Customer Reviews: Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Soso:
Wonderland: I just finished reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There" in two days. There's a reason why these stories are considered classics. Like "Peter Pan" and "Chronicles of Narnia", these are tales that help us return to our childhood and re-experience the magic that we've felt and imagined. A smoking caterpillar and a disappearing cat may be absurd, but they're really imaginative. And I do believe that "Wonderland" and "Looking-Glass" are open to... Only Two Stars for the Penguin Edition: It's a fantastic book, of course, and it certainly doesn't need me to praise it as millions have done before. It's probably one of the most unique things ever written: the only book that could be considered both completely a children's story and completely a book for adults. The only problem with the Penguin edition is that it's grossly over-annotated. For scholars this may be very helpful, but sadly enough a lot of the notes are either irrelevant to non-professors or provide critical instead of historical... Delightfully silly and witty: I had not read these books since I was probably seven or eight, and I am glad that I finally got around to reading them again. These are some of the most fun childrens books (or any books for that matter) ever written. A previous reviewer gave this book a poor rating because it was only a childrens book. I fail to understand how being a childrens book means that a book is bad. Many childrens book are among the best books that I have ever read. Just because a book is a childrens book does not mean that it is...
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