Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #453768 in Books
• Published on: 2005
• Binding: Paperback
• 338 pages

Customer Reviews

Pointless, pretentious, and... other words starting with 'P'.
I'm a fan of just about anything to do with Lewis Carroll and Alice. My shelves are packed with various editions (including one precious first edition), other books about Lewis Carroll and Alice, and other fictional takes on the Alice stories.

So I was keen to add this to my collection.

I really wish I hadn't bothered. The cover illustration is the best thing about it.

Normally when you buy an anthology, you know you're getting a mixed bag. Some stories will be so-so, some will perhaps be just plain bad, but hopefully there'll be one or two gold nuggets that made it worth wading through the mud.

I couldn't find any gold nuggets in this book. The best stories in this book never get much better than so-so, and most are just plain awful.

It's actually stretching a point to even call some of them 'stories' - they're really just wordy, stream-of-consciousness rambles. Imagine a creative writing class: the instructor says, "Just write for a while, anything that comes into your head based on Alice in Wonderland." The class start scribbling, all trying much too hard to write something deep and significant, and instead produce pretentious claptrap... That will give you a general idea of what to expect from this volume.

One star, just for the cover illustration.