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I have already read that book twice as a child and as a teenager.
I'm reading that book for the third time.I remenber as child to be scare.At that time I found some caracters so mean and so selfish.Today my perspective is totally different I'm having fun reading it.I laugh all along.It is totally ironic to see how Alice interact in her conversation with the others caracters.They just seems to have difficulty to understand each other:on one side Alice speaks like a child with a limited understandi ...more
I'm reading that book for the third time.I remenber as child to be scare.At that time I found some caracters so mean and so selfish.Today my perspective is totally different I'm having fun reading it.I laugh all along.It is totally ironic to see how Alice interact in her conversation with the others caracters.They just seems to have difficulty to understand each other:on one side Alice speaks like a child with a limited understandi ...more
I read it because portions of the book are used as examples in a bunch of philosophical things (eg Humpty-Dumpty's idea that when he uses a word, it means exactly what he chooses it to mean). Obviously it's a children's book, but it's interesting and the dream-like landscape is genuinely scary - a queen constantly calling for executions is a scary thought no matter what the outcome - and creative. Each set piece has is its own fascinating idea and some are laugh out loud funny.
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