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

5:

Really, I have nothing to say other than this is one of my favorite classics, right up there with Tom Sawyer. Add to this the fact that I found the most incredible and perfectly executed full-cast audiobook version of this story for free on YouTube, and it elevates this to God-tier storytelling. Gosh I'm just DYING to know if there's a similar version for Through the Looking Glass and I just haven't been able to find it.

Alice is one of my favorite heroines in fiction, she's just delightfully off her rocker. This story is just so silly, whipping one-liners at you in quick succession, with boggling attempts at conversation that are entertaining for anyone, small and big. I don't think there ever will be anything quite like it, so everyone stop trying. Chop chop.

This was a fun, light read that will make your day! It's always fun meeting all the characters and going along with Alice in Wonderland.

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.

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.

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.

I enjoyed this book.

Scarlett Johansson is so much better at voice acting than I thought she would be, she should do more of book readings

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.

Surely, I thought, surely this book can't be as unhinged as all the media inspired by it.

I was WRONG.

I was just going to read this to say I had done it, since I've seen the Disney and live-action films based off of it and I was curious what the source material was. I'm not really a fan of classics or children's books, so I wasn't expecting much, but this book absolutely charmed me.

This book is pure nonsense but in the absolute best way. I was genuinely laughing at how out-of-pocket some of the moments were. Most of the time something wild happens and you just kind of have to throw your hands up and say “Well! Alright then!” but it was all very enjoyable. This book made me laugh more than once, which is surprising for a short children's classic. I didn't expect I would have a review to even leave at the end cause I imagined I wouldn't have much to say, but here I am.

Probably my new favorite classic, and one of the only ones I've read that I think is truly timeless.

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.

This book is very cool.

A classic. Nothing else I could say.

A classic 👌 

fav characters were definitely Cheshire Cat & Mad Hatter.

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

8/10

This was fun. Delightfully mad.

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, rapid, undoubtedly LSD-fueled descent into absurdity. And it turns out the Disney movie really does do it justice.

I've listened to this on Audible. This was my very first audiobook and Scarlett Johansson's narration was amazing!

What to say about this timeless story? It's fantastic albeit there is something lost not knowing the time when it was written. Still a classic to be remembered for centuries to come.

Re-read.

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

This has to be absolute favorite classic of all time. I didn't realize this was first published in 1865!! What a wonderful, enchanting and wildly fun book.

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...