Il mago di Oz

Ah such fun! I don't think I'll read the rest of the series but I did really enjoy this.

Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal, 1998

“Luckily, when the farmer made my head, one of the first things he did was to paint my ears, so that I heard what was going on.” – L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Almost a year ago to this day, I was in Chicago and waltzed into Sandmeyer’s Bookstore. Displayed was the most extraordinary c Leggi tutto

ENGLISH ( The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ) / ITALIANO Dorothy is a young girl who lives with her aunts in a small farm in Kansas. Due to a tornado, she is catapulted with her house in a freaky village... Dorothy's journey, which I discovered at 38 thanks to my daughter and to the well-established habit of Leggi tutto

I've never liked the movie. And that's my shameful secret, Random Goodreader. It terrified me that the mean neighbor was going to have Toto put down. And there was never any resolution to that when Dorothy came back from Oz! The movie just glossed over the fact that as soon as Toto set foot in Kansas Leggi tutto

The Wizard of Oz as An Economic Parable: A Short Introduction This might be common knowledge or it might not be. Some economics textbooks claim this is a wonderfully esoteric nugget: The story of Oz was an economic parable. Take that, all you who said economics can't be fun. Redistributions of wealth Leggi tutto

Currently filing a lawsuit with the Childhood Experience Department: Wondrous Fictional Classics Division over the fact that I didn't read this until I was a full-on adult. I love children's classics because they feel like eating candy that's good for you. They're sweet and fun and often magical but Leggi tutto

Once upon a time there lived a Golden Age gay icon, who whiled away her pre-waxing years sitting atop a split-rail fence in some dour, nondescript American Midwest landscape. Her dreams of a more outrageously fierce existence in the big city (wearing roller skates and one-foot-diameter afro wigs and Leggi tutto

كانوا أربعة..ولكن ليس كأي أربعة..خرجوا للبحث عما ينقصهم..لم يكتفوا بالتمني..تغلبوا على العقبات..بالكثير من الحب..وهناك في مدينة الزمرد حصلوا على ما تمنوه..ولكن بعد ان أدركوا قيمة ما لديهم شكلت تلك الرواية جزء ثابت من طفولتنا ..لمن قراها ولمن شاهد الفيلم..الابطال محملين برموزفخيال الماتة هو الفلاح ال Leggi tutto