Annotated Alice : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

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Summary: Some classic.
Review: This book was confusing and the story was horrible. I think that this is a bad book. The characters eccentric and not that interesting. I didn't like it one bit.

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Summary: I could read it again and again and again!
Review: This is the best book I've ever read! I'm fourteen and it's not "cool" to stay home and read "baby" books (Which it is definitly not!). I LOVE this book and I DO read it over again once I finish. I usually can only manage a couple of chapters a night but that's ok. My fav character will always be the White Knight!

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Summary: This book is necessary, in all senses of the word
Review: Victorian-era readers of Lewis Carroll's delightful fantasies knew the poetry and song and public figures referred to; we moderns need to have the jokes explained to us, and Martin Gardner does a masterful job of it. We're fortunately past the more bizarre Freudian and Marxist interpretations of Alice that Gardner takes to task in his preface, but Gardner's annotations survive, as they should. The White Knight's encounter with Alice is heartbreaking when you know the background information, the lyric the White Knight's doggerel alludes to. By all means, give this to children at risk of being pithed by exposure to a certain indigo reptile; as children, they'll appreciate the story, and as they mature, they'll appreciate the commentary, and you'll have saved a budding intellect.