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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll There's a very good reason this is a classic. I don't remember having actually ever read this, though. Oh sure, I had seen the Disney movie, and more recently, the Tim Burton movie, but read the actual book? Don't remember.I loved it, and I'm glad I decided to read it in preparation for [b:Splintered|12558285|Splintered|A.G. Howard|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1340134213s/12558285.jpg|17562095]. (A reimagining, which I highly enjoyed...)One thing that was interesting to me was that some of the poems that Alice recites (and gets wrong...) are now only really known in their "wrong" Alice version! The originals, which would have been well-known at the time of the writing, are barely remembered these days. I can only imagine how much funnier this book was to it's original audience, who would have recognized them as parodies.It occurs to me now, that I need to go on a further Alice binge and re-watch the movies! And I should probably add [b:Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There|83346|Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (Alice #2)|Lewis Carroll|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1171040565s/83346.jpg|17240250] to my to-read pile...