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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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isabellarobinson7's review against another edition

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was probably my first DNF ever. (Well... there was maybe one before that, but we don’t talk about that book.) I first got it as an e-book on my shoddy e-reader called a "NextBook", a device I cannot even find a description of now online, because it was that bad and probably didn’t even go past its first run. I hadn’t even paid the subscription, so I was relying solely on free books to read. Regardless, I would take this e-reader to school and read during silent reading time, but this was a time when "silent" reading was anything but for me (let’s just say this was before something significant was discovered about my life). Silent reading was more about being distracted than the actual reading. So anyway, I had Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on this terrible e-reader during the silent meant-to-be-reading time and understandably I did not get very far. The problem was that when I got home (where I actually could read) I would just read my physical book, so I never got very far with Lewis Carroll's famous book.

Fast forward to November of 2022, where my mum bought me this tiny little bind-up of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as well as its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (the edition this review is listed under) called The Little Folks Edition (my brother thought this was just perfect as I am... let’s just say I'm under average height). This was the first time since that initial DNF back in school that I properly attempted Alice's Adventures in Wonderland again, be that as an abridged version, but I digress.

As for an actual review of this book... I don't know if I have one to give you. Keep in mind that I started this book exactly 100 days ago (I actually counted) so any "instant" or "raw" reactions I had to the story are long gone by now. Well, for one, reading the source material helped me keep the Red Queen and Queen of Hearts more or less separate in my mind (I frequently get them mixed up), so I guess that's something.

laceydbell's review against another edition

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1.0

I know this is meant to be non-sensical but it's just not for me. I can't think of any character I liked. I'm sad I didn't enjoy this. But now, a lot of references from Heartless by Marissa Meyer are making more sense!

motivoslobos's review against another edition

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3.0

¿Qué acabo de leer? jajajaja

Una historia bastante disparatada, no niego que tenga grandes significados y que el autor utiliza diferentes medios para atraer al lector, las ilustraciones ayudan mucho y se vuelve algo refrescante.

En momentos si que me divertí de las locuras que estaban pasando pero no creo toda la obra llegara a ser de mi agrado, al menos esta vez.

Alicia me pareció un poco alejada, necia, hasta de mal humor jajaj pensaba que sería algo diferente y por ello me quedo con el personaje de la Reina de corazones que sí deseo saber más con algún retelling. Cof, cof, Heartless...