Name: Lewis Carroll's Alice
Rating: 3.93557168784029 (1102 reviews)
ISBN: 9780520048157

Lewis Carroll

Barry Moser

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Pennyroyal Edition as designed and illustrated by Barry Moser)

Lewis Carroll's Alice

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Marija

Joana Mae

Rating: 1/5 — “Nope. Absolutely not. Movie na lang please.” Alright, so after thinking about it… yeah. This book? One star. And that star is mostly for cultural impact — not because I actually enjoyed reading it. 😂 While the story is undeniably iconic, *Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland* reads like someone wrote down their fever dream *verbatim* and called it a day. Sure, it's whimsical and imaginative, but the lack of plot, character growth, or emotional anything makes it feel more like a long riddle than an actual story. The pacing is chaotic, the scenes feel disconnected, and Alice herself—bless her—is just kind of… there. Meanwhile, the movies take all the nonsense and turn it into something charming, cohesive, and visually delightful. Watching Wonderland is magical; reading it feels like homework assigned by a teacher who hates joy. If you love surreal nostalgia and Victorian wordplay, cool — this might be your jam. But if you want something engaging, structured, or emotionally resonant? Ooof. Hard pass. Final verdict: Happy I read it, happier it’s over. Movie marathon instead. 🍿

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.

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Scarlett Johansson

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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

Camilla

Tobias V. Langhoff

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.

milly

had it’s cute moments but not enough to keep me entertained

Jaden Nelson

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.

Alice in Wonderland

Briar's Reviews

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.

Alice falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

Wynter

"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.

it was lame! i hate to say it but the movies are better! its not as magical when reading

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