These two books were brought to you by the letters W, T, and F. Of all the ineffable twaddle I've ever read (and I try to keep that to a minimum), I believe this is the piece de resistance. It is proof positive that LSD was used just as irresponsibly in the 1860s as it was in the 1960s. The fact that it wasn't invented until 1938 is irrelevant, as anyone who is currently under the influence of that pharmaceutical extraction could easily explain. The time continuum thing confusing you? Just drop a bit, and you'll understand. In fact, I believe the enjoyment of this book would not only be increased by partaking of some hallucinogens, but that such activity is probably a prerequisite for gaining any sense of comprehension. At any rate, whether you read these stories stoned or clean, I'm pretty sure Carroll wrote them while he was at least half-baked, because people on pure air don't talk about stuff like this... 
 ...But I might be mistaken. I not only think about stuff like that all the time, but often discuss such silliness with a couple of friends of mine, and all of us have been 100% clean for years. Also, I'm pretty sure all of us had the mental ability to venture into such realms of madness before ever we first introduced any kind of wayward chemical into our bodies. Sorry, Lewis, I apologize for calling you a burnout. 
 My friends and I enjoy wordplay and puns, word-association games, and the like. Growing up in my family, one had to be prepared to battle his relatives over literal translations of statements because that's just the way we are. I remember some friends who couldn't hang with me on such matters often saying "God, Pierce, you're so literal!" I'm afraid I had no choice; I was tempered that way from birth. Wonderland and Looking Glass are nothing but puns and wordplay. That being the case, it seems like I should have enjoyed this immensely, but I'm afraid I didn't. 
 Here's an example of the fun Carroll has with words. Alice is talking to a bunch of flowers in the middle of a garden and asks them "'Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?' 
 'There's a tree in the middle,' said the Rose: 'What else is it good for?' 
 'But what could it do, if any danger came?' Alice asked. 
 'It could bark,' said the Rose. 
 'It says 'Bough-Wough!'' cried a Daisy, 'that's why its branches are called boughs!'" 
 Later Alice asks the flowers how they can talk so nicely as she's never met flowers who could talk before. 
 "'Put your hand down, and feel the ground,' said the Tiger-lily. 'Then you'll know why.' 
 Alice did so. 'It's very hard,' she said, 'but I don't see what that has to do with it.' 
 'In most gardens,' the Tiger-lily said, 'they make the beds too soft - so that the flowers are always asleep.'" 
 Well, you get the idea. For more nonsensical wordplay, just open the book to any, any, page, and you'll find plenty. 
 Maybe it was supersaturation that contributed to my lack of enjoyment? Since I play these games all the time, perhaps there is no novelty in this for me? I'm not totally sure. I think part of the problem, for me, was that the books read more like poems so far as content was concerned. I expect poetry to be full of flim-flam, but not prose. Also, the book was filled with several poems, and that didn't increase the enjoyment factor at all. I hate poems and songs in my books. I maintain that puns, wordplay, and linguistic silliness should be the salt of a novel, and not the meal. These books are salt-licks. 
 There is no point in trying to describe the plot of these books, because there really isn't one, nor is there any character development; just lots of fun insanity. If you're into that kind of thing, or poetry, then you'll probably love this. 
 I was tempted to give this one star because by the time I was 3/4 of the way through Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, I was ready for the book to be over, and I decided to get decisively engaged with Through the Looking-Glass as it was only 120 pages, and it was in the volume I had, and I really wanted the t-shirt. Now that I've plowed through it, I can be shut of Mr. Carroll. So why did I give it two stars? The wordplay. I appreciate such things, and several parts made me chuckle. I would like to give it 1.5 stars, but goodreads doesn't offer that.