Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Reviews
dreamlike & surrealist, but maybe that’s because I was half asleep listening to most of this (not because I was bored, I was just tired)
Audiobook
I’ve always been obsessed with Alice in Wonderland. I’ve watched every single movie portrayal even the horror movies, a genre that I haaate, but I never read the books. I enjoyed this just as much as the movies (except the horror ones) and I’m so glad I finally got around to it. The only reason I gave this 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the last book. I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first two.
Fun story to listen to while doing chores.
I really enjoyed reading this for the first time. It's been so good and fun to read.
Although "it was actually a dream" is a fine trope to use in children's books, I felt like reading this book actually was like a dream. And not in the good, dreamy way of imagination, but in the way that most dreams don't seem to make a lot of sense when you wake up. There really is no narrative thread in dreams, plotlines are dropped or introduced willy-nilly, they're absurd, and there's rarely any narrative closure. That's what the story of this book was like, too; it just felt like Alice was dreaming the whole time. I like a good book or movie that feels like a fever dream, like Pynchon or Lynch, but this one had none of that urgent fever dream surrealism (although I guess that wouldn't fit well in a children's book anyway). But it was well written, especially the puns and wordplay! I really enjoyed those. It was interesting to see how much creative license Disney employed (had to employ?) in their movie version. The Mad Hatter is a completely different character here, and we don't really see him much.
had it’s cute moments but not enough to keep me entertained
Fun little story that I enjoyed listening to. First of all, the speaker of the audio book was great and enthusiastic, which just added to the wonderful and whimsical and magical imagery. Nice to listen to.
More like 2,5 / 5... I don't know why, but it's kinda overrated. I think i'm the only one who never read Alice's adventures in wonderland or watched the movie when i was a kid. It wasn't that bad to be honest, it isn't just as good as i expected it to be.
3'5 cute & funny book !!
Alice in Wonderland was a good read, but not something that kept me hooked on. For a novel created way back when by Lewis Carroll, I find it to be a wonderful read. The book has good themes that I liked picking out here and there. The novel wasn't action packed, but it is a child's novel and an older novel at that. I did enjoy the book, but it isn't something I would read over and over for the sake of enjoyment. I enjoyed it though! I read this book because I have seen many television and movie adaptions of this book and I wanted to read the material all of it was based on. Very good but not my style, personally. Two out of five stars.
Dessa vez achei o Através do Espelho mil vezes melhor e mais gostoso de ler. Mas o amor e a nostalgia pela obra como um todo continuam os mesmos.
such a fever dream story and i love it
"Well, then, ' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad." Ha, I never thought about it that way! Alice in Wonderland is a classic for a reason: it perfectly captures the inquiring and imaginative nature of childhood. The quirkiness and madness of Wonderland is simply a child trying to make sense of her world, and it's positively a lovely thing to witness.
how can a novel so absurd make the most sense out of everything ive ever read?
Only read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, not the second book.
the ending was really great actually... though it was too fast paced and crazy for my taste. what a wild ride
One of my favorite classics.
it was lame! i hate to say it but the movies are better! its not as magical when reading
On my tour of classics I really wanted to read the source material that inspired all the Alice in Wonderland movies. Unfortunately though, I found the story disjointed and confusing, and I just didn’t like any of the characters. It felt a little like a creative writing project in which the author wrote various little snippets of stories and just mashed it together under the guise of: adventures in a strange magical wonderland. It’s a pity, as I really wanted to like it, but alas
So plotwise, this book didn't blow me away. It was both whimsical and nonsensical but the story alone just didn't charm me. This is just a 2/5 stars for me. I am going to dive deeper into the story and discover the hidden meanings. I might change my rating then. FULL REVIEW TO COME.
This is the first ebook i read!
This book is so random and I'm glad I chose t to listen to an audiobook version because otherwise, I wouldn't be able to finish it. The language was a bit tedious, and there's not much of a plot, just Alice randomly stumbled upon one weird random shit over another. For some reason, I really liked the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter. Overall, it's like tripping on LSD, because (IIRC) this book is what it's all about.
At first I liked this book because my parents read it to me a lot when I was a little girl, it was innocent for me, and the reason I read it again is the complete opposite. The history of Alice and the writer involved me in the book tightly, I began researching about Alice and in a fast pace it turned to be a huge research about the illnesses of the characters in the book. This book is so fascinating and different. It makes me ask questions and actually sit and think for hours to no end, this is mad! The queen, the mad hater they are just characters! But they hold so much more. A history, a psychological sickness history. Why does Alice fantasizes about such weird and unbelievable things. Why is she changing sizes? Why, why, why.
Highlights
"I ca'n't help it," said Alice very meekly: "Im growing."
"You've no right to grow here," said the Dormouse.
"Don't talk nonsense", said Alice more boldly: "you know you're growing too."
"Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace," said the Dormouse: "not in that ridiculous fashion." And he got up very sulkily and crossed over to the other side of the court.
"And how many hours a day did you do lessons?" said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
"Ten hours the first day," said the Mock Turtle: nine the next, and so on.
"What a curious plan!" exclaimed Alice.
"That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day."
The executioner’s argument was, that you couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin at his time of life.
The Kings argument was that anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.
The Queen's argument was that, if something wasn't done about it in less than no time, she’d have everybody executed, all round.
So she went off in search of her hedgehog.
The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her Flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way flying into a tree.
"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice: "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!"
"Found what?" said the Duck.
"Found it," the Mouse replied rather crossly: "of course you know what it means."
"I know what it means well enough, when I find a thing," said the Duck: "it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?"
'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'Idon't much care where–' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
If you don't know where you're going, any road can take you there
'"You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.'..."
'"I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!..."'