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I would recommend reading Alice and Through the looking glass because they are sooo much better than any of the films...so much is missed out and lost when not seen written down...the others are not so different from their films...
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I did waste an entire weekend on Moby Dick for a high
school course, and I will never forgive myself for it.
Too many pages on blubber, spears, etc. no story line
for virtual chapter after chapter. What a waste. Wish
I'd got Cliff's notes for it.
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I would recommend reading Alice and Through the looking glass because they are sooo much better than any of the films...so much is missed out and lost when not seen written down...the others are not so different from their films... Posted mine while your's appeared. Maybe some day. I just keep seeing Disney's cute little girl in blue dress and a stupid cat, and rabbit. Yuck.
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Yes Disney did rather ruin the story...the difference is somewhat akin to own brand chocolate and Cadburys Dairy Milk chocolate or "not actually sugar" sugar and real sugar...
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Sounds delicious. (I absolutely hated Alice in the
Disney form, but someone took me to the theatre/theater
and I had to stay until the end. But I was just a boy
and maybe it was the girl-hero/heroine thing, and I was
not ready for it, or maybe because I loved animals and
(except cats) could not take the silly anthromorphizing
of them.
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The book is totally crazy, but in a good way...slightly creepy but very well devised. I am always surprised that so few people actually read it, either because they don't like the film or because they like the film and can't be bothered to read the books...I recently saw an excellent production of both Wonderland and Looking Glass that did absolute justice to the fantastical language, poetry and characters...Disney totally got hold of the wrong end of the stick when they "adapted" it (bowdlerised more like!) the chapters add to a sense of 'lost in a strange place' that Alice feels...Wonderland comes across as dangerous place indeed at times...
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What is the difference between the two? Alice/Looking Glass?
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Ahah! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the first book which ends on a bit of a cliffhanger and Alice Through the Looking Glass is the sequel, they are often put together as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass often the films steal bits from both books and combine them which is terrible for you if you have read the book - characters pop up who shouldn't even be found yet! (the Tweedle brothers are a good example)
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apropos of nothing much: I recently received a Kindle and was pleased to discover that classics that are in the public domain can be downloaded gratis - so far I've read Bram Stoker's Count Dracula (for the first time), am rereading Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, and Alice is up next.
I will *not be reading The Whale, no matter the cost. (I've tried twice; I was much older the second time and quit on it much sooner - I think I've matured in my reading habits.) read Philbreck's In the Heart of the Sea if you want to read something about whaling that's very well-written - it's about the actual loss of the Essex.
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Ahah! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the first book which ends on a bit of a cliffhanger and Alice Through the Looking Glass is the sequel, they are often put together as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass often the films steal bits from both books and combine them which is terrible for you if you have read the book - characters pop up who shouldn't even be found yet! (the Tweedle brothers are a good example) That shows my complete disinterest in Alice, I thought they were the same thing like Hobbit and TABA. Thanks for the update in my education.
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