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Summary: Favourite books of all time
Review: Alice has been my favourite book all my life (both volumes). It made totally different sense to me when I was 6 than it does now that I am grown up, so it has seemed like many different books to meme throughout my life! It's great to see Carroll's other works. Some of the poems are just as good as the ones in ALice. One of my favorite poems is "Hiawatha's Photographing", which is written in the style of Longfellow. The introduction, in prose, is actually written in the same eetre. Except that you don't notice that, because the punctuation is like prose, not poetry. It starts: "In an age of imitation, I can claim no special merit for this slight attempt at doing what is known to be so easy..." It's nice to have the illustrations because Carroll was very careful about the illustrations and you can see just how he pictured his works. This is a wonderful book to give as a gift either to someone else...... or yourself
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Summary: The book of adventure and non sense
Review: Alice in Wonderland I think the book Alice in Wonderland is a very good book. While it can be confusing at times, it makes you wonder. For example, when they were talking to the turtle, it didn't make very much sense. Also, the trial over the pastries, it was very idiotic, and if that trial happened today it would get thrown out. Lastly, at the hare and mad hatter's on going tea party, it was very senseless. The author's use of language was very unlike our language today. For example, when she said so many times the words, " shot up", it sounds English or something. The book has this tone a lot throughout it. Maybe the author has English back round. But it was in very easy to understand language, accept for the times people were talking non-sense. The main character is Alice. At sometimes she can seem clueless, and go on rambling like while talking with the turtle. She even pointed it out her-self. A lot of her decisions during the book make no sense. Like to just walk off with that little pig at the Duchess' house. And why would she follow the rabbit to an unknown land to begin with. There was many times where she confused me sometimes. Like when she talked with the caterpillar and said she wasn't the person she started as at the beginning of the day. One thing of the book I did not understand was the theme. In fact I did not see a theme. The only thing close to a theme was a girl trapped in an unusual world, with no way out. One other thing I didn't see in the book was a plot. The entire book was was a girl going with the flow and seeing where the adventure took her. The cat that kept disappearing and appearing even asked her why did she need directions to somewhere, if she didn't know where she was going. In my opinion this book had no effectiveness. It also had no meaning. It had no moral, and nothing to learn from it. So I think the book was very pointless, and just something to read for fun.
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Summary: Better for a child
Review: Alice, a young girl who follows the White Rabbit into his hole where there are many unexpected thing that Alice never thinks of it before. Here Alice will shrink or grow depending upon her drinking or eating. First shrinking occurs when she drinks a labeled bottle "drink me", but when she eats the cake that noted, "eat me", she grows up. Moreover, she still meets the Mouse and other animals that are swimming away from the large pool of tears that Alice created while she grows up. When all arrive the shore, they try to get dry by a Caucus-race that suggests by the Dodo. Then, Alice continues to chase the White Rabbit. Now he returns and commands Alice to find him a fan and groves in his house. Here she drinks from an unlabeled bottle that causes her growing until fill up the house. She is getting into a trouble, however, she can escape by eating a small piece of cake, and runs into the woods where she meets a hookah - smoking Caterpillar who teaches to shrink or grow by eating a mushroom. Next, she goes to the Duchess house where she and a baby pig escape together by helping from the grinning Cheshire Cat. After leaving the baby pig, she stops at the March Hare's house, where she gets involved in the Mad party with the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse. Not so long, Alice leaves and comes to the hall and finds a little golden key. Now she can open the door enter to the beautiful garden where she has to play croquet with the Queen of Hearts who often shouts "off with her o/ his head". It is a dangerous game. Then, the Queen leads Alice to meet the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle who tell her the story of the lobster quadrille and the school experiences. At the end, Alice becomes a witness, and also is accused in a trail in the case of the stolen tart. She wakes up before judging and finds all are dream and finds herself on the riverbank where starts the story. The readers are able to guess easily what the story is about from the tile. But, when the book is read, it could hardly know what will happen next. That is because the whole book is full of unexpected things. However, the children or the adults can read it with enjoyment according to the fit imaginations that the author expresses through the written characters and the pictures to the reader.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK!!!
Review: Alice, a young girl who follows the White Rabbit into his hole where there are many unexpected thing that Alice never thinks of it before. Here Alice will shrink or grow depending upon her drinking or eating. First shrinking occurs when she drinks a labeled bottle "drink me", but when she eats the cake that noted, "eat me", she grows up. Moreover, she still meets the Mouse and other animals that are swimming away from the large pool of tears that Alice created while she grows up. When all arrive the shore, they try to get dry by a Caucus-race that suggests by the Dodo. Then, Alice continues to chase the White Rabbit. Now he returns and commands Alice to find him a fan and groves in his house. Here she drinks from an unlabeled bottle that causes her growing until fill up the house. She is getting into a trouble, however, she can escape by eating a small piece of cake, and runs into the woods where she meets a hookah - smoking Caterpillar who teaches to shrink or grow by eating a mushroom. Next, she goes to the Duchess house where she and a baby pig escape together by helping from the grinning Cheshire Cat. After leaving the baby pig, she stops at the March Hare's house, where she gets involved in the Mad party with the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse. Not so long, Alice leaves and comes to the hall and finds a little golden key. Now she can open the door enter to the beautiful garden where she has to play croquet with the Queen of Hearts who often shouts "off with her o/ his head". It is a dangerous game. Then, the Queen leads Alice to meet the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle who tell her the story of the lobster quadrille and the school experiences. At the end, Alice becomes a witness, and also is accused in a trail in the case of the stolen tart. She wakes up before judging and finds all are dream and finds herself on the riverbank where starts the story. The readers are able to guess easily what the story is about from the tile. But, when the book is read, it could hardly know what will happen next. That is because the whole book is full of unexpected things. However, the children or the adults can read it with enjoyment according to the fit imaginations that the author expresses through the written characters and the pictures to the reader.
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: As a kid, age 6, I read the illustrated Disney version and percieved it as disturbing for the sheer helplessness of Alice in the story.
In 1995 I bought the book and found it disturbing again. The book does set a landmark for imiginay worlds and absurdity, but the character of Alice is that of a kid pushed around in a world not her own.
Is this the real "Alice" Carroll wanted to possess? Why does she not take initiative? Why does Carroll pushes her around in his story so much? Place the book also in the light of his alleged "want for the love of young girls".
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Summary: A memory of my father reading to me.
Review: I have a copy of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass which was given to me on my seventh birthday. I wish this copy still had the original artwork on the cover. I found it fascinating. My grandmother gave me a copy along with a harmonica. The harmonica was lost long ago, the book remains and has always had a place in my heart. I was too young to read the entire book, so my father started reading this book to me. Perhaps still having this book has given me a connection to the past. I laugh when I reminisce about my father (who is now 70) singing "Beautiful Soup," most beautifully I must add. He also recited "Jabberwocky" and I can still hear his voice as he read the tale of the Walrus: "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings." The Mad Tea Party is also very memorable. There is all kinds of nonsense talk children will love to try to figure out, and as adults still might be trying to figure out! They will love the riddles and beautiful illustrations. The mouse, the chess pieces and the Cheshire cat talk most intelligently about various concerns in Wonderland. Just as everything in a child's world is sometimes alive to them, so Alice's world is filled with things that are alive and most interesting to children. Alice never seems to run out of adventures. The Looking Glass House is amusing to me as it has a cute black kitten who is quite mischievous. I quote: "Oh, you wicked, wicked little thing!" cried Alice catching up the kitten and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace. "Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! ....... Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help if it might. John Tenniel's illustrations make the book and together he and Lewis Carroll created a magical world for children to explore. I hope you will read this book to your children, read them many books about many things. They will always thank you for it. Thank you Dad, I love you! You have given me so many things, and I thank you for my love of reading. I dedicate this review to my dad who will always live eternally with me as long as I have this book tucked safely away.
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Summary: Great Book!!!!!
Review: I love Alice in Wonderland and I can't wait until I read Through the Looking Glass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: pointless reading yet creative
Review: I rate Alice in Wonderland a 3 star rating. The author is very creative in this novel; she uses the literary element personifications through out the whole book. She does a very good job with this by how she portrays the character in the book, (ex: the Queen as a snob). Alice (the protagonist) starts off by following a white rabbit to a hole. This late and timid creature leads her into Wonderland. Wonderland is a place of creation and imagination. The dream like setting gives her the adventure, like a labyrinth. The fairytale like mood in the story gives a sense of fantasy, adventure as she meets and encounters many creatures of the dreamland world. She finds herself lost and goes along with what ever she comes across the unknown world. She finds herself with decisions and she has to make to get to one point to the other. I think that this story has really no point, its just nonsense of fairytale she tells to little kids. She even said that she told this during a trip to entertain three little girls. To me the story was a pointless adventure. Yes, she creates a great tone and mood for the setting yet the body of the story was boring to me. The only point I got from it was an internal conflict of whether to take one road or not, like whether to take and drink certain things and what she should do with the moment.
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Summary: Alice in Wonderland
Review: I reviewd this story as an interesting use of the authors imagination, also the way Lewis Carroll had a great ideas for characters for example : the Mad Hatter, the Weeping Turtle, the Diabolical Queen of Hearts , Cheshire the Cat, Tweedledum, Tweedle, and the Dutchess. All these characters were so interesting because I have never heard things like that berfore and thins like "Alice" drowning in her own puddle of tears.These things you don't see in a typical girl's dream basically all that's in a typical girls dream is flowers, playing with their dolls ,and girly stuff like that. This story also tells about how dreams can come true to you but not existing to no one else but you'r self . This story has affected me by looking inside me and others to see how we are in several ways in the dreams that we have . The writer is giving a message on how dreams can come true no matter what will happen. But other than that I liked this story it was very interesting.
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Summary: Certainly a land of Wonder
Review: Lewis Carols book Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass was truly wonderful. It was full of flowing words and vivid imagry. Alice in Wonderland is a great book for all ages. The young and the old would enjoy this books far fetched plot and crazy yet fun tongue twisting dialog. This book will truly get your imaginative juices flowing. If your are a bit older this book will bring you back to those days when your imagination was a bit more active. I was truly amazed that a single person could create such imagry and spark such an intrest. The book was a bit hard to follow at first but one will soon get used to this old fashioned style of writting. The print is small and the book is long but it is definatly worth reading. I gave the book five stars becasue I have never read anything that even comes close to comparing to this book.
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