I'd like to push Alice through the bloody looking glass...

Alice in Wonderland comes out today and I'm torn.
On the one hand, I like most of Tim Burton's movies. But on the other hand, I absolutely loathe the Alice books.
I cannot stand them.
I remember reading the first one and getting an enormous headache, because, honestly? What was the fucking point of the story?
A while back, I read an article that explained the reasons the Alice stories were so popular can be largely attributed to the time when they were first published. It was the Victorian Era and the lives of children were regulated to extremes. The whimsical, free flowing nonsense of the Alice books appealed to children because it was apparently liberating.
I've talked about this with some other folks and Alice tends to polarize a crowd; people either love the books or hate them.
I'm afraid I fall firmly in the first camp.
It doesn't help that the movie is getting lukewarm reviews.
What to do? What to do?
Still alive and pondering tonight's adventure. - G.