Alice In Wonderland

[hamerfan]

Okay, I hate to admit this, but I've never read this book.
So I wanted a good Kindle copy. There are free ones for Kindle, but they all seemed to be missing something. I splurged and spent $1.99 for this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Wonderland-Imprints-Editions-ebook/dp/B004G5Z67W/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1327777190&sr=1-3

edited by Kent David Kelly. He seems to be a fan of both Alice and Kindle, so for me it was an easy choice. Glad I got it!

[tamaraheiner]

Are you enjoying the read? I'm not much of a fan of the classics...

[hamerfan]

So far, so good. 10% of the way through it and not a single typo! Very nice illustrations, but a really good story well told.
I understand the classics remark. I've been trying to get through David Copperfield, but it isn't an easy read for me with the grammar and patterns of speech used back then.
Alice rules! 

[Beth Dolgner]

I read the Alice books for the first time about a year ago. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed them!

[R. M. Reed]

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves,
and the mome wraths outgrabe.

I've had that first verse of Jabberwocky memorized for many years. Reading Alice started my love of nonsense.

[Wingpeople]

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves,
and the mome wraths outgrabe.

I've had that first verse of Jabberwocky memorized for many years. Reading Alice started my love of nonsense.

Ditto! Alice in Wonderland was my favorite as a kid -- my mother would read it to me, and even read a chapter or two to me after I grew old enough to read it by myself.

However, as a child, I interpreted things very literally. I remember insisting that she read Alice to me once again so that I could listen very carefully to the times the phrase "her eye fell upon..." occurred. When it happened for the 3rd time, I pounced on the obvious error, since Alice was already blind after she had lost her 2 eyes, and surely had no eye remaining to fall upon a small key or a box or anything else...
 

[LaurenLuce]

That's cool. The free public domains on Kindle are certainly workable, but I think it's better if you can afford a copy that was edited and really put together.

[Rook]

This and Through the Looking Glass are childrens' books, but there's a lot going on in those books that a child won't get. I never read them as a child, but enjoyed them greatly when reading them as an adult.

[sparklemotion]

That is the one I have too, it's perfect! I originally had the free version, but I bought this one and I'm so glad I did. Well worth it if you're a fan of the book, which I am.

[FeliciaM]

I still want to read this.

[hamerfan]

I still want to read this.

If you can, get the version I linked to at the top of this thread. It had diary excerpts and interviews from the people closest to this book, giving a great background on how it came to be.
Plus, it's a great, great book, well worth the price of admission.