A mad, mad book about a mad mad world!
All I've to say is Carroll's imagination is so vivid and much mind-boggling for readers. The Wonderland is full of bizarre beings and chaos: the creatures argue a lot among themselves and there's much of conflict between classes in their societal structure, yet somehow they're in harmony with each other and with nature; Alice in this Wonderland hustles a lot to find reasons, a meaning to all these strange behavioral attributes of people there but she doesn't find any sense, she's even frustrated with herself with her dynamic change in size: the insignificance of childhood and the perils of growing up.
I've listened to the audiobook narrated by Scarlett Johansson and she is amazing especially in pulling out weird accents. I'm not much into fantasy or children's book like these and I felt much strange reading a book like this where it's so difficult to comprehend of why that particular act took place but once you start understanding them it's really fun, I mean the events are not that meaningless: they've connections with our real life and meaning in our world and the microcosm is encrypted in this book though awkwardly.
Lewis Carroll's writing is just brilliant and as he was a mathematician, he has embedded all the universal uncertainty in a very English way: for instance, the Mock Turtle has to learn Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision in their arithmetic class, lol! and for me, the conversation with Gryphon and Mock Turtle was the best part. There's a lot of beautiful but non-sensical poetry in this book. I like this book because it's so absurdly unique and was quite an adventure reading it.