If you go chasing rabbits, you know you're going to fall...

I tried.  Really I did.  Please believe me when I tell you that.

The last time at Borders, I found a copy of Alice's Adventures In WOnderland & Through The Looking Glass.  All in one book, only 200 pages, and for only 3.95, before all the discounts.  I've tried to read some classics in the last few years: Liked The Great Gatsby, Loved Animal Farm, tolerated War Of The Worlds, couldn't get through, but at least tried 1984.  And so I thought, let's go with Alice!  I mean, I've seen the Disney movie (really, though, who hasn't?) and I've read several Batman comics with the Mad Hatter and his crimes.  And I even sat through that atrocious Johnny Depp Wonderland thing a few years ago.  So let's give the original a whirl, thought I.

Mistake. It was boring.  Bored me to distraction.  Nothing happened!  Well, yeah a lot of stuff happened, but it made no sense at all.  Alice is just wandering around, or being led around by all these other characters, not even knowing for sure who she is, drinking out of whatever bottles she sees, eating any old cake she finds laying about, and eating mushrooms!    I only got through the Wonderland part, I just couldn't finished the last half of the book (the Looking Glass). 

Oh I read in the commentary about how it made all kinds of subtle, yet slashing, comments on English culture.  Well, something doesn't translate well, whether it's the cross-culture, or the fact it was writtne 150 years ago, I didnt detect any cultural/politcal undercurrents, except that the royalty seemed dull-headed...which really, if no one knew even back then, well then there's no helping them.

And truthfully, the whole time while reading, I was thinking about the 4th Harry Potter book.  I'm trying not to read them all one after the other, cause I'll likely grow tired of the series and stop reading it, I've done that before.  So I'm trying to read a book in between each Harry Potter book.  But I just could not do Alice any longer.  So, I'll not finish that book, but I've already started the Goblet Of Fire.  It's like three times as long as Alice, but I'm sure I'll have it done in no time.  The Potter books have this way of reeling me in.

SO anyway, I gave the old college try, but Alice's Adventures Through The Looking Glass shall have to wait for another time in the future, if I ever feel like taking them up again.

POLT