by Gregory Maguire
I liked it, quite a lot. but it is nothing like the musical! the musical is much better.
(beware the spoilers)
but.
is it just me, really? I am getting to the point where I can't stand to read a book where the main character is a woman... if it's written by a man. I know that there are a lot of "themes" in this book and symbolism.. and it sounds like Oz is Britain in the Middle Ages, the thinking is very similar. but more than that... it's more than that.
what's this about men having hot temper and women having cold temper and the only way Elphaba had both was because she was some sort of hybrid freak? I'm sorry but I guess I'm a hybrid hermaphroditic freak too because my temper can be very hot and very cold, both. as can my daughter's and then of course I've seen it in my son too... am I just imagining things?
now I will never be able to really see the man's point of view in this universe, I mean, not completely, because I am not a man. but much of this story reads like a freakin sexual fantasy. women, do your 7 or 9 year old children fondly handle your nipples and regard them as pets? because mine sure as hell do not! what the fax is that all about? that is just wrong.
and I nursed each of my kids for two years so they know what those things are for ;)
women, do you get hot while you're working and therefore take all your clothes off? because I sure as hell do not! I don't do the gardening and the housework in the buff thank you. I don't know a single woman who would remove all her clothes because she is hot. men seem to think this is what a woman would do. they want to think this. but MEN are the ones who peel their shirts off when they get hot mowing the yard or um anything. When I get hot and oh darn I stay hot! I might roll up my sleeves, but that's all sorry no show here. I don't care if I'm the only person on the planet, I am not going to take all my clothes off and prance around just because I'm hot. when I'm done, I'll take a bath. that's it. problem solved.
do any of you women walk around naked or half-naked (topless) at all, unless it's on the way to/from the bath or bed or the laundry room? because all the male authors I've ever read think that we walk around nude ALL THE LIVELONG DAY.
and then there's the constant wanting sex. how delightful it must be to come back exhausted from working all morning in the fields to find a needy lover who won't let you resist him. MEN want to think this is what women want! I'll tell you what women want. they want the man to get off his lazy ass and go help work in the fields, and if she is in the mood later, then fine, but if she is exhausted, HELLO she is EXHAUSTED and she needs some sleep! she is not your property to do with however you please! she does not get a thrill thinking that you will disregard her or treat her like a slave. this is a man's fantasy. it is a woman's nightmare.
it's just not realistic, even for a green witch and the munchkins and other females in OZ.
I am so fed up with it. does no one else feel this way? am I a freak? is this really what all you other women are thinking all the time? because if so then I'm an alien and I want to go home.
It was a GREAT book other than that! there are a million great things to say about it. but I will not read it again, nor will I read the sequels or related books. I don't have the patience for this.
in fact I am just not going to read any more male-authored stories involving female heroines. I'm going to read everything else first. then and only then will I give someone else a try. surely I'll never get that desperate, right?
I have no patience for this, I really just don't. I always feel so FREAKED OUT. this is not supposed to be a romance novel. I know sex sells but at least make it realistic!
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