Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Re: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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I may have seen every movie/video/TV adaption of Alice + Looking Glass. And just this past week read them for the first time. I can't recall if I read an abridged version in school as a kid. However I do recall the story from when I was a kid. Which may very well have been a movie/video/TV adaption of the story. Anyway from all of those I was of the impression that Alice fought the Jabberwock. But after reading the books I didn't encounter such a portion in them. Just the poem with a he with a vorpal sword. To my amazement, aside from this, everything I remember from all of those adaptions from the story were all parts of it and so the end result is I got the whole story in the long run from the different parts of the different adaptions. Plus each ones add in story elements.
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I completely agree with everything you said. I didn't quite understand it as a child, but I really enjoyed it as an adult.TheBookMaven wrote:This has always been one of my favorite books, although I didn't actually read it as a child, which is too bad. As an adult, I have read it many times. I love how he captured the essence of a dream, where things don't always connect in logical ways and sometimes the illogical way is the best way.
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The one quibble I have always had about this book is that Alice just eats and drinks anything put before her with a label! When my children were young and watched the Disney cartoon version, I hammered it into their heads NOT to just eat and drink anything offered to them! In this day and age, growing and shrinking would be the least of their worries.
Through the Looking Glass, though, I have no comment, as I have yet to make it through a full reading without falling asleep.
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While a lot of people do psychoanalytical studies of the novel, I also read somewhere that there's a theory that Lewis Carroll, who was also a mathematician, wrote Alice in Wonderland as an absurdist parody of his contemporary peers and their radical ideas. I have to admit that this is my favourite theory about the book. The idea of Carroll sitting in his study fuming about his peers and coming up with these story snippets of weird creatures who mumble nonsense just makes me smile.
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