one down ... ten to go

i finished reading the first of the eleven books that i bought the other day ...

the book being alice's adventures in wonderland ... i think everyone here has at least heard of that book seeing as how it is a classic ... perhaps even familiar with most of the characters thanks to the disney movie ...

i had barely started the book ... but thanks to the five hour bus ride to dammam i took today i was able to easily finish it ... it's not a very long book so that wasn't really an accomplishment ...

anyway ... there's really no story to the book ... at least none that i could tell ... it's exactly what the title says it is ... alice's adventures in wonderland ... which are just a series of seemingly unconnected events ... basically alice is a little girl who falls down a rabbit-hole at the beginning of the book ... and that is where the adventures start ... from that point on in the story ... alice is constantly shrinking and growing in size whenever she eats or drinks something ... meeting all kinds of nutty characters along the way and having - or at least trying to have - conversations with them ... i think my favorite was the hookah-smoking caterpillar ... but this wonderland as it turns out in the end is all a dream ... which i thought was kind of anti-climactic ...

still despite the somewhat lame ending ... it's a very clever and funny book ... although i'm pretty sure the author must have been on something when he wrote it ... he had to be ...

if you have already read alice in wonderland and like this type of nonsensical slash witty humor ... you should read this book ...