I had previously read this book many years ago, so I was curious if it was indeed as strange and offbeat as I remembered it. In fact, it is. 

While there are elements that are very interesting and you can see the threads that they used when writing the Broadway show, there are also so many crude and unnecessary bits that could have easily been excluded. 

I am interested in reading the rest of the series to see what Maguire does with the other characters. However, my biggest lingering question is how someone read this book and then created Wicked, my all time favourite Broadway. I can only assume that drugs were involved.