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A sequel to L. Frank Baum's Oz legend, written by Martin Gardner. For all who maintain that Oz was but a dream, Gardner proves them wrong, for in this book, Dorothy, the tin woodman and the scarecrow return to Earth with nail-biting consequences.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have read all of the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum and some of the more recent ones. I can tell you right now that this book spoiled Oz for me. I can't imagine Oz having computers and telephones. The author may have tried to recreate the land of Oz, but he did not succeed. He kept going back to different books that Baum wrote about Oz, telling about this or that, and that was basically what the first two or three chapters were about! And also, I never really got into this book as I did with the others, for me, this book wasn't Oz. Gardner may have thought he was doing a good job, but I didn't. Oz is supposed to be a magic place, if there are computers and telephones and the like, it takes the magic away. And Glinda never had Oz transported to another dimension, she made it invisible or something, not to another dimension. For people who love Oz the way Baum and the other authors depicted it, don't read this book. It really does take away from the world that Baum created and others just improved upon. Gardner shouldn't have written this book, in my opinion, it shouldn't have ever been written. Just leave Oz the way it is.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Vastly Disappointing, as much as I didn't want it to be.
30 Mar 2001
Format:Paperback
I've loved Martin Gardner's work for years. I've loved Oz for years. I /wanted/ to like his 1st Oz book, but I just couldn't. While he has interesting things to say and a few interesting characters, the levels of real-world negativity in the book were nothing short of crushing. The plot was merely adequate and the mechanics clunky. While Gardner was an Oz fan for much of his life (and a founding member of the Int'l Wizard Of Oz Club in '57, I recently discovered), it seems that he came to write his Oz book too late, after his cynicism levels had gotten too high to suppress in his writing and his sense of wonder had had just a few too many Wicked Witches attack it.
I really wanted to like this and I really didn't. (I'll also mention that the Posthumous John R. Neal Oz book, Illustrated by Eric Shanower, isn't really worth the time either, though it's not as bad.)
Sorry, Martin. :(
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Not what I would call an Oz book
2 Nov 1998
Format:Hardcover
I have read all of the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum and some of the more recent ones. I can tell you right now that this book spoiled Oz for me. I can't imagine Oz having computers and telephones. The author may have tried to recreate the land of Oz, but he did not succeed. He kept going back to different books that Baum wrote about Oz, telling about this or that, and that was basically what the first two or three chapters were about! And also, I never really got into this book as I did with the others, for me, this book wasn't Oz. Gardner may have thought he was doing a good job, but I didn't. Oz is supposed to be a magic place, if there are computers and telephones and the like, it takes the magic away. And Glinda never had Oz transported to another dimension, she made it invisible or something, not to another dimension. For people who love Oz the way Baum and the other authors depicted it, don't read this book. It really does take away from the world that Baum created and others just improved upon. Gardner shouldn't have written this book, in my opinion, it shouldn't have ever been written. Just leave Oz the way it is.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Not for purists, but fun for the rest of us
3 May 2000
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Martin Gardner has given us a delightful addition to Oziana. In this book, denizens of Oz (Dorothy, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow) come to our world via a Klein Bottle. It's unlike any previous Oz book. In it we find the Internet, the gods of Mount Olympus (Apollo "used to take the sun around the earth, but he had to stop doing this when astronomers proved that the earth went around the sun"), characters from Alice's Wonderland and Looking-Glass Land, and the bear detective Sheerluck Brown. Oz purists may disapprove of all this, but I think it's great fun. "Visitors From Oz," with its humor and originality, is one of the very best of the post-Baum/Thompson Oz books.
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