesting storyline in this one and the adorable conclusion. My son (6)found it particularly engaging to foow the varying story lines.

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Sep 27, 2019 Jon E rated it it was amazing

I liked the chapter "The Tin Woodman Told the Sad News", I liked in the chapter when the Tin Woodman told that the Gnome King was sending other gnomes and like other fighter people to destroy the Land of Oz. ...more

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Feb 10, 2017 Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) rated it liked it

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I don't remember reading this in the past but I must have done, because parts of it were so familiar. You have to understand, I have a kind of eidetic memory for children's books--whole passages come back to me. If I listen to an "unabridged" audiobook of something I read decades ago, the cuts will trip me up every time, even if it's just a line or two. There were things I didn't remember at all, and things that were so familiar I began to wonder if someone, somewhere had handed me an abridgemen I don't remember reading this in the past but I must have done, because parts of it were so familiar. You have to understand, I have a kind of eidetic memory for children's books--whole passages come back to me. If I listen to an "unabridged" audiobook of something I read decades ago, the cuts will trip me up every time, even if it's just a line or two. There were things I didn't remember at all, and things that were so familiar I began to wonder if someone, somewhere had handed me an abridgement at some point, or some unscrupulous publisher had patched passages from this book into one of the other two Oz stories I read. (You think it doesn't happen? It does, or at least did.)

Baum meant this to be the last-ever Oz chronicle, and his weariness with the main characters and the whole Oz setup shows. It happens--Christie grew to hate Poirot, and by the second Anne Shirley novel, L. M. Montgomery wrote to a friend that she wished she'd never created her. Baum still creates fun Oz tribes, such as the jigsaw people and the bread and cookie folks, but there's no connection--and a lot of the tribes really aren't people you'd want to know or spend time with.

Other reviewers have noted that there's a very "benign communist dictatorship" flavour to the Oz books after the first. I'll go along with that, particularly in this volume. The Scarecrow and Tin Man are supposedly "emperors" of their respective regions, but they're really just puppet leaders who answer to Ozma for everything of any importance, rather like some of the old iron-curtain nations. Ozma is an absolute ruler, for all she is repeatedly described as "lovely, fresh and girlish". She spies on her adoring people using her magic picture and Glinda's magic book, and knows all, sees all, decides all. Oz has no currency, and all land belongs to Ozma, who treats her subjects like little children (though apparently she will never age past about 16 or so). Nobody can tell her nothing cause Mummy knows best. It was okay for her and Dorothy to take away (ie steal) the Gnome King's magic belt, cause he's a baddy! But if he wants to get it back, that's invasion. Well, yeah, it actually is, the way he does it. But then he knows it's the only way he could remotely have a chance of getting it back. The Oz diet is obviously vegetarian, they seem to live on cakes and fruit and waffles or bread or whatever, and cold milk. To feed the hungry masses, everyone grows huge crops of wheat! Of course it's a sexless society (being for kids and all), to the point that the only "romance" that happens is between the Scarecrow and Scraps in The Patchwork Girl of Oz--two nonhuman characters with no danger of...well, anything really. Billina the Hen has managed to raise eleven chickens of her own with nary a rooster around, though I assume that her male and female progeny did things the old fashioned way. Maybe not, cause that would be, like, you know--incest. When Oz comes under attack, the solution is (view spoiler) I dunno, it just kinda creeped me out.

Oz is sooo perfect that in the end they want to shut it off from all outside contact by rendering it invisible. Well it didn't work for the Kims of Korea, and it didn't work for Baum either.

GR in its infinite wisdumb has decided that I've read this book 3 times. I certainly haven't since joining this community, but whatever. ...more

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Jul 01, 2020 Richard Seltzer rated it really liked it

I read this out loud to my kids.

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