‘Wicked’ by Gregory Maguire – A Wickedly Missed Opportunity
I wanted to love Wicked. After falling in love with the movie adaptation starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande when it premiered in November 2024, I was all in. The visuals, the performances, the vibe—it hooked me completely. I bought the movie the second it dropped in December, already knowing I had tickets to see the Broadway tour when it hit San Diego in February 2025. With a few months in between, I figured, “Why not dive into the book that started it all?”
And that… was my mistake.
The Neverending Story Book-to-Movie Comparison
The Neverending Story was a childhood favorite that carried over into adulthood. I didn’t know it was a book until my late teens, when I started working at Borders and found a copy on the shelves.
The first time I read it, I thought that the movie had done a really good job following along with the major plot points of the book — for the half that was covered, anyway.