The Looking Glass Wars - Book 1

Just finished Looking Glass Wars and it was okay. Very much like a Harry Potter Book 1 set up where novice wielder of power must confront violent past, mature, then kick some ass. Of course, the bad buy will return in the next installment but that was expected.

The interesting part was the crafting together of different characters based on Lewis Carroll’s work. The Chesire Cat assassin and the Mad Hatter styled as Hatter Madigan, millinery officer with a switchblade hat. Dude like knives a lot. I think he could have spin off books where he travels around like a samurai or ronin. Yeah. His nemesis should be some goth kid from Germany who likes to cut himself, then he could be like “yeah, cut me I like it. No, seriously cut me I really really like blades.”

Alice is spelled Alyss and she is a “warrior Queen.” Which means what? She’s better than Xena, warrior princess? In the book, she leaves Wonderland and starts a life in London, but is forced back to Wonderland to become the warrior queen. So they hook is which life will she pick – London or Wonderland. But this book doesn’t really speak much to that issue, I think the author likely wanted to build it up but maybe chopped it for the sequel. Maybe. It was pretty good.

Drove three hours to meet my grandfather at Cracker Barrel. He asked me if "we" are morally bankrupt. I bit my hand and sucked at the blood as I cooed about my plans to start my own Dracula cult. Not really. I don't think people are worse off, but everything is covered through the media.

I'm reading a book called "Looking Glass Wars" and it takes a violent journey through Wonderland where the Chesire Cat is a fearsome feline that morphs into a thickly muscled killer. But the Caterpillars speak like stoners and the drug connection is heavy. What is our preocupation with feeling "away from ourselves." Why do we use so many stimulants to change our mood from normal. In the book, the caterpillars are prophets. I never thought of Cheech and Chong as prophetic.