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Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Published by Tantor Media, Inc
Narrated by C. S. E. Cooney and Eric Michael Summerer
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
From master anthologist Ellen Datlow comes an all-original of weird tales inspired by the strangeness of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
Between the hallucinogenic, weird, imaginative wordplay and the brilliant mathematical puzzles and social satire, Alice has been read, enjoyed, and savored by every generation since its publication. Datlow asked eighteen of the most brilliant and acclaimed writers working today to dream up stories inspired by all the strange events and surreal characters found in Wonderland.
Mad Hatters and March Hares features stories and poems from Seanan McGuire, Jane Yolen, Catherynne M. Valente, Delia Sherman, Genevieve Valentine, Priya Sharma, Stephen Graham Jones, Richard Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, Angela Slatter, Andy Duncan, C. S. E. Cooney, Matthew Kressel, Kris Dikeman, Jane Yolen, Kaaron Warren, Ysbeau Wilce, and Katherine Vaz.
Between the hallucinogenic, weird, imaginative wordplay and the brilliant mathematical puzzles and social satire, Alice has been read, enjoyed, and savored by every generation since its publication. Datlow asked eighteen of the most brilliant and acclaimed writers working today to dream up stories inspired by all the strange events and surreal characters found in Wonderland.
Mad Hatters and March Hares features stories and poems from Seanan McGuire, Jane Yolen, Catherynne M. Valente, Delia Sherman, Genevieve Valentine, Priya Sharma, Stephen Graham Jones, Richard Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, Angela Slatter, Andy Duncan, C. S. E. Cooney, Matthew Kressel, Kris Dikeman, Jane Yolen, Kaaron Warren, Ysbeau Wilce, and Katherine Vaz.
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Reviews for Mad Hatters and March Hares
Rating: 3.603448275862069 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I listened to some of the short stories that were narrated by the gentleman. I might try to find it in print, but I doubt it. The stories that I listened to had very little in them to claim any relation to the masterpiece written by “Lewis Carroll” other than a name or two, maybe a reference to a hall, or rabbit hole.
I did mostly enjoy one of the first few tales, about an orangutan that could speak and found a semi-authentic version of Wonderland, but in the end was still disappointed that his kind, animal heart, seemed to have been tainted by the greed and revenge of his human captor/savior.
My advice, leave expectations at home, and give it a try, you may like it more than I did. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A wonderful, varied and multifaceted collection sure to have something for everyone.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reviewing an anthology, to paraphrase Forrest Gump, is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going get. But least with a leading anthologist like Ellen Datlow, the chocolates are guaranteed to be top quality. Lewis Carroll's Wonderland is already an odd place, and Datlow has added another dimension by inviting writes to put their own spin on a land that thinks stuffing narcoleptic dormice into teapots is a normal occurrence. A number of the stories reinvent Wonderland itself, such as a modern city or a past-prime amusement park, but the tales that add new spins on old familiar characters are where the collection shines. Of particular note is “Conjoined” by Jane Yolen, which reimagines Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum as formerly conjoined twins from a freak show of a traveling circus.Similar to the aforementioned box of chocolate, it is highly advised to avoid attempts to devour this anthology in one setting. It has too many variations and genres for one sitting. Stretch your consumption out - each story is stand alone and several would conflict each other is read holistically.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a collection of 18 short stories based on Alice in Wonderland. It was interesting to read as some were very loosely based, and others were a closer fit. Some were sad and some were scary, but all involved an Alice.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Won this in the early reviewers program.I usually enjoy stories that take place in an established world with established characters but kind of put interesting spins on those places. This is a collection of short stories with a couple of poems mixed in by different authors all based on Alice In Wonderland. Pretty enjoyable, kind of a mixed bag. some of these stories I really enjoyed others not so much. all were interesting. Some were too dark for my taste. The readers did a good job on some stories, while others they seemed to be just reading.A note on the format. This was the audio version on MP3 CDs. These are CDs that won't play anywhere except a computer, I find these annoying because I have to download them to my PC, then upload them to an MP3 player to listen to. Regular CDs would be so much more enjoyable and easy.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5We chose this book for our spring semester faculty book club, reading only a story or two per week. We had a fun time discussing the book. One professor was an "expert" on the Alice trilogy. Another was a great discussion leader who brought out probing questions to think about. Most of us agreed we enjoyed some stories more than others. Some stories follow the Alice books or draw more from them than others. We tended to like those stories more. We all felt the strongest stories were those at the beginning and end of the book and the mediocre ones were mostly in the middle. Poems served as "book ends." I especially enjoyed the poem shaped like a teapot. One of the more memorable stories depicts an elderly Alice and older Peter Pan in a discussion. It was a fun book for our book club.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I did not enjoy this. Only a few of the authors make even slight nods to the 19th century nonsense and intelligent, sly subversiveness of the originals. This reads like dark urban fantasy verging into horror. Sort of tales of wonder-why land.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A collection of short stories and poems from various authors all about Wonderland and their many quirky characters. Each story is very different. Some are light-hearted and fun, others are dark and adult. Some try to emulate Lewis Carrol's writing style (many successfully), and others have their own style. I very much enjoyed many of the stories and felt sucked back into that rabbit hole. If you are a fan of Alice in Wonderland, or one of it many representation, I would definitely check out this anthology. The narration for the audiobook is very well done, but I think it would be better read in the physical format. With the large amount of different stories and authors, it would be nice to be able to flip back and recall past stories with ease that an audiobook doesn't allow you.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I thought this was a fun tribute to Lewis Carroll and Alice and the gang. Staying true to the language and timing of the Wonderland world, each entry was unique and intricate. I received the audio of this and it would have been nice had there actually been a table of contents on the CD case for easy reference to story titles and authors. A shout out to the cover artwork -- beautiful and sinister, like the stories themselves. The narrators add to each story with their wonderful voices. While I love audios, I really think a physical book in my hands would have been more satisfying with this particular work. To see the words, to watch the flow of the stories tumble into place-- I would have enjoyed them more. There is just something about the language of Alice in Wonderful -- one needs to keep a close eye on the words lest they sprout legs and run off down a rabbit hole.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mad Hatters and March Hares is a collection of original short stories written by various authors inspired by Alice in Wonderland and the characters within. They range from fun and fantastical to dark and sinister. While they were all extremely well written, I feel I didn't appreciate them as much as someone who is a bigger fan of Wonderland would have. And although I only liked about seven of the stories, I will say I very much enjoyed Eric Michael Summerer's narrating! His talent of making each character voice so distinctive was impressive!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mad Hatters and March Hares is a collection of short stories (and two poems) inspired by Lewis Carroll and featuring work by a number of well-known writers. Although Alice's Wonderland adventures are the unifying theme, the writers here all take very different directions. C.S.E. Cooney's "Lily-White & the Thief of Lesser Night" and Jeffrey Ford's "All the King's Men" are set in Wonderland, no Alice to be seen; Richard Bowes's "Some Kind of Wonderland" and Katherine Vaz's "Moon, and Memory, and Muchness" are both grounded in reality, but with Wonderland-as-metaphor influence. Stephen Graham Jones's "Alis" is a horror tale where the looking glass looks back. Seanan McGuire inverts Alice's journey by stranding the Cheshire Cat on mundane Earth. Most of Wonderland's familiar denizens show up at some point--the White Rabbit, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Jabberwock, the Dormouse--but it isn't just limited to the fictional characters surrounding Alice's Adventures. Andy Duncan's "Worrity, Worrity" examines illustrator Sir John Tenniel and a Wasp scene cut from Carroll's original work. Catherynne Valente's "The Flame After the Candle" imagines a fictionalized version of the meeting between Alice Liddell Hargreaves (Carroll's muse) and Peter Llewelyn Davies (inspiration for Peter Pan).I got the audiobook version of this book through LT Early Reviewers. I'm not sure audio is the best format for a short fiction collection, and the poems were both wasted in audio. Several stories are long enough that I had to listen to them over two sittings, and wouldn't remember the author or title on resuming (The CDs had no enclosure, so I kept having to go to Amazon just to check the table of contents). The collection as a whole was about 12 hours of listening. That being said, C.S.E. Cooney and Eric Michael Summerer both do excellent jobs on the narration, with good pacing and distinct character voices (although I did find Summerer's "Cockney" accent on one story to be a little distracting). And out-loud reading served the horror elements and punny wordplay well in most spots.