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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Cool Book
Review: This book is cool. It is about a girl who follows a rabbit into the world of wonderland. She falls down a deep hole into the rabbit's house. She has a hard time getting out. She gets through the whole wonderland chasing a white rabbit that always thinks that it is late. She eventually gets to the queens land and the queen wants to chop of her head.
She is about it be hacked to death by a pack of lifesize cards and then.... she wakes up.
The second book in this book, she walks through the mirror and she enters a backwards world.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pure Genius!
Review: This book is genius (in a nonsensical sort of way). Which is the best way! If you've only seen the movie you are being deprived of a wonderful experience. I ended up finishing the book in a day. Okay I'm going to stop babbling because there are no words to describe how great this book is.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: More than meets the eye..........
Review: 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?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Madfun for every-one
Review: This is arguably the greatest of all childrens' books, and one of the classics of world- literature. There is madness here and method in the madness. There is a story, a heroine, and her meeting with zany characters and a zany world whose rules seem to change with each person she meets. There is wordplay, and there is logical laughter and conundrum. There is seemingly something for everyone.
It is possible to be frightened to near death by the Queen of Hearts or to become broken and wise like Humpty Dumpty ." Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/ All the kings' horses/ and all the Kings' men/ could not put Humpty Dumpty / together again.
The weird wonderland Alice meets is filled with games and play. It is fantasy and fear, it is fun and fright. There is at one point no way out of it and yet there is miraculous transformation which takes you somewhere else completely.
The logic of this world seems at time too sophisticated for children, and yet childlike . Paradox is contradiction with the pain taken out.
There are so many memorable lines and situations here, so much to mean in each sentence , that the work is a wholesale factory for epigraphs and epigrams.
As one who never followed the story very well I nonetheless could see that in this work poetry and logic meet and mix each other up for the general benefit and pleasure of the reader.
This is a book to be read line by favorite line, character by favorite character, incident by favorite incident with amusement and pleasure.


Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Chesire Cat!
Review: This is the ultimate children's book. From the beginning when Alice falls down the Rabbit hole and leaves Dinah, it captivates the reader and enchants the reader. Carroll was a master of outlandish and imaginative fiction and this statement is proven when you read this book.

Dont listen to any of the 'nonsense' that Alice in Wonderland is based on LSD trips etc. This is nothing but people trying to take away Carroll's genius from him.

Great Book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Discordian Chaotic Refreshing and please..yes I like thea
Review: What can be said... much and nothing. Ah yes, through the perils of the principia discordia we learned to forget.. and we find a book to just find it back yet again.

And we do know that Eris is to be found where green grass grows. Yes, this is deep and yet shallow!

I highly suggest to read the principia discordia ..then this book. And, yes some thea to accompagny it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Should be called Alice in Psycholand!
Review: Whoa! I thought I knew it all after watching the water downed Disney version of this marvelous peice of literature, But I was SO incredibly WRONG! Not only did Disney leave some key points of the story out, they also changed many things. This book outdoes any of the possibly good Alice movies out there! It's the absoulute best thing to let your imagination fly and to finally go ahead and ask yourself silly questions like, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" It is an immediate wonder for any personal library and I strongly suggest anyone who loves classic works...or psycho books...to purchase this item and treasure it always.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Best Edition for the budget consumer
Review: You can't go wrong if you're on a budget and want this absolutely delightful classic for all ages.


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