Sign in with Facebook
Danielle The Book Huntress 's Reviews > Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by
by
Danielle The Book Huntress 's review
bookshelves: animal-centered-fiction, children-s-classics, classic, audiobook, library-checkout, alternate-dimension-or-world, 2015-classics-for-beginners-challen
Mar 09, 2017
bookshelves: animal-centered-fiction, children-s-classics, classic, audiobook, library-checkout, alternate-dimension-or-world, 2015-classics-for-beginners-challen
This is a hard book to rate. Honestly, most of it is quite silly. I have seen movie versions and adaptations and I knew that it was pretty bizarre. But in the reading, it's a bit...well, absurd. If that is one what is expecting, it's a pretty good book. I think that one has to have a high tolerance for silly puns. Some of which are a bit obscure for a modern audience, but I think that kids that read it during that era would have appreciated it.
What I liked the most about it, is, well, Alice. She's adorable. She has the clear and genuine logic and outlook of a child, and I like that about her. She's a bit precocious, but not in an obnoxious way. If she not had been, well, I'm sure she would have found Wonderland quite scary and maybe had a nervous breakdown. She approaches this bizarre place of Wonderland from her vantage point and takes everything pretty well (and with a fair amount of acceptance), considering...
I laughed pretty loud at the absurdity and I loved the narrator, Marianne Margulies's impersonations of the characters. The croquet game was fantastically written and the court scene was pretty funny as well. I kept yelling "Off With His Head," along with the Red Queen. I thought the end was a bit abrupt, but I guess it makes sense in context. There are some sad, poignant aspects that hit the right note as well (the way that the story hits on the mourning one feels for the innocence and joy of childhood as an adult).
It's nice to have read this book and to see that many versions of the book in tv/movies do a good job of capturing the essence of the novel. Generally, movies don't do so well, but I think Alice has been treated fairly faithfully throughout the years.
I will probably read some critical essays on the work and see what I pick up about some of the hidden meanings and themes and cultural relevance, since I'm not really sure about that. On surface value, it was fun and silly, and pretty enjoyable. I recommend getting this on audio. The puns and songs were a lot more funny this way.
Overall rating: 3.5/5.0 stars.
What I liked the most about it, is, well, Alice. She's adorable. She has the clear and genuine logic and outlook of a child, and I like that about her. She's a bit precocious, but not in an obnoxious way. If she not had been, well, I'm sure she would have found Wonderland quite scary and maybe had a nervous breakdown. She approaches this bizarre place of Wonderland from her vantage point and takes everything pretty well (and with a fair amount of acceptance), considering...
I laughed pretty loud at the absurdity and I loved the narrator, Marianne Margulies's impersonations of the characters. The croquet game was fantastically written and the court scene was pretty funny as well. I kept yelling "Off With His Head," along with the Red Queen. I thought the end was a bit abrupt, but I guess it makes sense in context. There are some sad, poignant aspects that hit the right note as well (the way that the story hits on the mourning one feels for the innocence and joy of childhood as an adult).
It's nice to have read this book and to see that many versions of the book in tv/movies do a good job of capturing the essence of the novel. Generally, movies don't do so well, but I think Alice has been treated fairly faithfully throughout the years.
I will probably read some critical essays on the work and see what I pick up about some of the hidden meanings and themes and cultural relevance, since I'm not really sure about that. On surface value, it was fun and silly, and pretty enjoyable. I recommend getting this on audio. The puns and songs were a lot more funny this way.
Overall rating: 3.5/5.0 stars.
Sign into Goodreads to see if any of your friends have read
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Sign In »
Reading Progress
February 21, 2015
–
Started Reading
February 22, 2015
–
Finished Reading
February 24, 2015
– Shelved as:
animal-centered-fiction
February 24, 2015
– Shelved as:
children-s-classics
February 24, 2015
– Shelved as:
classic
February 24, 2015
– Shelved as:
audiobook
February 24, 2015
– Shelved as:
library-checkout
February 24, 2015
– Shelved as:
alternate-dimension-or-world
February 26, 2015
– Shelved as:
2015-classics-for-beginners-challen
March 9, 2017
– Shelved
Comments Showing 1-8 of 8 (8 new)
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Jim
(new)
Feb 25, 2015 03:45AM
I really liked this as an audio book, too.
reply
|
flag
I ever tried to read the book but give up :)
I never liked reading the original, either. Listening was a different matter, though. Don't know why, but sometime the reader makes all the difference.
I don't think I would get very far too fast reading this, with all the strange word plays and songs.
I do love an audiobook with an exceptional narrator, and had no
Oops. Premature posting. I was going to say I hadn't thought about rereading Alice as an adult but if the narration is that good, it might be time. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: the novel Alice I Have Been, which explores the controversial relationship between Charles Dodgeson/Lewis Carroll and the real-life child Alice. It's in the form of a memoir by Alice in the last years of her life. Poignant, thought provoking.
It makes sense that it would work as an audiobook; it began as stories told aloud to the real-life child Alice and her sisters.
I think there might have been a movie about the real life Alice. Maybe based on that memoir?
