Alice's Adventures Underground-42 to go

Yes I am aware that the commonly known title is "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." But The original story is titled "Alice's Adventures Underground" and that is what I read

I found the book rather confusing, reading it was like stepping into the mind of a madman and trying to see everything from a sane point of view. Practically impossible to do and rather infuriating.

Supposedly the story was created as a fairy tale made up on the spot for the author's niece or some other young relative over the course of several trips to a lake. Which largely explains the sporratic and confusing nature of the story. Reading the stories in their original form when they were made up spontanously on several occasions makes them inherriently confusing, since they wouldn't have been created with any sort of real plot in mind. To make things worse the character Alice was far from helpful, and was quite ridiculous, and seemingly insane. Her talking to herself and sporratic trains of thought matched the rest of the book in their ability to confuse and hinder comprehension

I was also thrown by the difference between the original story and the story most people have seen. I couldn't find any mention of the Cheshire Cat, or the Mad Hatter, or many of the other characters associated with "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland."

There was one moral I was able to extract from the insanity. In her interactions with various creatures Alice says things that, to her, are perfectly innocent, but are actually rather insulting or disturbing to the creature she is speaking to (talking about her cat to a rat for instance).

The same thing can happen with people in real life, if you don't think carefuly about what you are saying you could inadvertantly insult someone without even realizing it. Not the most earth-shattering moral I've encountered so far, but considering how confounding the story was I'm proud of my being able to extract any sane moral from it.

Perhaps reading the story that was originally published and made famous would be in order, since the original stories were only released after "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" had been out for some time. If the more popular version became so famous I would assume it makes a little more sense, and perhaps I would then be able to enjoy the story a little more. However, as of right now I walk away from this book with my head spinning.