Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
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This volume brings together both Carroll’s books, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass”.Amazon.com Review
“And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “lacking pictures or conversations?”
Taking to heart his charming, insatiably curious heroine’s words, Lewis Carroll worked many long hours (days, months…) with illustrator Sir John Tenniel to make the most perfect pictures imaginable for what were to become instant classics: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. When thinking about Alice and her dreamy surrealistic adventures down the rabbit hole and behind the looking-glass, who can help picturing the golden-haired girl in her lilac dress and striped stockings, staring up at the Cheshire Cat or arguing with Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Tenniel’s drawings remained black and white for over 40 years until 1911, when eight prints in each book were hand colored. Now, for the first time, every remaining illustration has been colored, building these the first editions to feature all of the original art in full color. Traditionalists need not worry: colorist Diz Wallis colored proofs taken from Tenniel’s carefully preserved woodblocks, remaining faithful to his original drawings. The gorgeous tones of these new hardcover editions look as natural as can be; they could just as easily be from the 19th century. (Ages 9 and older) –Emilie Coulter
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I truly feel sorry for any child forced to read this book in school. Reading it as an adult was no better. It was possibly the most warped and perverse tale I have ever read in my life. Most passages were pure nonsense while others lead the reader to marvel if Lewis Carroll had possibly tasted some of the mushrooms Alice came upon in her adventure. There are many additional “classics” out there more enjoyable and logical than this one.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The first thing that must be said for anyone who’s seen Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and wants to read the book because they loved it so much is beware. The book and the movie, while following the same tale line, are nothing alike, and if you expect them to be you’ll most likely end up as disappointed as I was.
Perhaps it’s because I grew up with the fluidly poetic Dr Zeus, or perhaps I just expected something that the book simply was not, but I establish Carroll’s tale featureless and void of the essential, natural art to tale-telling that all “absurd” imaginative pieces need to be enjoyable.
Though I must give credit to Carroll for what I feel he deserves- in his time, this was a wildly fantastic book with a plethora of crazy characters, riddles, poetry and inspired plot twists that carry the reader around Wonderland with the legendary protagonist.
The Characters but, were truly brought to life by Disney to a degree unrealizable within the written format. I don’t fault Carroll for this, but when you’ve seen the movie first…
I also establish the transitions between scenery and scenes to be missing in impact because there is small honor made between one place and the next. I realize that Carroll was describing a dream (which is vague by scenery), but I feel that his writing could have accentuated the transitions to give the reader more involvement in the fading between one land and the next- what we have as a replacement for is something close to “Alice was walking in a forest and now she’s crossing a river.” Call me picky, but such a lackluster transition is bound to bore.
Most agitating were Penguin Classic’s annotations that factually littered the text with information completely beside the point to the tale. Boasting on the back that my copy is “the most comprehensively annotated edition available”, they weren’t lying. To get this title though, they stuck an annotation into every nook and cranny manageable. By the end of the fifth chapter I nearly threw the book out of the bus window because I had read more about Lewis Carroll’s diary entries and queer habit of wearing gloves everywhere than of Alice herself. At that point I more or less stopped regarding the annotations at all- content as a replacement for to deny their being rather than try my patience at reading them. I was upset at this because there were several places where an explanation, allusion or explanation was truly helpful, but they were one in stack of fifty and the remaining forty-nine were just too painfully superfluous to sift through
Through The Looking Glass also failed to place an impression on me. It was a very simple extension of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but in the same exact format, with the same trite transitions and utterly lackluster performances.
I thought it was a painful struggle to end Through The Looking Glass, and then establish myself face to face with Carroll’s original fleeting tale Alice’s Adventures Underground- the original fleeting tale that he had written for the young daughter of a close friend which his friends had urged him to elaborate upon. Following that, I establish an essay written by Carroll, Alice On Stage, about his thoughts on the cinematic production of his tale. I’m sorry; I just couldn’t bring myself to bother. That was enough of Lewis Carroll for me.
As I implied at the start, stick to Disney’s movie. I like to read, but Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a tale meant to be seen and heard, not read about.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was an extremely ridiculous and confusing book. The characters were mis leading and Alice was very annoying (from the small details I read throughout the book). This book would be a excellent for fantasy lovers, but to me it was unrealistic and childish. Some of the things the characters said and did in the tale were confusing and to some extent intricate. I don’t know if I would recommend this book to younger children because of its wording, but it was a child-like book and would attract young readers in a way. The writer writes in a unusual, seemingly “ancient fashioned” way. You could tell the book wasn’t written recently by the language usage. Alice is a young girl who is very bright and adventurous. On her way down to Wonderland, she meets alot of new characters. Some are decieving like the treaser cat but all of the very intresting and USUAL, such as the Mad Hater, The Queen of Hearts, etc. The way the leader worded things in the book, made me get confused and unintrested. I had no desire in reading it after the first few pages. I thought the book was far fetched, and seriously i wouldn’t recommend this book to teens or children.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Have you ever read the book Alice in Wonderland? Well if you haven’t, “Don’t”. Overall it wasn’t that terrible of a book, but it was extremely confusing. In my opinion this book could have been written a lot better. For example, it could have been alot less confusing and more realistic. The main reason I didn’t exactly delight in Alice in Wonderland was because it needed to be more pleased,then miserable. Here are some more reasons why you should not read this dull book. Alice in Wonderland could have been written a lot better. The leader’s language usage was a bit hard to comprehend,like when the caterpillar was talking to Alice about a crocodile and when the cat was giving Alice directions. Also, the scenes were fleeting and they jumped right into each additional too quickly. Most of the animals were rude and mean to Alice. The flowers shooed her away, the queen tried to cut off her head and the cat was permanently building her mad by lying. Another part that didn’t make any sense was the tea party,there’s no such thing aa a “Very Merry Unbirthday”. Also the Mad Hatter and the Hare wouldn’t listen to Alice when she was trying to tell her tale. All the creatures and animals kept Alice from what she was trying to do which was to follow the white rabbit. Alice met many,many creatures such as Tweedle Dee,Tweedle Dum,Do Do,Bill, Rabbit,Cat,Queen of Hearts,Caterpillar,Playing cards,Mad Hatter,Hare,Flowers,Pig and the Door Knob. This book made me just as frustrated and upset as it made Alice.I felt like I was in the book and I could feel all the confusion and nonsense going on. If I had to give my overall opinion of how excellent the book was I would give it 2 stars.So, in conclusion I want to let everyone know that Alice in Wonderland was not worth reading, so don’t waste your time! Go get yourself an appealing book to read!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this book for my wife. She likes it. It brings back ancient memories. Maybe when she is finished she will let me read it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5