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Have you been able to discover any perverse innuendos whilst reading it?

Have you been able to discover any perverse innuendos whilst reading it?

Okay, goodreads apparently decided that the question was worth reiterating.

I haven't! Should I be? Right now I'm at the part in the second book where Alice has met the red queen. There was kind of a weird maybe racist part when Alice is talking to the flowers and one of them says Alice is "the right colour". But I haven't read anything that made me cry "AHA! Only a pedo would think up something like that!". You've read it, right? Am I just being hopelessly naive?

No! I thought exactly the same thing!! I read it thinking that it would be full of these blatant euphemisms, but try as I might to read into anything I couldn't. I have no idea what all those people were on about. I'm glad you haven't come across any either because I thought I too may be hopelessly clueless.

Hahaaaa! Yeah, I'm glad I haven't found anything suss. It's been such a funny book. I laughed up a lung during the mad hatter's bit in the trial. And it made me realise how spot on that TV movie version of it was, the one with miranda richardson as the red queen. I wonder if that's on youtube ...

it is!

I'd completely forgotten that version! I love Miranda Richardson. I also love both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Kids should read them more.

However, the White Rabbit in that version freaked the shiz out of me.

The mock turtle in it always weirded me out. Ugh, I just looked up the clip where you're first introduced to him. The way he slides from his shell and then just weirdly sobs. So unpleasant. Also the enunciated way Alice spoke in it always shitted me. But apart from that I remember it being pretty good :P