After Alice

This book was challenging to read. It was as if someone had randomly deleted about two-thirds of the words. There are some real philosophic gems buried in here if you can get through it.

Perhaps my confusion lies in a lack of familiarity with the original text. I plan to reread ‘Alice in Wonderland' and then reconsider this one.

So many big words... it's hard to see the story under all of them.

Ok... so she needed to get the iron corset off... but why did she get off her underwear that's UNDER the iron corset and doesn't stop her from getting off the iron corset? Why is she naked?

Why is Lydia such a bitch?

I suppose Lewis Carroll had Asperger's, because it seems to me that Gregory Maguire thought he was mean, and I don't read that in Alices.

I bet this guy is American. Because he thinks Victorian Englishmen didn't have milk. Also, he thinks that barley water takes about as much time as lemonade. Although lemonade properly made takes more than five minutes. Because you get better lemonade when you make sugar syrup and not mix the sugar in the water. But, what ever.

Also, 15 years old girls were already little ladies, and knew well enough what was appropriate and what was not.

I'm having difficulties in finding anything positive about this... I kind of like Ada though, and that's kind of a big plus, but... uh. Gregory Maguire should have let Lewis Carroll be.