I did love reading, and might surely be called as what Qian Jibo's word of his grand-daughter, 'the seed of reading'. Well, you see, I use the past tense.
It took me for more than 5 or six years to even finally opening - by opening I means 'clicking' - Alice's Adventure in Wonderland. I knew it was a famous book for American and British kids, esp. girls. And I thought that it would be definitely fun.
Well, it should have been if I read earlier.
Now, I finally had it read through and only find it boring. A small girl, sunburned languid, had nothing to do and to think except to sleep. And asleep she did fall. Then things happened in a way just as later her sister explained. It was a wildly dream, and it shall be funny for small girls. But not for me, after so many years of grown-up. I even don't understand why it is so popular.
I just saw some funny things with the language, for example, when the Mock Turtle said something like a 'porpoise', Alice asked whether he was speaking of 'purpose'. And actually, it was NOT a pun. Every now and then, the author writes in such a way that a small girl vividly appears before our eyes. That might bring him a great success.
Farewell, my childhood.