Post by laserx on Mar 2, 2011 2:17:37 GMT -5
I felt like writing a review so...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/ Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
8.72/10
These stories are so bat-shit insane that defy any semblance of character development or any significant overarching plot. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland she falls down a rabbit hole and a series of random-ass events unfold in an almost Tim and Eric level of frenzy (none last longer than a dozen or so pages). In Through the Looking-Glass Alice goes... through the looking-glass and wants to become a queen on a giant chess board for some reason.
I guess these are supposed to be books for kids but what the hell. This is what psychopaths must read as children. Alice has countless hallucinations including one where she kidnaps a baby and it transforms into a pig and takes it all in stride. But hey, it must be a kids book because it has pictures. Some are what you'd expect from the Disney movie, animals walking around in cloths and such but then the other half are what nightmares are made of. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, for example, have facial expressions like Bill Cosby in a fit of cocaine-induced rage.
At the end of the day, these stories were fucking fantastic. Its age is masked behind the sheer amount of nonsense and twisted logic that I haven't seen in so well-presented a form until very recently in entertainment. I found Adventures in Wonderland to be superior to Through the Looking-Glass. Looking-Glass often seemed to be trying to recapture the magic of its predecessor rather than trying to stand as its own work. Come on Lewis Carroll, quit trying to masturbate to your own style and try making something that can really stand on its own. Whatever, at the end of the day, this can still hold its own in a sea of half-assed derivatives and would-bes.
-TP, March 2nd, 2011
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/ Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
8.72/10
These stories are so bat-shit insane that defy any semblance of character development or any significant overarching plot. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland she falls down a rabbit hole and a series of random-ass events unfold in an almost Tim and Eric level of frenzy (none last longer than a dozen or so pages). In Through the Looking-Glass Alice goes... through the looking-glass and wants to become a queen on a giant chess board for some reason.
I guess these are supposed to be books for kids but what the hell. This is what psychopaths must read as children. Alice has countless hallucinations including one where she kidnaps a baby and it transforms into a pig and takes it all in stride. But hey, it must be a kids book because it has pictures. Some are what you'd expect from the Disney movie, animals walking around in cloths and such but then the other half are what nightmares are made of. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, for example, have facial expressions like Bill Cosby in a fit of cocaine-induced rage.
At the end of the day, these stories were fucking fantastic. Its age is masked behind the sheer amount of nonsense and twisted logic that I haven't seen in so well-presented a form until very recently in entertainment. I found Adventures in Wonderland to be superior to Through the Looking-Glass. Looking-Glass often seemed to be trying to recapture the magic of its predecessor rather than trying to stand as its own work. Come on Lewis Carroll, quit trying to masturbate to your own style and try making something that can really stand on its own. Whatever, at the end of the day, this can still hold its own in a sea of half-assed derivatives and would-bes.
-TP, March 2nd, 2011
