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Through the Looking Glass

By Lewis Carroll

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780140624083

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The magical sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland continues Alice's escapades as she enters a new realm of fantasy.
Alice goes through the looking glass into another world whose eccentric inhabitants seem to be either chess-pieces or characters from nursery rhymes - that is, when th Continue

The magical sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland continues Alice's escapades as she enters a new realm of fantasy.
Alice goes through the looking glass into another world whose eccentric inhabitants seem to be either chess-pieces or characters from nursery rhymes - that is, when they are not talking flowers or insects. Obeying their own impossible rules of logic, they are all full of criticism or good advice as Alice, a lowly Pawn, sets out on her quest to become a Queen of the Chess Board.
On her journey she meets Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the White Knight as well as her own dinner. She learns to keep running fast enough to stay in the same place, why there is never jam today and about the importance of believing six impossible things after breakfast. It is not surprising that Alice is confused as to who is dreaming it all...

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    I knew it.

    When I read Tim Burton was making a movie out of "Alice in Wonderland", I knew he would mix "Through the looking glass" in it.

    As I already wrote in the occasion of re-reading the first book about Alice, I knew this would upset me.

    A surrealistic book is not a book that is NOT real. ... (continue)

    I knew it.

    When I read Tim Burton was making a movie out of "Alice in Wonderland", I knew he would mix "Through the looking glass" in it.

    As I already wrote in the occasion of re-reading the first book about Alice, I knew this would upset me.

    A surrealistic book is not a book that is NOT real. It is a book of its own. It's got its own plot. It's got its own characters. It's got its own why's, its own causes.

    Each of Alice's books has its own story, its own magic, and its own destiny. So why, why, WHY in the world do moviemakers deem that Queens are interchangeable? That animals of the underworld can also be found behind a looking glass? Well, those animals were not only animals. They were also words. Words are written in certain pages by writers, not by moviemakers.

    Well, these considerations have nothing to do with the book I'm reviewing. Or perhaps they do: they are the occasion to remember that "nonsense" books may be books that have the most meaning of all. They are the books where one plays with words. Where you discover the magic in a sentence. A thought that apparently makes no sense cannot be mingled with another: it is NOT a random thought.

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    RickyMos said on Mar 29, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback


  • "Life, what is it but a dream?"
    a crazy weird book....wonderful, good for everybody but you really might look through the looking glass to understand it

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    Pierfra said on Aug 23, 2009 | Add your feedback

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