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A review by rachel_a_king
Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
2.0
I'm sure I'm not the first person to say this, but I just have to write a review (and I usually don't!).
I started reading this book, having grown up on the animated Disney version, prepared to fall in love. I had held out on reading it for so SO long and when I finally got around to it... I was horribly let down. Maybe this book has been hyped up so much it was never going to be good enough... But it's worse than that - I actively did NOT enjoy the book. I only finished Adventures In Wonderland out of spite, and started and finished Through the Looking Glass (which was SLIGHTLY better, hence the two stars and not just one...) through pure stubbornness. Maybe I just don't get it, but I don't see why this book is so widely held up as such a classic. Alice was (excuse my language) an annoying little shit the first half, everybody was rude as hell and everything was random and confusing. I felt like I was reading Carroll's fever dream, and wondered what he'd been smoking while he wrote it most of my read through. In fact, at some point I was so miserable reading this I told my mother that everybody that reads this book suffers so much, they decide to keep quite about it and pass on the misery to future, unsuspecting readers. Now that I'm past it, I assume there really are people that enjoy this book, but I sure wasn't one of them.
I started reading this book, having grown up on the animated Disney version, prepared to fall in love. I had held out on reading it for so SO long and when I finally got around to it... I was horribly let down. Maybe this book has been hyped up so much it was never going to be good enough... But it's worse than that - I actively did NOT enjoy the book. I only finished Adventures In Wonderland out of spite, and started and finished Through the Looking Glass (which was SLIGHTLY better, hence the two stars and not just one...) through pure stubbornness. Maybe I just don't get it, but I don't see why this book is so widely held up as such a classic. Alice was (excuse my language) an annoying little shit the first half, everybody was rude as hell and everything was random and confusing. I felt like I was reading Carroll's fever dream, and wondered what he'd been smoking while he wrote it most of my read through. In fact, at some point I was so miserable reading this I told my mother that everybody that reads this book suffers so much, they decide to keep quite about it and pass on the misery to future, unsuspecting readers. Now that I'm past it, I assume there really are people that enjoy this book, but I sure wasn't one of them.