Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Norton Critical Edition) Book

I was so excited to be reading the original! It was about time, especially after all those retellings like Insanity by Cameron Jace amongst many others. Reading this, I quickly realised that those retellings took the elements they wanted from the story and changed a few, leaving quite a lot of it out.

It was an easy book to read even though it was a classic. No complicated language in this one. It was humorous and I liked the twists on words and word play that there was quite a lot of in this one. I liked Alice's curiosity and the way she thought about things.

I was pretty confused throughout the majority of this though. It was so nonsensical! I am sure there is a lot of meanings you can read into this fuddle of a story, and maybe some that we choose to read into it that Carroll never meant to represent. But I, for one, couldn't understand which made this story seem like a lot of nonsense jumbled together. I hate confusing stories and that bothered me a lot.


The descriptions were short but essential to the story for understanding (or what little of there this is.) I did like how there were a few life lessons scattered along the story, which were nice to see.

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