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Narnia, what did you think of Wicked? I've been noticing it on the shelf for a few weeks now, and I remember my mom recommending it when it first came out, but it's never *quite* managed to be the book I take home.
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I just read Wicked a few weeks ago after Kat posted something on here about the soundtrack. I would definately recommend it to anyone. I loved getting to see another side of the wicked witch. But I got so much more than that out of it and was very impressed. The political motivations of different characters fascinated me.
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I read Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles when I was 11 and couldn't stop. I also had a rather good background in classic fairy tales by then and it was like the next step for me. Of course, there was "Star Trek" (classic, of course) and my dad read SF and fantasy so the influence was always in the house.
Why do I read SF? Is it to be cool? No. I read it for enjoyment and to challenge myself. There's some really bad stuff out there, but there is some really amazing craft going on in the genre that keeps me reading. If I can't find something that moves me in the newly released stuff, I can always, always find one of my classic faves--Bradbury (the man who taught me how to craft my very first short stories in middle school), Pohl (I learned the beginnings of character craft from him), Asimov (where do I begin?)--and read them again, knowing I will learn something new and wonderful.
Now I'm raising my own daughter (she'll be 11 in January) to love and appreciate SF. She is treated by some of her classmates as daft, but I've taught her that geeks rule the world and one day she will be their boss. haha Incidentally, one of her gateways into SF has been A Wrinkle in Time .
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