Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hooter: A young girl in the Victorian era entering a fantasy land wilder than her imagination
I took a moment to write that hooter! Alice in Wonderland is so ingrained in popular culture that she needs no introduction nor the suspense ending that the book has. The irony with classics is most of us read them in our childhood often missing the finer nuances of why these are masterpieces. Going through it again, I realised the amount of wit Lewis Carroll had doused this book in and could appreciate it a lot more. That said, there was more nostalgia involved than any contemporary appreciation as the book has aged and maybe still makes for wonderful children's reading pushing the boundaries of imagination and to think Lewis made this all up on a boat trip for a friend's daughter.
The Cheshire cat, the mad hatter and alll the wonderful characters are well dramatised in this audiobook rendition making it a lot more interesting to hear the same.
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