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Summary: wonder in wonderland
Review: I had to read this book for a classic book report. My teacher said it would be a great one to read. If it wasn't so confusing, it would be a great book for younger children. I really didn't enjoy it though, because the lot seemed a little too young for me. Anyone over the age of twelve, might not be interested in it. Don't get me wrong, Because it did have some exciting parts in it though, like when Alice first entered the wonderland. Everything was like a fairy tale with talking rabbits and shrinking/growing juice. Alice would walk into a room, drink the juice, and if she was small, she'd grow into a giant, and if she was a giant, she'd shrink. It gets pretty confusing. On her adventure, she walks through a series of rooms and can't find her way out. Will she ever make it out? Read the boook to find out.
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Summary: The Gathering Storm
Review: A prophetic tome which foretold the gathering storm of the 20th century: moral relativism, social disintegration, lethal authoritarianism, the absurd. A dark, haunting and disturbing masterpiece masterfully disguised as a nursery tale. Sam Vaknin, author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited.
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Summary: imaginative and sometimes scary!
Review: Alice falls down the rabbithole and enters a magical mystical wonderland full of talking creatures -- all of whom seem to be in a bad mood. Various foods cause her to grow or shrink to extreme sizes, and she despairs of ever making it back home. Peppered throughout the story are now legendary characters such as the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat. This fantastical story was created by the grown Charles Dodgson for the child Alice, with whom he was obsessed.
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Summary: A warm, funny work
Review: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are probably some of the most famous children's books in the English anguage. There are two ends to the spectrum of interpreting them. On the one end, the books are seen as wonderful and innocent entertainment mainly for kids but also suitable for adults. It is innovative and chaotic and performs puns and wordplay on the English language as well as concepts. They are accompanied by great quality illustrations and have a sense of fun and adventure about them. On the other end, the books are seen as elaborate allegories. Everything is symbolic. The tales are reminiscent of an LSD induced fantasy. Everything is Freudian and academic and open to postmodern interpretation and of course there's the disturbing question of Carrol's supposed obsession with little girls. Having read - and loved - the books, I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Yes, they seem to be oriented primarily for children but that doesn't mean adults can't get anything more than nostalgia out of them. Yes they are rich in some symbolism but it is unwise to overanalyse and read too much extraneous ideas into them. Highly recommended to be read as what they are - the product of an amazing mind, which saw the world of children as the ground in which to sow ideas both fun and profound. All the semi-philosophical talks, nonsense poems, fantastical creatures combine to make an unforgettable work.
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Summary: "Alice" is a Difficult Read
Review: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking glass are two interesting stories. When I was a child, I watched the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland and enjoyed it. I've watched it again recently and find it very strange. I came across the book, "Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass" in an old library at my Grandparent's house. This was an old English version, which may have made it more difficult to read and comprehend then if it was in common dialect. The first story, Alice in Wonderland, is the better of the two. It tells of a dreamland that a seven-year old Alice is visiting. This book jumps around a lot, and it is difficult to keep track of who's who by the end. The second story, "Through the Looking Glass", was worse then the first one. It is once again in a dreamland of a world seen backwards from Alice's own world in the reflection of a mirror. When Alice enters this world, there are about two chapters before they enter the difficult analagy of telling the story through a game of chess. This is extremely hard to follow, seeing as you have to visualize the chessboard in your mind. Each seperate story takes place on a different tile while Alice is a pawn waiting to be Queened. In the end of the story, she is Queened and has tea with the other two queens, that is, the white and red queens. The dissapointing conclusion was that Alice was really in her world the whole time and her kittens were the queens in the story. I found both stories a challenging read, and was relieved when the book was finally over!
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Summary: Alice's magical world
Review: Alice in Wonderland is my favorite book, and it has the sequel Through the Looking glass. This book is fantasy with a lot of humor in it. When I was little someone who came to our house gave the book to me. I never started reading it until I was in the 5th grade. But still I thought the book was too long so I never finished it in 5th grade. But in 6th grade I read the whole book and loved it, and I read it again this year. I think I could read this book 1 million times and still want to read it 1million times again! In the first story, Alice in Wonderland, It is about a girl named Alice. Alice is in this wonderful, magical place where creatures she never thought of come to life. It all starts with a white rabbit holding a pocket watch saying, "I'm late, I'm late." Alice is very curious (who wouldn't be!) so she follows him and ends up falling through a hole, and it is a long, long fall. She comes to a room where strange things happen to Alice. She has a tea party with mad, crazy people, she meets the queen and finds out that the queen isn't decent at all! In the second story, Through the Looking glass, Alice meets a bunch of weird creatures. Alice steps into looking glass house where she is in a giant chess game and on her way to becoming queen Alice. And a lot of exciting and weird things happen along the way. I highly recommend this book to anyone in the 6th grade up. It is the kind of book that you can't stop reading. You get attached to the characters, and books that do that to me, I love, because you know you are enjoying the book. So if you like fantasy and like to have a few laughs, this is the book you have to read!
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Summary: Alice's adventure
Review: Alice's adventure in Wonderland somehow becomes your own. It's so magically written, I recommend it to anyone who likes a good laugh or perhaps likes everything that makes no sence what so ever!!
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Summary: A masterpiece.
Review: Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland tells you the story of Alice a young 7 year old girl. Alice has quite an imagination, infact it's her imagination that creates the mad world of Wonderland. It is completely weird, funny, and entertaining. Alice meets with many classic "mad" characters, such as the Cheshire Cat, and the mad hatter. this isn't only for children, it is for anybody. it has such a strange story and strange characters it makes Star trek look like Full House(just kidding). This is kind of freaky at some poinys seriously. This also comes with through the Looking Glass(the reason why I took out a star). That was really Dodgsons cry ofr money. (Dodgson was reall lewis Carrols last name. his full name is Charles Dodgson). I would give "Through the Looking Glass" a 3 out of 5 because it asn't realy as good as the original. The Story of the second one was very thin and stupid... I would reccomend this. ~Dan~~~~~~~~~~
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Summary: A classic
Review: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an imaginative masterpiece. It has meaning beyond telling you about wonderland, because it gives you riddles and poems that make you think. This book also contains through the looking glass,the second and last Alice book. This is one of the best and imaginative books in my opinion ever wrote. Bravo!
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Summary: better the second time through
Review: completely imaginative, creative, and individual.. there are so many signs and contexts that i originally as a child completely overlooked that are funny, serious, and inspirational! and you got to love the riddles!
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