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Well, I've reached fifty books. It's not the book I quite expected to finish, but oh well. It only took me a few hours, so that's good. I even have enough time to do a review of it before I have to go to bed!
Book: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Genre: Um, fiction? Fantasy?
Length: 190 pp.
Grade: B
Amazon Summary: The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat—characters each more eccentric than the last, and that could only have come from Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense. In these two brilliant burlesques he created two of the most famous and fantastic novels of all time that not only stirred our imagination but revolutionized literature.
My Thoughts: Just ignore the "two brilliant burlesques"—I read this via Google's book search, so there was only the classic Alice in Wonderland, not Through the Looking Glass. However, considering I rather enjoyed this book despite its complete and utter inanity, I will probably be trying to either take that out of the library or read it online sometime.
This book was, for lack of a better way to phrase it, very eccentric. As I started reading it, the book started out fairly normal, but then as Carroll began telling it, it become increasingly strange and abnormal. Except I liked it. It kept me reading, kept me wondering what sort of nonsense Lewis Carroll could come up with next. Alice was... well, sort of relatable, in that childish curiosity and innocence we all seem to have inside us somewhere.
Thanks to How to Read Literature Like a Professor, though, I was able to look past all of the absolute nonsense and see the sort of thing Lewis Carroll seemed to be trying to portray (or at least what my mind twists his motive as being)—the growth of a child into a girl, a girl into a woman, and how the most inane things can bring about that sort of influence.
That's not to say that was his motive. I'm sure he probably wasn't thinking that much into it. However, I found it intriguing the symbolism I could find in this story just by quickly reading it, and I'm sure I could find more if I went through and read it again with my HTRLLAP notes beside me.
Right now, though, it is getting late, so I'll just cut this review (very) short by saying that the insanity made me laugh, some parts made me go "buwah," and some parts made me smile, just because I could see parts of Alice in myself. This was certainly worth reading despite (or perhaps because) of its insanity, and I want to read Through the Looking Glass now.
Currently Reading: Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell (which is absolutely amazing so far, and I should probably have it done by tomorrow)
Book: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Genre: Um, fiction? Fantasy?
Length: 190 pp.
Grade: B
Amazon Summary: The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat—characters each more eccentric than the last, and that could only have come from Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense. In these two brilliant burlesques he created two of the most famous and fantastic novels of all time that not only stirred our imagination but revolutionized literature.
My Thoughts: Just ignore the "two brilliant burlesques"—I read this via Google's book search, so there was only the classic Alice in Wonderland, not Through the Looking Glass. However, considering I rather enjoyed this book despite its complete and utter inanity, I will probably be trying to either take that out of the library or read it online sometime.
This book was, for lack of a better way to phrase it, very eccentric. As I started reading it, the book started out fairly normal, but then as Carroll began telling it, it become increasingly strange and abnormal. Except I liked it. It kept me reading, kept me wondering what sort of nonsense Lewis Carroll could come up with next. Alice was... well, sort of relatable, in that childish curiosity and innocence we all seem to have inside us somewhere.
Thanks to How to Read Literature Like a Professor, though, I was able to look past all of the absolute nonsense and see the sort of thing Lewis Carroll seemed to be trying to portray (or at least what my mind twists his motive as being)—the growth of a child into a girl, a girl into a woman, and how the most inane things can bring about that sort of influence.
That's not to say that was his motive. I'm sure he probably wasn't thinking that much into it. However, I found it intriguing the symbolism I could find in this story just by quickly reading it, and I'm sure I could find more if I went through and read it again with my HTRLLAP notes beside me.
Right now, though, it is getting late, so I'll just cut this review (very) short by saying that the insanity made me laugh, some parts made me go "buwah," and some parts made me smile, just because I could see parts of Alice in myself. This was certainly worth reading despite (or perhaps because) of its insanity, and I want to read Through the Looking Glass now.
Currently Reading: Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell (which is absolutely amazing so far, and I should probably have it done by tomorrow)
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Date: 2008-10-15 03:40 am (UTC)From::::cries:::
Unless I get a bunch of those crappy movie novelizations that you can fly through in an hour. But I am hard pressed to even call those books. Ack.