Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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Re: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-G

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So in love with these books, the perfect summer -sitting-under-a-tree book.
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I am obsessed with this story. Its a beautiful adventure about growing up and exploring your imagination. The characters are extraordinary and unforgettable. Whether you read it as a child or as an adult the magic of it will make you feel like anything is possible.
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Thank you for that review. I have read both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" when I was a child, probably no older than 8 or 9. I was so entranced by the whimsical elements and fell in love with characters such as Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum, the Mad Hatter, and even the Queen of Hearts. The very fact that much of it was nonsensical was intriguing to me. However I could not get the idea out of my head that maybe each character and each obstacle that Alice faced symbolized something. It was not until a few moments ago when I read your post did I understand that it actually symbolized different aspects of political and social society of the 1800s. I am now inspired to re-read the books but through a different lens. I might even do some research about the 1800s to gain some background knowledge which will hopefully be able to shed some light into the matter. I never realized there was so much meaning threaded between the silly characters and events of the story.
Thanks again for your review! I am so excited to go back and visit Wonderland!
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For anyone interested, there's a very good edition called The Annotated Alice. It explains through footnotes all the riddles, math problems and theories, word play, and even all the political and historical references in Carroll's books.
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Alice in Wonderland is every little girls dream, at least it was for me when I was young. Going on adventures and getting to be very tiny and talking to the flowers, getting bigger and your legs and arms go out of the house. Always chasing the rabbit and seeing a cat appear and disappear out of no where. I enjoyed this book because it is great for young and old alike. Brings out the young in the old and your caught up in the journey with Alice so much, it's like you become her. Absolutely wonderful read! :mrgreen:
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I love Lewis Caroll's works. Specially his poems

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I love Lewis Caroll's works. Specially his poems

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I love Lewis Caroll's works. Specially his poems
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I absolutely love these books in this series. As a child I would pretend to be Alice off a grand adventure, I enjoy any good adventure book; however this is one of my all time favorites. I have also heard where people describe the book as a drug induced hallucination. This can be stemmed back to the Hippie song about the book and how the eat me and drink me aspect was based on taking hits of acid or lsd. Then we have the caterpillar who is sitting perched on top of a shroom while toking on a hookah bong. Can anyone else see this side of the story and could there be any relevance to this thought pattern?
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those books will always be close to my heart I re read them once a year and have done since I was a child. to bad the films reduced them to a farce aimed at toddlers. That is the problem with movie adaptions in general. Dealing with an image instead of the written word the story loses it's depth.
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I too loved this book. When i first started reading i felt a little weird though. I Felt like reading someone's dream. But then i started enjoying it and by the time i finished it i become a fan.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a very interesting classical novel. Carol's theme to these two novels, in my opinion, were mystery, suspense, fantasy, and dream like. These books have been entertaining people of all ages for generations. The first book, "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" stars Alice, a young girl, with a great, big imagination. It tells the tale of her falling into a rabbit's hole and discovering many strange things, including enjoying a tea party that never ends, meeting a purple, talking cat, growing larger than a house, and playing a game of croquet with an evil queen. While this book gave me quite a bit of laughs, I found it boring and too odd for my liking.
In the second book, Through the Looking Glass, Alice, starring once again, travels back to Wonderland, only to find that the evil queen has caused a lot of trouble, and it is up to Alice to stop her from destroying her sister, the white queen. This book gave an interesting perspective and also was much too weird for me much like the first book.
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While reading this book I was reminded of J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" because both books seamlessly switch between nonsense and childlike attitudes towards life to very complex and adult ideas and issues. Once you pull back a few layers of ridiculousness you find that it is our society and perceptions that are truly nonsensical.
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I love these books! I haven't read them in a while, this post makes me want to read them again.
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newhere wrote:For anyone interested, there's a very good edition called The Annotated Alice. It explains through footnotes all the riddles, math problems and theories, word play, and even all the political and historical references in Carroll's books.
I almost picked that up last time I was in the bookstore, but I was afraid it wouldn't be what it seemed and ruin the original story!! Did you like it?

It looked really interesting, I should have bought it. Darnit. lol.
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I've read the first, but never Through the looking glass. It's definitely a strange book, but very worthwhile to read.
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I was never allowed to get into this book for some reason, I think the constant revisiting of the story by Hollywood, video games and other media have me fed up.
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