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Summary: A pleasant masterpiece
Review: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a fun and pleasant reading. The book allows the reader to enter into Alice's mind and travel along with her through the worderful and mysterious Wonderland. Alice is a curious and questioning little girl traversing a land where nonsense is the common-sense, where right is wrong and where wrong is not always right (but can be sometimes!). This causes a surprise in every page you turn. The characters Alice meets usually produce the most unexpected replies which always leave Alice and the reader in a troubled state-of-mind. However amazing it can be, we are sometimes a little puzzled by noticing there is some logic in the nonsense world of Wonderland and I personally think this is the true beauty of the book. Moreover, all this is presented by the most unusual characters in a rich text, often mixing prose and verse and sometimes toying with typography in a e. e. cummings-like nature, which makes the book quite unique.
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Summary: Interesting, but overrated
Review: It is somewhat hard to relate to the characters as they are from vintage turn-of-the-century English society and I am not. There are many things in the book that don't seem to make sense unless you look at the characters and situations from that perspective. The best aspects of this book are the creative characters and settings; make sure if you buy a copy of this book you get one with the original illustrations. I recommend this book to pretty much everyone; although it is somewhat dated and strange, you should enjoy it.
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Summary: Wonderful classic!
Review: Alice in Wonderland is a beautifully written fairytale like novel which tells of the unusual adventures of a young girl who happens to fall into a rabbit hole...and into an often funny fantasy of strange happenings.
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Summary: Great to read as an adult!
Review: A traditional child'book but it was a lot of fun and a change of pace to read as a grown-up. I just LOVED the characters that Alice encounters on her adventures and I also loved the story's word-play and witticism.Out of the two stories, Through the Looking Glass, although less famous, is the more linear and I think entertaining but both are amazingly creative and bizarre stories and are both short enough so that they should be read together.
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Summary: Amy's Review of Alice and Wonderland
Review: The book Alice in wonderland starts when Alice finds a white rabbit. Alice follows the rabbit down a hole with millions of cupboards. Alice struggles with her size and finds her self talking to mice and birds. Alice meets many charecters in Wonderland but the worst is the Queen Of Hearts. The queens favorite line in "... of with thier heads ...". When Alice wakes up from her nap she takes Dinahs kitten through the looking glass into Looking Glass World where everything is backwards. In Looking Glass World everyone tells Alice poems and she doesn't know what any mean until she finds Humpty Dumpty. In Looking Glass World Alice moves to the 8th square and becomes a queen. This is a book I recomend to every person that likes adventure.
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Summary: I reeeeeeeally love this movie!
Review: I literaly grew up with this movie, and I would definatly recommend for the veiwing of this movie by any children. The bright pictures, brilliant acting, and cute songs would attract anyone! I mean, come on, who can resist Ringo Star in a Mock Turtle costurme?! Not all of them, but some of the songs are word-for-word from Lewis Carol's book (believe me, I could recite the poems from the movie, and the book). It is really good for encouragement of good literature for children, besides entertaining.
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Summary: Alice In Wondeland
Review: Well what can I say but I'm excstatic right now. I remember watching this as a child and LOVED IT!!! I had purchased Alice Through The Looking Glass a few years ago and the story just isn't complete without this movie.I highly recommend it for children and adults.There's just nothing like it!!!
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Summary: Entertaining and Puzzling...a complete classic
Review: Most children these days are exposed to the magical adventures of Alice in Wonderland through cartoon movies, such as Disney's version, but very few are exposed to the exact literature, the book that made the cartoons, movies, and every other piece of merchandise on the market today happen. "Alice in Wonderland" is a complete children's classic. Unlike many children books of then and now, it makes you think, something we all, especially children, should do often if not done at least once a day. Not only is this book, which follows Alice through a magical world where the verdict comes after the sentence, tea parties are insane, and Mock Turtles sob continueously, a good fantasy story to keep young (and old) minds occupied, its also a good riddle and puzzle book. With constant interruption and riddles being said throughout the book by the 'mad' charactors, its a good book to read if you want something difficult to figure out or to wonder about. The author Lewis Carroll I've learned enjoyed complicated puzzles and intentionally included many in this piece of literature. "Alice in Wonderland" is definately a classic that must be read if not already read. It's a good book to settle down with and enjoy, for the young, and young at heart.
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Summary: Dreamers...
Review: I really like Alice in Wonderland and its sequel because it is so whimsical. The way Dodgson made fun of Alice so much makes one laugh until tears come pouring down. He based the character Alice, on his friend; a real life Alice. Throughout the book, he constantly makes references to her, or something related to her. For example, when a character asks her the exact day Alice replies May 4th. May 4th is the real life Alice's birthday. Alice walks through Wonderland, and she sees many strange things, but thinks otherwise. If you like poems, you will certainly like Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, for both books contain numerous poems. However, in the book Carroll takes the original poems and creates a parody out of them. Something interesting to know is that all the poems relate to the chapters. These are all minor details, but something to muse over. On the surface, Alice in Wonderland is a book where she meets weird creatures and walks away from them always feeling humiliated, as she thinks she is smarter than she really is. That is most of Alice in Wonderland. Alice through the Looking Glass is similar to the prequel, yet glaringly different. The whole book revolves around a chess game, and so the character's actions correspond to moves on the chessboard. Alice joins in the game, starts out as a white pawn, and proceeds to move until she becomes a queen. At each square, she meets a new character, but in one chapter, characters from the previous book are in this one too. An important thing to know in this famous classic is that everything is backwards. It makes sense since Alice is on the other side of a mirror, yet she encounters difficulty sometimes in understanding this. But in the end, she manages to become a queen and to checkmate the red king. Both books are very enjoyable, and I strongly advocate both children and adults to read it. Enjoy!! Cheers!!!!! : )
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Summary: Absolutely a classic!
Review: I watched this movie on TV in my pre-teen years and thought it was great. I now have a 3 year old daughter and we both enjoy the movie over and over again. I think it has a the best cast of characters I have ever seen. Each actor is superbly cast to each character and fit the persona perfectly. I recommend this movie to anyone with children or who wish to relive childhood fantasies.
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