Book 53: "Automated Alice" by Jeff Noon
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 19:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeAfter following her aunt's pet parrot into a grandfather clock, Alice and her doll Celia find themselves in 1998, but not 1998 as it really was. With Celia transformed into the Automated Alice, she and Alice they try to find the twelve missing jigsaw pieces and make it back to 1860 in time for Alice's writing lesson.
This book was a bit of a disappointment. Although the author had caught the Lewis Carroll tone, the wimsey was a bit laboured at times, and the puns over-explained.
It was great that there were so many pictures and that Alice had the traditional 'head too big for her body' look, but the animaI pictures were less successful. The pathologist looked more like a weimeraner than a bloodhound, while Captain Ramshackle looked absolutely nothing like a badger.
This book was a bit of a disappointment. Although the author had caught the Lewis Carroll tone, the wimsey was a bit laboured at times, and the puns over-explained.
It was great that there were so many pictures and that Alice had the traditional 'head too big for her body' look, but the animaI pictures were less successful. The pathologist looked more like a weimeraner than a bloodhound, while Captain Ramshackle looked absolutely nothing like a badger.
