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I read Alice and the sequel Through The Looking Glass a few years ago after loving the first Disney movie since childhood, and i was surprised how many more wonders it had in store for me. I'd love to reread it this month, i hope i'll get to it."A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader." - Vladimir Nabokov
This is one of those books that is so much a part of the general culture (like 1984) that I am not sure whether I've really read it, in the sense of sitting down with a book & starting @ the beginning & continuing straight on till I get to the end. I'll try (re)reading it that way this month.
Oddly enough I came to Lewis Carrol via Godel, Escher, Bach (careful, the dots just rolled off that "o" there) and reading Jabberwockey in the original German. Much like reading Shakespeare in the original Klingon.Over-rated? Of course it is, but literary canon nonetheless, and accessible to those who did not study Laughing and Grief.
Owned and read it many times as a child. My copy also included Through the Looking Glass. I haven't read it as an adult so that should be interesting.
I hadn't thought about Jabberwocky in German! It's crazy enough in English! But a very fun adventure. That one is in Through the Looking Glass though, right?
Es brillig war. Die schlichte TovenWirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
Und aller-mümsige Burggoven
Die mohmen Räth' ausgraben.
But it's still better in the original Klingon
LOL! I love it :) In college, we did a "performance" of Jabberwocky for a school-wide musical competition (more like a talent show) and we had so much fun dressing up as ridiculous characters out of the poem. We even had a guy with a Camelot-type costume fighting a guy in a Chewbacca suit as the Jabberwock.
Did the mad tea party with the children in grammar school. Teacher did not recognize the reference.
How is Jabberwockey originally in German? Where did Carrol take that from? I'm a german, stumbling upon the german version for the first time, and it sounds inferior to the "Alice-original" english one.
This book makes me laugh out loud every single time I read it. Just downloaded it on my ereader, so I can read it again :)
A friend of mine dressed up her whole family in Wonderland characters for Halloween, including the Mad Hatter. It was adorable!
A very fun re-visit into the world of Alice. The narration by Jim Dale certainly didn't hurt! I kept remembering scenes from the old animated Disney film. It's all nonsense and craziness of course, but in a fun, dream-like way that a child can understand and an adult can reminisce upon. In fact, the courtroom scene is so very like a session of Congress that it's quite laughable for an adult! I will certainly enjoy going back to Wonderland again in the future.
First, who will read it? Who will reread it? What are your expectations?