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A Lion Among Men
- The Wicked Years, Volume 3
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 12 hrs
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Publisher's Summary
While civil war looms in Oz, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, a figure known as Brrr - the Cowardly Lion - arrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Abandoned as a cub, his path from infancy is no Yellow Brick Road. In the wake of laws that oppress talking animals, he avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the warmongering Emperor of Oz.
A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. Can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquets to claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they're skinned alive?
Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- RavenHarte
- 05-02-09
Disappointed
OOOoh this book was so disappointing to me. I know it is about the "Cowardly Lion" but my god this thing is whiney and depressing. ALL the charecters in this book are completely self-absorbed and "whoa is me". It doesnt do "Wicked" justice at all.
My advice, skip this one - you wont learn anything new about Elphaba or Glinda and it doesnt continue the story from "Son of a Witch" except to give a brief overview of what happened in that book and supposition at the VERY end of the book. BLAH what a waste of time
13 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Michael
- 14-01-10
Gregory and John Together Again
I have to agree with the outstanding reviews of the novel. For those who didn't receive closure in this book, it's very important to understand that not everything has closure and that's what I appreciate about Gregory Maguire's Wicked novels. They always leave me wanting more of the story (which for me seems like a very smart thing to do from an author's stand point).
This book is from another viewpoint of a character from Baum's original creation of characters. He opens another world for us as insight on a more feasible less childlike version of the original with "real" problems and "real" characters.
Further, I love that John McDonough is narrating this 3rd installment. He narrated the Wicked and it was fantastic. Son of a Witch was narrated by Gregory Maguire himself, and while I think this was a great novelty, I much prefer the development that McDonough has put into the characters.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has a love for Wicked or it's predecessors.
9 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Christopher
- 01-12-08
One of Gregory's Best
Gregory returns to his best form with this book. I enjoyed this book as much as the original volume Wicked. The characters are vivid, fully formed, and deep. The prose is some of his best. A must listen/read.
The production of the book was only OK though. There are a few music interludes in the book of about 15 seconds each. I never did figure out why they were there and what they represented. There were several instances where the story broke off to start a new thread, these transitions were often abrupt and it was unclear that a scene transition occured. Other than that the story was well read and told. I just felt the editing of the story was a bit haphazard.
6 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Rbtmw
- 14-11-08
Fantastic
This is the third book in the "Wicked Cycle" series by Gregory Maguire, and it is fantastic. The story is entertaining and the narrator (also narrated Wicked) does an excellent job.
6 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Pie
- 05-03-10
A very BIG story...
It's funny, but for such simply told stories (in many ways) ...the depth of detail accumulates very quietly. The story is BIG and it is ushered forwards from a different characters perspective in each book in the series. It's not simply a re-visiting of the neighborhood of a previously told story... it's a forwarding of a much bigger story. And before I knew it, ...the story had acquired a LOT of very rich details along the way. It's Elpheba's story, and Leer's too, and Ozma's ...and the Cumberland Witch's, ...and... Yackel, and Brrrrr.... , and.... Nor, ...and ...Shell, ...and... (Note: since this is all "audible" ...I really don't know how to spell these names correctly <lol>).
5 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Listener
- 23-10-09
very touching
Can't quite relate to the bad reviews. I was very touched by this story. I want to scratch him under the chin. I've read WICKED and this one and like this one just fine. The lion is endearing, pitiable, likable, sympathetic and finally heroic.
4 people found this helpful
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- MaryD Hausman
- 30-12-11
Love this continuation of Wicked!
Great story & narration-- but PLEASE -- NO MUSIC!!!! It's so distracting it really messes up the flow of the story. It is unnecessary and even disturbing. The story is great, well written, typical McGuire brilliance, nuance and humor. Narrator very very good! The music interspersed is the only downside to this audio book.
3 people found this helpful
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- Sammie T
- 14-03-19
great continuation
The third book and a series. Though it is based on the Lion's story many other character lines are continued. A very good read.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Jere
- 19-05-09
Not bad, but not good
Not bad as a read, but no where near the quality or stories of Maguires first two Oz books.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Alexis
- 13-11-08
Great
I like this book and hope he writes more about OZ
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- Caemlyn Louise Boddy
- 01-08-22
If you love wicked keep going through the series
I love love love this series of books and it just gets better and more interesting the further along you go. I love the narrator too.
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- Loretta.
- 18-02-23
A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
I have really enjoyed these books and I hope these are more to the series Thank you Gregory Maguire
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- Anonymous User
- 12-12-18
3 down 1 to go
The 3rd book in the Wicked years series. Lion among men is an interesting story about espionage and the moral obligations thrust onto someone with little choice. The lion Brrr is on a constant search for who he is while the denizens of OZ are defining that for him. Alone in the world, his story is quite sad (not unlike every character in this series).
He finds himself in court and on parole on the proviso that he gains information on the whereabouts of the Grimmerie. This leads him to interview Yackle while the war between Munchkinland and the Emerald City rages.
Despite the book not being as action packed, it picks up at the end when everything starts coming together. I really enjoyed the last few chapters the most. The first part of the book was a mish mash of historic interviews from the lion and mother Yackle.
I'm glad I got through this one, now I can start the final novel!