Here’s the problem with having seen the movie based on the
book before reading the book: if the movie sucks, you’re pre-judging the book.
But then sometimes you go back and read the book, and you
wonder how in the heck the people making the movie took such interesting source
material and then adulterated it so that it was almost unrecognizable. That
happens here. There are two distinct stories, and as far as I recall, the movie
didn’t use them at all. What’s up with that?
There is one thing that took me out of enjoyment though.
There is this long Almanac of magical places, descriptive of places like where
Alice Liddell fell down the rabbit hold. It is clever, but it is way too long
and dry. I tried to read it, stopped, and then tried again. I finally decided
that the payoff was not worth the effort and it was outside the main narrative so
I’m not missing much having only read two thirds of it.
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