saintoflight

I'm interested in hearing readings on 'Alice in Wonderland'?

There is the psycho-analytical and theories on drugs and dozen of comments of the text being absolute nonsense.

What do you make of 'Alice in Wonderland'?

weak sauce

I haven't read it yet. To be honest I've always thought it was some stupid children story, and never understood why everyone thought it was so cool. A bunch of people from my high school would wear a bunch of Alice in Wonderland paraphernalia to promote its coolness because it was trippy. I've never seen the whole movie, so I guess I should stop judging it.

What do you think? Is it worth a read or is it complete non sense? I really like drugged out inspired books, I'm a huge fan of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest. Drugs can bring out some interesting writing sometimes.

saintoflight

I think it really is the reader's interpretation that of the drug reading and that it is much more about Carrol and his life and desires. There is the mushroom, and the hooka mentioned in the text but I really don't think it has anything to do with it. It really depends on what level you want to read the novel. In some ways it is just a story that teaches kids to have fun with words but it also satirised the Victorian way of life, the judicial system, and social rules on etiquette etc

Damien.

I've read it a lot when I was a kid, and other than the hookah, I never got any drug references. I love the poem the Jabberwocky.

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Olly Buckle

My daughter found it and asked me to read it to her when she was about seven. I started, fully expecting her to be bored silly by about page seven and then we read through the looking glass afterwards. The drugs references are drugs references, there is the bit about rowing the boat through the sweet rushes and ending up in the shop with the sheep knitting in through the looking glass. The root of sweet rush is a psychedelic. It is most weird and I did not understand the fascination it had for my little girl, but it was absolutely real, not based on expectations or anything.

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