So far, I think that most of the books on the list had several things going for them.

What also didn’t help, was the dry as dirt 80-page introductory notes and 100+ pages of end-notes and additional material in the back of this volume. Even by the proper standards, adjusted to seven year-olds, she’s annoying to an extreme degree. Alice is a whiny kid, obsessed with doing the proper things to do. Sure, there are a couple of entertaining episodes in the book, but overall, I thought it was a bore. When I put together my list of 40 books to read before my 40th birthday, I thought that Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There might be a nice fit: after all, it is a classic, and I probably wouldn’t have read it otherwise.Īs it turns out, I probably wouldn’t have missed much if I hadn’t read them. All I remember of it was that Alice was a bit of a whiny kid, and that it was pretty out there.

I think I’ve seen Disney’s Alice in Wonderland only once, many years ago. Posted J& filed under 40 books before 40, First Lines. First Lines: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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