author: John Joseph Adams
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2013/06/08
date added: 2013/06/08
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review:
Oz Reimagined is a fine collection of stories. While each has a vague familiarity, they play out more like alternate realities, reusing and reshaping familiar landscapes and characters in quite satisfying ways.
Some stories feel familiar, and some vary in unusual ways. The Oz story is played out during the Chinese Revolution or in a mental hospital. Dorothy revisits the land after many years to find things unchanged and waiting, or vastly changed based on the course her life took. To say more would be to spoil your journey.
The variety of stories is really amazing and makes it fun to discover what's around the next corner. I appreciated that some of the stories used lesser known, or wholly made up, inhabitants of Oz, but the well known ones are very visible, although often altered from your memory.
I loved this anthology of stories about Oz. It's a place in my imagination and memory, and this book serves both well.
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