Cover Charge #13: Alice In Wonderland
Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Pagemaster It's really appropriate that this is the thirteenth issue of Cover Charge , because both times I read Alice In Wonderland (a.k.a. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland , or Alice's Adventures Under Ground , as it was called in its original manuscript form), I felt as if I had been cursed to die of annoyance and boredom with my brain pouring out of my ears. Whether because it simply melted from prolonged exposure to such pointless idiocy, or it fled in terror, piece by piece, from Lewis Carroll 's most famous work occupying my short-term memory, I cannot begin to guess. My issues with the book begin with Alice herself. I suppose it's to be expected of children of a certain age, but Alice is Dunning-Kruger personified. She's lazy, impatient, inconsiderate, self-important, violent toward animals, and so stupid that she thinks her own stupidity is the result of her being changed with someone stupider than herself (which ...