Books by Lewis Carroll
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review 1: The Peake drawings are wonderful and both books are so different. The Looking-glass book has a darkness to it that is quite special and it's definitely, with the plum-pudding Snap-dragon-fly and Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the curioser book. The books have a melancholy which I did...
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review 1: I liked it a lot, but I still think that man was really high when he wrote it.
review 2: am I too old for it? honestly I don't know. I didn't enjoy the randomness of this book.
review 2: am I too old for it? honestly I don't know. I didn't enjoy the randomness of this book.
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review 1: Reviews are mixed: my 7 and 9 yr old boys loved it (because it was so silly) but my 5 yr old couldn't stand it and protested loudly when it came time to read it. Personally, I can see why it has been a classic of children's literature but I prefer the Wizard of Oz series. We on...
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review 1: I wasn't expecting there to be so much play with language. Very imaginative and clever.
review 2: I immensely enjoyed reading Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
review 2: I immensely enjoyed reading Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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review 1: Alice nel paese delle meraviglie 4/5Attraverso lo specchio 3/5
review 2: 7/10 Alice's adventures in Wonderland9/10 Through the Looking-Glass
review 2: 7/10 Alice's adventures in Wonderland9/10 Through the Looking-Glass
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review 1: Ok. I have very mixed feelings about this story. I flew through Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and although found it to be both confusing and pointless, I enjoyed it. By the time I finished Through The Looking Glass I had had enough of the stupid nonsense and couldn't see how ...
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review 1: Dreams are generally strange, confusing, and sometimes scary, but the dreams that Alice journeys through are more extreme than "normal". In the novel, Alice in Wonderland; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found there, Lewis Carroll use...
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review 1: Along with the Ancient Mariner, Frankenstein, Tales of an English Opium Eater, and the Saragossa Manuscripts these are amongst the numerous works written under the influence of opium during the 19 th century. Remember the great refrain from the Jefferson Airplane:When logic and p...
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review 1: This was a long indulgence for a read, but well worth it. While Alice's world is by far the best known in this book, the "Other Stories" are the draw. The tale of Sylvie and Bruno became the closest to my heart and I even shed a tear or two at some points within their stories. ...
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review 1: This enormous bind-up of Lewis Carroll's tales can only be for the devoted fans. I ended up skipping a lot, even though I swore I would read the whole thing. I did enjoy Alice in Wonderland and some verse, but I don't even know where most of it was going. I read 150 pages of Sylv...
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review 1: A very short, amusing, and insightful essay on "feeding the mind". Carroll analogizes eating (for the body) to reading (for the mind). We do not eat meal after meal after meal, until we are utterly sick; instead, we eat one meal and let it digest before diving in to the next. O...