Everyone's favourite stoner Disney movie (why doesn't Google Chrome recognise this word?) now has a review on this blog.
For a story that began as an improvisation told to three children on a river trip, Alice in Wonderland is a very good book filled with sheesha-smoking caterpillars, permanently-smiling cats and mock/false turtles. Not forgetting a King and Queen of hearts and pelicans used for croquet mallets.
The story, of course, begins with Alice spotting a white rabbit in a waistcoat which runs down a rabbit hole and she just HAS to follow this curious rabbit, doesn't she?
What follows is a story of a girl who goes from standard size to mega-small to long-necked who explores this Wonderland of the aforementioned animals. She gets to hear stories of turtles who danced with lobsters, meet children who transform into pigs and a Cheshire cat which has the ability to appear and disappear upon its will.
As the story goes on, things just seem to get weirder until the climax in which Alice finds herself at a trial against an unnamed character which has written some strange verse when the full pack of cards rises into the air and falls onto her.
This was a book I'd wanted to read for some time, and when I found the free e-book of it, I felt obliged to download it.
Although this was originally told/written for children, I reckon adults would also take pleasure in reading such a story (Wikipedia does say that adults enjoy it also). It's like some sort of legal acid trip put into words (let's face it, when have you EVER seen a caterpillar sitting on a mushroom, puffing away on a hookah when sober?)
Certainly worth the 9kb and short amount of time it took to download, AIW is one for everyone. It also read very well on the e-reader. Download was legal as Carroll is now dead and copyright has since disappeared.
Total rating: 4 out of 5
Downloaded at: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/ where you can thousands of ebooks available to print, PDF and epub formats.
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