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Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner ISBN: 0-451-52774-7 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 12 December, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Classic Storytelling
Comment: I have grown up watching Disney's Alice in Wonderland, and knowing what liberties Disney is known to take in their movies, I wanted to read the original story for myself.
And I'm glad I did. Lewis Carol was such a wonderful storyteller, full of imagination and creative use of the English language.
This was two stories in one. The first, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, I thought had more imagination and he action seemed to flow faster with more scenes and challenges for Alice to deal with. The characters are fantastic and highly imaginative.
The second story, Through the Looking Glass, also had a lot of imagination, but it didn't seem to have as fast a pace as the first book. Still, I found it fascinating as the story was done as if Alice were a chess piece moving across a chess board to reach the other side as a pawn to become a queen. As she moved up the chess board, she encountered different characters and situations.
Highly recommended, even if it was written as a child's book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Alice in Wonderland- once scared me, now is cool
Comment: My mom first read this book to me when I was seven years old. Because I was only in first or second grade, Alice in Wonderland scared the heck out of me. I remember parts were pretty horrific and confusing. I kind of hated it. It was like Stephen King for a first grader- which, if you ever go to a website on Lewis Carroll, shouldn't surprise anyone because Carroll had loads of problems and was pretty much tripped out while writing this (I think).
Now that I'm older, I decided to re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. While reading it, it's hard to decide whether this is just a load of imaginative creativity, or a metaphor of something deeper that is true in society today, or true in the 1800's. Well, I guess you can read it either way- but there is definitely some deep stuff in here. Many poems will stop and make you think, and as the story progresses you can't help but feel like you are Alice (which is pretty amazing, because this isn't like Lord of the Rings or anything, it's basically a fairy tale on drugs).
Definitely, definitely, definitely do not hesitate to pick this book up and read. Another review said it was disturbing- well, in some ways it really is. But the characters and the plot line (or lack of!) keep you interested and keeps you reading. AIW and TTLG are must-haves in anyone interested in fantasy/sci-fi, along with Chronicles of Narnia and other great classics.
Rating: 5
Summary: More than meets the eye..........
Comment: THIS IS A BOOK WICH ONE SHOULD ANALYSE FOR ONESELF!
And NO, one cannot overanalyse this book, the symbols in it are like the branches of a tree. The branches keep expanding until they end in fruits and seeds, the seeds thereoff will fall unto the ground and transform into another tree wich also has seeds and the cycle will continue ad infinitum.
One of the most important symbols is the transformation trough eating pastry or drinking liquids, wich will make one bigger or smaller. The pastry or the liquids as clusters of thought wich will transform ones shape in nonphysical reality. Have you ever encountered someone who was very short or small in appearant reality yet he/she displayed a posture of magnificent greatness? Well, it is not a wild argument to state that he/she took a bite of the cookie or a zip of the magick potion....
Another thing very important are the playing cards. The metaphor as life as a game, yourself batteling a whole armada of playing cards spades, hearts and diamonds alike!
Then there is the eloquent buffoonery one engages upon in the teaparty of life (remember the rabbit and the hatsalesman?). This reminded me very much of the people one encounters in everyday life who seem to not be able to think clearly, to be out of syntax with the axioms of logic. These people will resort to various kinds of practices like palmistry or speaking with angels, they have postulated their delusions into actuallity.
But of course, to transcend beyond this and to show you a way out one has to engage upon our magickal cat (but usually one will just bumb into him at the least expected moment). This can be seen as a mentor, a guidepost or even a magickian!
What will be the metaphor of your life? What territory will define your map?
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Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Cliffs Complete) by Lewis Carroll, Bruce Edward Walker ISBN: 0764587218 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow ISBN: 0688166776 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll ISBN: 0486408787 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 23 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, John Tenniel ISBN: 0393048470 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Alice in Wonderland Coloring Book by Lewis Carroll ISBN: 0486228533 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1972 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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