'Alice in Wonderland' is truly a classic and should be read by all ages, especially the young, this means when they read it again when they're our age, they’ll enjoy it all the more. Every page is exciting, mysterious, creative and full of wonder, Carroll has a way with his imagination, ... Read review
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musical comedy - widely regarded as the most lavish and most faithful adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel.Alice is listening to a story told by Lewis Carroll when a white rabbit runs by. Alice follows the rabbit down a hole and then falls deep into the centre of the earth, where she lands, on a bed of leaves in an endless corridor. Thus begins an extraordinary adventure for Alice as she goes on to meet a variety of weird and wonderful characters including a Caterpillar, Tweedledum And Tweedledee, a Countess and her grinning Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse.Filmed to mark the centenary of the completion of the Alice novels, this is an extravagantly lush British spectacle, which brings Sir John Tennial's famous illustrations enchantingly to life with a bewitching score by 007 composer John Barry and BAFTA-winning cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth (2001: A Space Odyssey).
Bored on a hot afternoon Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole without giving a ... more
thought about how she might get out. And so she tumbles into Wonderland: where animals answer back a baby turns into a pig time stands still at a disorderly tea party croquet is played with hedgehogs and flamingos and the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille. In a land in which nothing is as it seems and cakes potions and mushrooms can make her shrink to ten inches or grow to the size of a house will Alice be able to find her way home again?
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Advantages: lets your imagination run riot Disadvantages: lets your imagination run riot!
'Alice in Wonderland' is truly a classic and should be read by all ages, especially the young, this means when they read it again when they're our age, they’ll enjoy it all the more. Every page is exciting, mysterious, creative and full of wonder, Carroll has a way with his imagination, he pulls you into his riddles, puns and characterisations so you end up believing you ARE Alice. At 10 I was Alice, at 33, I’m still Alice! (just a little ... ...a very creative little girl, intelligent and yearning to learn, but level headed with it, and she works around problems that pop up at every page turn. Ok, I don’t claim to understand all of it, and sometimes I get a little frustrated, but I keep having to remember, this book is meant for kids who still have a vivid imagination and aren’t bogged down with everyday life as adults are.
'Alice in Wonderland' is truly a classic and should be read by all ages, especially the young, this means when they read it again when they're our age, they’ll enjoy it all the more. Every page is exciting, mysterious, creative and full of wonder, Carroll has a way with his imagination, he pulls you into his riddles, puns and characterisations so you end up believing you ARE Alice. At 10 I was Alice, at 33, I’m still Alice! (just a little greying!)
Alice is 7 years old and a very creative little girl, intelligent and yearning to learn, but level headed with it, and she works around problems that pop up at every page turn. Ok, I don’t claim to understand all of it, and sometimes I get a little frustrated, but I keep having to remember, this book is meant for kids who still have a vivid imagination and aren’t bogged down with everyday life as adults are.
This is a clever and very unique book, it’s the bizarre creatures (chess playing cards, dodgy characters who live on mushrooms and smoke from a bottle ;+), size changing food, and cats that disappear) that I absolutely adore. The surrealism is pretty funky too, I think that Carroll was/is giving a message on how dreams can come true no matter what happens.
I was given this book at 7 years old, and as I was too young to read it all by myself, so my mum helped out and sometimes read it to me (or was she re-reading it for herself?). That’s probably why I feel that I’ve got a connection with it, hearing Mum changing her voice every time a new character came into the plot (what plot!) made me giggle.
If you have kids - read it to them, if they say they’re too old – read it to them, if you don’t have any kids – read it to yourself, you won’t be disappointed. A classic that belongs on every bookshelf, and is also meant for the child in all of us. (And it makes a nice change from those ever-so tacky Jackie Collins novels)
loulou6 12.03.2001
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Review of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Advantages: Invigorates the Imagination Disadvantages: May make you go MAD as a Hatter!
Lewis Carroll was the name Charles Dodgson went by when he wrote his Poetry, Storys etc. This was not his real name! Also, did you know he was a paedophile?
He trained as a mathmatician and this can be seen in many of his books. his storys are very logically constructed and they contain some rather stimulating content.
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland and through the looking glass (nowadays called a mirror) have passed the test of time very ... ...are highly entertaining.
These are both adventures of a young girl, Alice, who goes through exploring as we do the magical and mystical world of what we find out to be Her imagination.
The characters Dodgson created were delightful in there own way - my favourite of which is the opium smoking catapiller. also Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, the Walrus and the Carpenter, the White rabbit, The Queen of hearts, the playing cards, the Mad Hatter, the ...
twilliams 21.01.2004
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...today created by Carroll in Alice's adventures, but there are a lot...for example, the queen of hearts, humpty dumpty, the mad hatter, to name but a few. To create one of those characters would be clever, but them all is ingenius.
To this day I can still recite the poem Jabberwocky...only Carroll can come up with such a technique as to have his character have to read the poem using a mirror to force the reader into paying attention and learning ...
steffee 27.09.2001
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Advantages: Very interesting book (what other advantages can book have?)) Disadvantages: Could have the third part
Every adult must have already enjoyed the subtle humour and seemingly senseless situations of this book, and I think any children must read it, because this story can improve their non-standard meaning and imagination. Thought story was originally written for children, now it is a favourite book for many serious grown-up men – mathematicians, physicians, astronomers. It’s an unusual mix of logic and absurd; some situations, seemingly ... ...and you can find mathematical or logical explanation to anything that looks stupid at first. If you have read the book with no comments and liked it, you should try reading annotated book, you’ll enjoy seeing how mathematicians and physicians explained almost every Carroll’s phrase from the positions of science (do you now why Hatter says that his clock is two days slow, then Alice tells him that today is forth? At the day all was happening ...
graywl 29.06.2001
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Advantages: Compelling and easy to read Disadvantages: Often abridged or without original illustrations these days.
Alice in Wonderland
Here we meet Alice by a river with her older sister in the summer, bored she notices a rabit walking on it's hind legs wearing a waistcoat and looking at a pocket watch muttering he is late. he drops a glove and anxious to help Alice chases him with it and falls down a rabbit hole, where she is transported into a starnge new world.
She meets all sorts of strange characters, the most memorable probably being the Mad Hatter, The ... ...and The Queen of Hearts, who ironically seems to have none. She takes part in tea parties, tries to sooth a screaming pig, shrinks then becomes a giant then shrinks back again, and has to play croguet with a flamingo and hedgehogs amongst other bizarre activities.
I can read this book over and over again, there are many layers to it and you can appreciate it all over again as an adult on another more psychadelic level, it's deffinately one of my ...
NancyRowina 19.12.2005 (23.01.2006)
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Advantages: gives insight to victorian times Disadvantages: i wish it was longer
Considering the fact that the book was writen by an opium addicted pediphile it's a remarkably perceptive book. Children like it because of its fairytale-esque qualities but i think its popularity is due to its favor by adults. Alice in wonderland and Through the looking Glass indirectly depict and summarize Victorian life.
From a feminst viewpoint, the books shows an emporwed young girl in a mans world. She eventaully gains the insight to no longer ...
pinkant 20.05.2001
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The original illustrations in this large casebound format bring a new lease of life to these classic titles. This book contains both stories, and features John Tenniel's original illustrations, which vividly bring the stories to life.While adults can enjoy reading the story at a more metaphorical level, young readers simply dive with Alice down the rabbit hole, following the white rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and the rest of Carroll's fantastic characters.
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