I’ve started reading the Wizard of Oz series.

^ The guy does a funny bit at the beginning in drag as both Dorothy and Glinda getting into a conflict in Munchkinland.

i like the books where Ozma is revealed, and the later book with the Nome King.

Yes, I've started to listen to the series through audiobooks. They're very interesting, so much more so than the 1939 film

I read a lot but not all. The books were very enjoyable and really expanded upon OZ. My favorites are “Ozma of Oz” (a great deal of which was adapted into “Return to Oz”) and “The Emerald City of Oz” and “The Patchwork Girl of Oz.”

And those John R. Neill art nouveau illustrations are gorgeous. They were very muddy in the mass market Del Rey paperbacks of the 70s and 80s but so beautiful when in a larger book format. W.W. Denslow’s illustrations in the original book are good but not as good as Neill.

Great John R. Neill art.

It was all a fucking dream!!!

W. W. Denslow illustrated the first book.

Gen Z cancelled Baum because he hated those savage Indians.

Which I mentioned in my post, R7.

No one, ever. You’re the first, OP.

About 25 years ago, the children’s bookstore in NYC, Books of Wonder, released facsimiles of all the Baum Oz books including the metallic green ink used for the color plates in “The Emerald City of Oz”. I bought them all and am glad as they stopped with the metallic ink after about a year.

And then that book store has to move locations! Thanks R11

The second book, The Marvellous Land of Oz, got its own fairly faithful film adaptation from director/writer Barry Mahon, who made his name in the sixties doing soft-core pornography and sleazy low-budget exploitation. He brings that sensibility and aesthetic to Oz.

The opening musical number sets the tone, which I would characterize as queasy.

I found most of the Oz books in our local library many decades ago as a pre-teen after accidentally finding Ozma of Oz. I picked up all the books in the last few years and have enjoyed re-reading them.

My mom had the entire set in her childhood (in the 1920s), so we inherited them and enjoyed them in our childhood. We left them behind in a move (they'd probably be worth a fortune today). I wouldn't choose to read them now as an adult, but I liked them when I was 8-9 years old.

Sweet baby Jesus, r13.