Although I did find "Wicked" a bit too filthy, too far removed from the original. It shocked the reader just for the fun of shocking them, which I think is cheap.
I don't know, I'm not sure that he did that for shock. I think that he needed it to be known that this is not the glamorous Oz everyone has come to know and love, and any kind of censorship (even self-censorship) would have taken away from that concept. Personally, I found Mrs. Maddingly and her cats (in
Lost) to be a lot more shocking than anything put forth in
Wicked.
Well I obviously don't know what he intended when he wrote the filthier passages, but to me they felt overdone. They were in the way, big ugly things I had to squirm past to get back to the story I enjoyed. The story itself, the turns and twists, the style and the way the characters interact (plus a completely unlikeable main character, but that's probably just me) are more than enough to convey that this is not the sacharine disney version of Oz. Really, I could've done without the image of a preacher getting kicked in the ass and shitting himself.
I dunno..I felt that the image of the double-peened puppet having sex with the mother and daughter puppet in the TimeClock was more disturbing
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