Are the Wizard of Oz novels worth reading? Do they have the same literary influence as Alice in Wonderland? Or is any influence isolated to the movie alone?
They're picture books.
You don't read pictures. You look at them.
Read The Neverending Story instead. First half is the film then it's a mindfuck then it turns into the Simarillion.
>>8240561
Alice in Wonderland has pictures.
The collection of Oz books I'm looking at doesn't include any illustrations.
>>8240582
Then you have knock-off imitations.
>>8240594
What does that mean?
They vary in quality and some of them are really fucked up.
>Or is any influence isolated to the movie alone?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uplifters
Baum wrote some stuff which could be seen as prophetic, like about wireless telephones and shit like that, so influence is hard to judge because there's probably more than just literary influence to him.
>>8240865
I meant influential in terms of literature. Such as Oz is referenced a lot in Gravity's Rainbow.
>>8240986
Like Wicked or the other book franchises set around it?
>>8241030
No like Gravity's Rainbow.
