Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale

How cheerfully he seems to grin
How neatly spread his claws
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws

an iconic masterpiece consider if it had never been written how much poorer we would all be

fav characters were definitely Cheshire Cat & Mad Hatter.

This book added nothing to me on any level (characters, plot, world)

I really wanted to read this book because I have always loved the movies, and I do enjoy myself some unhinged storytelling, but this wasn't really a story. It felt more like a bunch of weird unrelated short stories. It doesn't follow a story or any goal or moral or anything. That makes it feel like nothing really happens.

It's also that the characters involved are uninteresting and unlikeable. Alice herself is weird and doesn't really interact with the world in a meaningful way, she doesn't try to understand it or learn from it, she is also just a nice person to be honest. I thought it would be fun but it got me in a giant reading slump. 

A classic 👌 

This book is very cool.

Re-read.

Well, I guess I can now say I read it. That's really all I can say...other than noting I just don't get the appeal or how this has lasted through the years. Maybe you need to be a pre-adolescent girl to enjoy it. Or maybe I'm just a Philistine.

This is a children's book, but a wonderful one. I didn't expect to like this book or find its language accessible, considering it was written over 150 years ago. But I was wrong, it's easy to see how this book has held its place as a classic for so many years.

It's made to be read to children, it has a story that will have most kids asking for "just one more page" instead of falling asleep.

8/10

This was fun. Delightfully mad.

I enjoyed this book.

Un libro que me hubiera encantado leer de niña, sin embargo lo he disfrutado muchísimo y me encontre varias veces riéndome en vos alta. Extraño en todos los aspectos pero realmente sabio.

A classic. Nothing else I could say.

Such a cute little story! Just an absolutely lovely adventure narrated wonderfully by Scarlett Johansson. Like it was so well done by Scarlett. I can't even. With the voices and everything just ahh... This audiobook was great.

2.5

Wonderous playfulness sown into children's prose - fascinating to both the pony and the dejected man in overalls. Intertwining logic and its negators in engaging subjects ranging from folly, tea, and dishes' flee. Its dialogue witty, illogical and logical, and - most especially - fun. Love how Lewis Carrol plays with language so lucidly. I wonder how Wittgenstein liked his eggs.

Quite surreal with lots of clever language-plays. Kind of exhausted following the story through, though. Much like Alice herself being dragged around and around by her (mis)adventures.

Yes, I hold up my hand and admit that I'm one of those who has seen the 1951 animated Disney motion picture after having been treated to it (on VHS, no less) for one of my birthdays as a child, and now having read the first part of its source material, Disney did a fantastic job of adapting this “nonsense” to the big screen.

I do say “nonsense” kindly of course. Does the story make sense? No, not at all, but that's the idea! I've worked with children who were given free rein to write stories and their ideas were usually bonkers and all over the place. That's what made this fun, if perhaps a little frustrating for adult readers in that it doesn't follow a logical sequence of beginning, middle and end. I bet Lewis Carroll had great fun writing it, however.

I'd thoroughly recommend the audio book version narrated by Miriam Margolyes, who does a smashing job of narrating it and bringing Carroll's nonsensical characters to life.

Kindle Edition: 4/5
Audible Edition: 5/5

I am unable to objectively say if this is a good book or not, because it is an iconic book to me, and will always be a good book to me.
There is magic in Alice, even more in Through the Looking Glass. It is never the same tale twice. Every time I read it, I find something new, it's like the core of the story is the same, but the details change...

This was a very difficult 2 hours for me with listening. I don't know if it is because it is an old book and my brain just couldn't process what the words meant or what.

Perfectly describes a dream with easy and fast-pace writing.
Fun wordplay.

Having never read the book before and only seen the movie, I wasn’t super sure what to expect from this and largely chose it due to length. Turns out the movie was pretty close to the book. Fun listen and Scarlett Johansson did a good job of doing all the voices.

Review to follow... possibly. A concise analysis of how the story was brilliantly written must lead off. Further, evidence of Alice's interactions left me gleaning nuggets of life's truths in a way a seven year old might come upon them. For instance, the Cheshire Cat explaining that “we're all mad here,” and there's nothing to be done about it, is spot on. If I have time, I'll return with a more thorough explanation of why I enjoyed this book. In the mean time, have a tea, and read this book. It will be a conversation starter for years to come.

What wonderful nonsense Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is! It’s a whimsical journey where logic bends and nonsense reigns. Critics may point to the lack of plot or the randomness, but these quirks make it charming. This is a story meant for a child’s imagination, unbound by adult logic, and full of delightful surprises. I’m excited to continue with Through the Looking-Glass to see if the magic still holds up in the next adventure.