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A review by bellatora
Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot
1.0
I cannot take this. It is way TOO WEIRD.
First of all, it doesn’t have a plot, which I didn’t realize – I thought it would be a twist on Alice in Wonderland. Instead, it’s a history of Sunderland, which I didn’t know before but now know is a real place.
It’s in a bizarre, surreal style. It’s not in any kind of logical order, either by topic or chronology. It has the story of Lewis Carroll mixed in (sporadically) and random characters (or, well, people in rabbit masks and the Mad Hatter and such) mixed in.
While Sunderland has some interesting and rich history, I just cannot take this format. It’s like Horrible Histories on an acid trip.
First of all, it doesn’t have a plot, which I didn’t realize – I thought it would be a twist on Alice in Wonderland. Instead, it’s a history of Sunderland, which I didn’t know before but now know is a real place.
It’s in a bizarre, surreal style. It’s not in any kind of logical order, either by topic or chronology. It has the story of Lewis Carroll mixed in (sporadically) and random characters (or, well, people in rabbit masks and the Mad Hatter and such) mixed in.
While Sunderland has some interesting and rich history, I just cannot take this format. It’s like Horrible Histories on an acid trip.