Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
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Read in June, 2008
I actually listened to the majority of this book a la librivox, and I must say, that's the way to do it. There's a very good British reader who does a version and his interpretation makes the work come alive. However, the final portion that I did physically read was very enjoyable as well.
The only reason I don't give this book five stars is that I reserve that rating for books that I find difficult––or near impossible––to put down. We're talking your Harry Potters, your Enders Games...more
The only reason I don't give this book five stars is that I reserve that rating for books that I find difficult––or near impossible––to put down. We're talking your Harry Potters, your Enders Games...more
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Of course at some point in my childhood, I read this book, and its sequel, but as is often the case with books that you read in childhood, when you read it as an adult, it sounds so much different.
The one thing that I found most striking was the way I paid attention to scenes that I had thought irrelevant, or uninteresting as a child. Probably some of the disinterest stemmed from an inability to interpret the scene from a child's perspective. For example, the scene in the Duchess's kitchen wit...more
The one thing that I found most striking was the way I paid attention to scenes that I had thought irrelevant, or uninteresting as a child. Probably some of the disinterest stemmed from an inability to interpret the scene from a child's perspective. For example, the scene in the Duchess's kitchen wit...more
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Read in January, 2004
recommends it for:
Anyone looking to see old stories anew
I have always been fascinated by the work of Abelardo Morell. Personally, I feel that he is greatest modern photographer. His works have the ability to transport the viewer to another world, reminding me of the works of Kafka, Beckett, and Dali.
I've lived in New York most of my life and yet through his lens, New York looks like something out of the myths and legends. So when I found out that he was doing a book with the text and drawings from the original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ...more
I've lived in New York most of my life and yet through his lens, New York looks like something out of the myths and legends. So when I found out that he was doing a book with the text and drawings from the original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ...more
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Read in April, 2008
recommends it for:
anyone who isn't scared of the strangeness of imagination...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are two seperate stories, bound by their common heroine Alice. If you compare the stories to the Disney film, you'll find that Disney combined them both throughout the movie, not giving much regard to the manner in which Lewis Carroll presents them in his novel. As is most often the case, the book was better than the movie - as it provided a descriptive and imaginative telling of the Carroll's vision.
While I must admit that th...more
While I must admit that th...more
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Read in July, 2007
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Well, if you really love this book, please do not read on! I really did not enjoy the book, and I'm a little surprised that it's considered a classic. The one thing I did enjoy was that there were many imaginative scenes - all of the different places that she went, like the tea party, the garden, etc. But, the characters were drawn very poorly - they were simply drawn, and most were just annoying (even Alice!). Most of the characters in the great "wonderland" were either cruel, mea...more
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Read in February, 2008
I was trying to listen to this book on tape, but I just had to press the stop button. Sooooo ooop! Soooooo oooooP! ARGH! The lady reading the book was so boring and did this horrible whiney voice for Alice that I was just turned off immediately.
The only thing is...I never really quite realized just how dimwitted Alice really is. Yeah, sure, she's in a weird place but she just keeps stumbling about and speaking without thinking (the poor mouse in the pool who kept trying to get away from her ...more
The only thing is...I never really quite realized just how dimwitted Alice really is. Yeah, sure, she's in a weird place but she just keeps stumbling about and speaking without thinking (the poor mouse in the pool who kept trying to get away from her ...more
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I'm probably the world's biggest Alice fan. I collect anything and everything Alice whether it's classic style or Disney, doesn't matter. I even named my first child Alice. I have read Wonderland and Looking Glass several times throughout my life and I enjoy them every time. I've read them to my kids too and they like them as well. It's just fun and nonsense. There's no need to deeply analyze the greater meaning deep within the story or to try to figure out the author's motives or anything...more
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Rereading Alice's Adventures (both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass), I am astonished to find that the stories I recounted as pleasant, surreal fairytales to be the expression of extreme anxiety. But again as I did when I first read the books, I find some sort of solace. Every moment of the adventure is delightfully nonsensical. Carroll mixes up language and in his wordplay gives us something much deeper.
"I say what I mean" becomes "I mean what I say".
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"I say what I mean" becomes "I mean what I say".
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Read in August, 2008
I'm ashamed to say that I had never read this book as a child, and only now do I truly realize what a classic I've missed out on. My knowledge of the story had previously only come from my viewing of the Disney movie when I was 7-years old. Such a travesty, I know.
That being said, this book is just.... trippy. I'm used to the happy, darling little critters in Beatrix Potter's books, and seeing the animals in "Alice in Wonderland" behave so rudely and with such neuroses is just d...more
That being said, this book is just.... trippy. I'm used to the happy, darling little critters in Beatrix Potter's books, and seeing the animals in "Alice in Wonderland" behave so rudely and with such neuroses is just d...more
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Read in January, 1980
recommends it for:
everyone
One of the best books to read for every age (speaking for myself - from age 14 to 40). Among the plethora of literary gems within this book and "The Looking Glass" one always stood out for me: the words of the Gnat from the train scene "...it always happens" (a response to Alice's concerned inquiry on whether the heartbreaking event of bread-and-butterflies dying due to the lack of fresh toast happens frequently) - probably, one of the most desperate lines I've ever read.
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Read in May, 2003
recommends it for:
someone who wants to get away from this world
Poca gente se imagina teniendo una gran aventura, poca gente desearía tener una aventura en un lugar que no parece tener mucha lógica (aún cuando en verdad la tiene, matemática, pero lógica a fin de cuentas) Poder viajar a otro mundo, que no parece tener mucho sentido, puede ser un alivio si pensamos que éste nos agobia. Lewis Carrol ( Lewis Carrol) logró crear un mundo donde las cosas son exageradas o no parecen tener m...more
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
Anyone who'd like a quick, nostalgic read
I am an unabashed lover of Disney movies. With an unreasonable love somewhat akin, I suspect, to my father's enjoyment of the original Star Trek series, my reading of a book that is in opposition to my first imprint of the story is somewhat skewed.
With that caveat in place, I must admit that I like the book, mainly because it reminds me of an oral story told to a child. Not a children's book, but the kind of tale spun out over several nights to a child who refuses to go to sleep, voiced by a ...more
With that caveat in place, I must admit that I like the book, mainly because it reminds me of an oral story told to a child. Not a children's book, but the kind of tale spun out over several nights to a child who refuses to go to sleep, voiced by a ...more
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Read in May, 2008
This book was a LOT darker than I thought it would be. I wonder how much of the horror little kids actually get.
It also reminded me a little bit of A Series of Unfortunate Events, in as much as he uses language and then explains it:
"Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately suppressed by the offers of the court. (As that is rather a hard word, I will just explain to you how it was done. They had a large canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings: into this...more
It also reminded me a little bit of A Series of Unfortunate Events, in as much as he uses language and then explains it:
"Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately suppressed by the offers of the court. (As that is rather a hard word, I will just explain to you how it was done. They had a large canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings: into this...more
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Anyone who loves Alice's Adventures in Wonderland should have a copy of this amazing pop-up edition. Robert Sabuda does fantastic things with paper and with everything literally leaping up at you from each page, you get a feeling of surprise and delight much the same as the feeling you probably got when you encountered Wonderland for the first (and second, and third....) time. It's also a good introduction to the full-length novel and lends itself nicely to reading aloud because there is such a ...more
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recommends it for:
young ones
At first I was a little shocked by Helen Oxenbury's free-spirited, blond, short-skirted Alice. But her illustrations grew on me. Oxenbury presents a more modern and youthful Alice; this allowed me to see the girl as a curious child, not a sort of wooden English icon. This is a softer version of Alice; an edition I recommend for very young children. Why? Because the characters are more gentle. Much as I admire Sir John Tenniel's woodcuts, his illustrations always gave me a slight shiver, when I w...more
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Read in March, 2008
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a classic story written for children but best understood by adults. It was too clever of Lewis Carroll to have thought of such absurd yet absolutely philosophical ideas. The novel was really clever and it was apparently, insanity explained sanely. It may have appeared to be lacking depth and meaning, but it actually took a lot of logic to make it seem illogical.
Aside from the stark contrast between sanity and insanity, the characters were really to be app...more
Aside from the stark contrast between sanity and insanity, the characters were really to be app...more
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This is actually only my latest edition acquired of this wonderful book, and mine isn't even the one with the cool intros by Self & Smith; mine is the original edition from Sweden, but that's not listed here and I'm too lazy to add it.
Anyway, what's left to be said about these books. If you've lived this long without reading them, your life's a poorer place. Of all the illustrated editions available, the Tenniel ones are those that should accompany a first read. However, being a Gormenghast...more
Anyway, what's left to be said about these books. If you've lived this long without reading them, your life's a poorer place. Of all the illustrated editions available, the Tenniel ones are those that should accompany a first read. However, being a Gormenghast...more
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This was quite an enjoyable weekend reading after spending three weeks reading Gunter Grass's high prose. To think that Lewis Carroll (not his real name) was a mathematician by profession makes this literary nonsense book even more interesting.
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where –" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter whi...more
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where –" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter whi...more
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I picked this book up on a whim when someone told me Lewis Carroll was a suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings. (I read more about this and it wouldn've been physically impossible for Carroll to have committed the crimes.) I remembered enjoying the Disney movie when I was younger, but I must say that I enjoyed the story even more as an adult. In reading it, I caught so many of the things I had missed. Carroll is so clever and I'm very glad I picked it up.
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Soooo I decided that I am in an interesting state of mind when I am able to follow the crazy conversations that go on in this book (like killing time and living in a treacle well) better than Alice. Yeah, that says a lot about me and how I sit with life. I talked to him recently y'know, and he seems tired all the time but that's becuase he sits around and does nothing. Which makes me jealous because I'm always running around and doing something. . . .
Note: The copy I have is a Thrift edit...more
Note: The copy I have is a Thrift edit...more
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and beat him when he sneezes!
he only does it to annoy,
because he knows it teases!
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