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A review by shreyas1599
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
4.0
I have heard references of Alice in wonderland but put off reading it for a long time. Also, reading articles about Lewis Carol being a paedophile didn’t help matters in me willingly wanting to pick up and read this book. For sure, his dastardly characteristics should not stop me from appreciating a book that he wrote that is widely spoken about with a lot of acclaim, but no one really can keep their bias out of these things how much ever they say so. They are lying to you. It leads me to the famous quote which often gets thrown around:
Never meet your heroes
But I digress. I picked this book as part of a goal to read as many books as I can from the Books that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime list. Coming to the book itself, it’s so wild and fantastical and preposterous that that were several instances where I just mock-laughed out loud. For sure, the premise of the story itself is fantastical. But the entire story to me is entirely plausible from the perspective of a child. In fact, I probably and all of us, as children did possibly and probably dream and daydream on such whimsical scales. And even tried to explain and justify the ridiculousness to our parents or any other party that was willing to lend a ear to the ridiculous fantasy.
The story brings back some wonderful memories of childhood, where everything was so much simpler and reality was a far and distant thought. The times were good where the only thing I had to worry about is waking up and going to school and dreaming and daydreaming about the world and building fictional characters in my head and listening to other children about their fictional characters. Oh well, those were good while they lasted.
The writing itself was very imaginative and a joy to read. I quite liked the assortment of animals present in the story abd the mock anger, mini-fights and all those executions!
Never meet your heroes
But I digress. I picked this book as part of a goal to read as many books as I can from the Books that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime list. Coming to the book itself, it’s so wild and fantastical and preposterous that that were several instances where I just mock-laughed out loud. For sure, the premise of the story itself is fantastical. But the entire story to me is entirely plausible from the perspective of a child. In fact, I probably and all of us, as children did possibly and probably dream and daydream on such whimsical scales. And even tried to explain and justify the ridiculousness to our parents or any other party that was willing to lend a ear to the ridiculous fantasy.
The story brings back some wonderful memories of childhood, where everything was so much simpler and reality was a far and distant thought. The times were good where the only thing I had to worry about is waking up and going to school and dreaming and daydreaming about the world and building fictional characters in my head and listening to other children about their fictional characters. Oh well, those were good while they lasted.
The writing itself was very imaginative and a joy to read. I quite liked the assortment of animals present in the story abd the mock anger, mini-fights and all those executions!