There was a movie they made combined of several of the later Oz books, Return to Oz,

I love and own this movie. It's actually based on the second and third Oz books. Also has the great Dorothy-facing-electroshock-therapy scenes.

I love and own this movie.

What did you think about the ending - was it only a dream?

Also has the great Dorothy-facing-electroshock-therapy scenes.

And the one with the witch changing her heads, and all the heads screaming at night when Dorothy tries to steal something from where the witch keeps them.

It was the first time we ever saw Jack Pumpkinhead (my brother liked hom so much he made a costume of a pumpkinhead for one of the following Purims).

Yeah. And because it's true to the characters and the themes of the book. And because it involves Oxford and Bach.

Is that the one that requires Latin and an understanding of Oxford protocol?

Well, yes.

But that aside, I'm thinking of everything that happens after the mystery is resolved as the ending. The Bach concert, and Peter and Harriet's conversation on the roof, the mutual apologies, and their realizations of what the past however many (five?) years have meant to them.

What did you think about the ending - was it only a dream?

No, because the whole point of the electroshock is to cure Dorothy of her continuing delusions about Oz. The movie is largely a redress to the other movie ending, by saying, Dorothy's not messed up, she's just a plucky girl that went to a weird world.

And the one with the witch changing her heads, and all the heads screaming at night when Dorothy tries to steal something from where the witch keeps them.

Creepy scene, huh? And straight from the book. Of course, one of the books the movie draws from is the story of Tip, a boy who is in reality the disguised empress of Oz, Ozma. So it has a big ol' gender change reveal at the end which Disney was never going to touch. Actually I think they did a great job of combining the two books into one. Harlan Ellison is a big fan of this movie, too. It's something we talked about when I had lunch at his house. He's a huge Oz fan.

Well, yes.

Ah, okay. That wasn't necessarily a criticism; I've actually never read any Sayers. (It's funny the things you pick up from being around fandom. Sayers and the names of the Queer Eye hosts.)

Also suggesting John Crowley's Little, Big

yesyesyesyesyesyes. Micole, did you know that the SF Chronicle review excerpt on the cover of Aegypt was mine? I worship that man as a writer.

Oh, the endings of Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon.

Loved the ending (and book) of Gaudy Night. Busman's Honeymoon I loathed, ending and all. That one gave me your Joyce-induced hives, I think.

Is that the one that requires Latin and an understanding of Oxford protocol?

I'd just like to say that it is because of reading Buffista discussion about this particular scene that I understood the ending of To Say Nothing of the Dog. So thanks!

(It's funny the things you pick up from being around fandom. Sayers and the names of the Queer Eye hosts.)

Plot developments on Oz. (Oddly enough, not the one Hec and Nilly are discussing.)

I was the only person in my family that liked the movie "Return to Oz". Were it not for my mom being a sick puppy fairly often, I would think I was found on a Buffista Island cabbage patch.