Post #3: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Post number three for the year is Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The version of this story that I own at home actually has both this story and its sequel in one. However, I started reading this book at work, and therefore haven't yet read the sequel - will need to dig up my own copy of the book in order to accomplish that.
I don't have a lot to say, but here's the usual spoiler space just in case.
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As someone who only knows this story through the film versions, I was surprised at how many liberties many of these movies take. Some of the things that happen to Alice in Wonderland weren't in the film, and some things were brought in from the sequel, namely Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the flowers who mistake Alice for a flower. I always love the Chesire Cat and the madness of the croquet game (I laughed at the comment that Alice's biggest problem with the crochet game was managing her flamingo, hee) but the weird side story with the Duchess and the pepper and the weird pig-baby was ... well, odd. I suppose it's silly to ask what the point of it was as the whole story is pretty nonsensical, but that chapter in particular seemed stranger than all the others.
The king must certainly be a patient sort if he can handle living with the Queen whose only joy seems to be sending people to be beheaded (I laughed again at the whole argument about how they could go about beheading the Chesire Cat when the only part of him they could see *was* his head). The Mad Hatter and March Hare were as ridiculous as ever, and the poor White Rabbit really needs to find a new job that won't cause him as much stress. :-P
I'm looking forward to the sequel, as I'd like to see how many of the characters return, and also am looking forward to seeing those elements that have been taken from the sequel that I'm so familiar with.
