Positives. This book deserves to be a classic. It is brilliantly written. Nothing that happens makes any sense but that is quite alright; in a world where nothing makes sense, everything does. This story is probably an English major's dream: it has songs, rhymes and reason, drawing on traditional literary forms and playing with language any chance it gets. Alice is a very funny main character who runs on her own logic which made this a pleasant read. 

Negatives. Because the songs and language are rather old-timey, a lot of the jokes and wordplay flew right over my head. That is a shame because a lot of the strange situations Alice finds herself in are rooted in wordplay and linguistic confusion. I would recommend investing in a copy with explanations in the footnotes so you can fully appreciate the world Carroll has built. 

Quote. "'But it's no use now,' thought poor Alice, 'to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!'"