El Màgic d'Oz (1900)

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country be it ever so beautiful, there is no place like home” ( )

One which has been on my To Do list since I was 13..and finally read it on my Kindle.
Fresh, imaginative.
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I'm not a huge fan of the Wizard of Oz having had to watch it pretty much every freaking christmas since time began... wait what?.. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is on the other station!.. no.. NO.. i take it back i love Wizard of Oz.. noooo i'm not watching Charlie and the god damn Chocolate Factory again!!... ahem! :P
Sorry were was i? Oh yes..
I'm not a huge fan of the Wizard of Oz but i was interested in seeing how the source faired in comparison. Normally there are quite a few differences in an adaptation but not so in this case. Yes there are some minor additions in the book but nothing particularly memorable.
As for changes, pretty much all of those made for the film are minor improvements. The wish giving scenes being particularly funny in the book and not in a good way ;) Dutch courage!, might as well have given him a gun like in Futurama :lol.
Overall nothing too exciting but now that i have this out of the way i can try some of the sequels which might prove more interesting. ( )

Heard as audiobook. Interesting and numerous differences from the movie.

Librivox ( )

A very cute little book. I read this before as a child but it has been quite some time. I always forget how this book can seem quite different from the movie in some parts. It is actually much more similar to the play version that my class did when I was in 4th grade. This book is cute and fun and very nostalgic for many. It is obvious for a younger audience and some parts are less exciting than I remember them being but that's to be expected. I still really enjoyed this and it was nice to read something a bit more lighthearted. ( )