Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

$4.5 for Alice and $3.5 with change for her Looking Glass. It is nice to experience Alice in a non-Disney format. I loved the poetry, the logical fallacies, the absurdity of it all. I loved Lewis Carroll's prose. Carroll wrote with clean, beautiful sharpness filled with word games, puns and riddles. The clarity of his prose serves as a counterweight for the fancy of his imagination and the smoke of his dreamscapes. Through the Looking Glass was more of the same, but just didn't ride my fancy as well. Page did an admirable job of keeping up with Carroll's quickie, tricky prose.

Not only are these two books amazing but the audiobook is very fun to listen to. Michael Page does a great job. This audiobook is worth having and can be enjoyed by young and old.

Very fun story. I have seen various Alice in Wonderland movies, and none of them capture Lewis Carrolls whimsy, entertainment, and insight like the book. It is a fun often non-sensical adventure with a lot of clever insights such as Alice "often giving herself good advice, but very seldom following it." All the characters are interesting, but Carroll creates his most intriguing character in Alice. She is precocious but loveable and a very deep thinker- at least in her own mind.

the book had been sitting for nearly forty years on my bookshelve. the narrator, who could be a company of narrators by himself, enticed me to dust off the book.

I have always loved Alice, but this is a great version to listen to over and over. The reader is great, and the story is a classic. I highly recommend this for everyone!

I really don't get it. I can not understand what or how this things happens to Alice. Alice is a bit hard to understand, it might be because I am at bit to old for it and her wonder and misunderstandings. But I am glad that I have heard it, it is classic and it is something that many knows so it is a good idee to get through.

The beginning of this review must not be understated. What have I been missing all these years? Admittedly, this is a first read. And while chucking the shame of having not read it until 47 (yes, that is the current age of said reviewer!), I am flushed with pleasure of having made the trip(they were originally published separately). On listening to it, I quickly noticed Carroll's playing out, if not outright scorn, for logical fallacies, and while on a few occasions Alice displays a few of her own, there is such a heavy handedness in the use of ill-logic by the "adults" of the story, that I wonder if Carroll isn't taking more than a few digs into the minds of adults, who from time to time engage in circuitous and contradictory arguments. Both books seem to be playing with and poking fun at the fact that as adults, the bigger wonders are often reduced to such reductionism in order to boost one's ego, which you see time and time again with all the adult characters in the book. In fact, a primer for reading this book may in fact be C. K. Chesterton's argument for fantasy in the Introduction to this edition:

"It seemed to me that he didn't follow me with sufficient delicacy, so I softened my tone. 'Can you not see", I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward;but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul is sane,but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is-what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world?" (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass; Introduction, vi).

Alice's reactions to those who claim to be much more mature than her, can rest with her wonder as a child not to be corrupted by the cynicism of ideas reduced to mere philosophical positions and suppositions. This would be one of the main points in the conversion of C.S. Lewis to Christianity. And to some respects, it is an invitation for us to give our minds a rest, and let the universe pan itself out. Alice comes out much better than her "betters", because she is willing to let go, as many children do, rather than be sucked in and drowned in a world of so many abstractions that one misses the opportunity to just pick up scented rushes and smell them for all their worth.
So with wholehearted approval, I support Alice's trips to wonderland, and for Lewis Carroll who gave us the exclusive trip to go along with her.
And like me, take great pleasure in laughing at our pretenses and take once more the mantle of a child's innocence and wonder along the way!

This has always been one of my favorite stories. Being able to listen to it just makes me love it all the more, and allows me to approach it in a whole new way.

I might have just had high expectations because of how much I love this story, but I think he could have done a better job with the emotion of the characters. He has great voices (and there are a lot of those), but each character seems to be shown only by their voice, and doesn't have much personality beyond that. It makes it feel a little gimmicky. All said and done, though, this is not a big deal. The book was a joy to listen to.

I love this book. I loved it as a child. Wild and yet it all makes a strange kind of sense. A sensible girl in a crazy world.

I love Alice.

Anything might happen and probably does.

I've read this story many times and seen movies as well. This book is a great listen, well performed. Classic Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I will keep it handy to listen again and again.