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The Phantom Tollbooth de Norton Juster
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The Phantom Tollbooth (1961 original; edició 1988)

de Norton Juster

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A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.
Membre:Kiwiria
Títol:The Phantom Tollbooth
Autors:Norton Juster
Informació:Random House Books for Young Readers (1988), Edition: 35th, Paperback, 256 pages
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    Abarat de Clive Barker (Death_By_Papercut)
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Es mostren 1-5 de 421 (següent | mostra-les totes)
I read this book because I saw Dominic Noble do a "Lost in adaptation" episode comparing this book to the Chuck Jones cartoon and for some reason reacted to that with "Chuck Jones is one of my favourite animators, I Should read the book that inspired that cartoon of his that i have never seen or heard of until now"reaching

anyway, I found the book very clever and I appreciated the wordplay commitment ( )
  LadyLast | Mar 11, 2024 |
Life
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
So sad I didn't read this in school though I'm sure the assignments would have taken the magic away. Rainn Wilson reading the audiobook was just perfect. ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
For Milo, everything's a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing: Life is far from dull. In fact, it's exciting beyond his wildest dreams!
  PlumfieldCH | Dec 9, 2023 |
Milo mopes in black ink sketches, until he assembles a tollbooth and drives through. He jumps to the island of Conclusions. But brothers King Azaz of Dictionopolis and the Mathemagician of Digitopolis war over words and numbers. Joined by ticking watchdog Tock and adult-size Humbug, Milo rescues the Princesses of Rhyme and Reason, and learns to enjoy life.

Oh how I wished I had read this book when I was younger! (perhaps not young you understand, just younger). What have I been missing? I heard about this book several times on book related podcasts, such as NPR and it was only whilst I was doing a trawl through the local children's department for Christmas presents that I saw the 50th anniversary edition out on a table. Well, the child I was buying for never got it (he'll live), and it was slipped onto my TBR shelf.

The Wikipedia page is here. I also found several reviews of the book (I wont talk about the film as I currently dont intend to see it), one from the UK in the form of The Guardian newspaper and one from Michael Chabon, writing in the New York Review of Books.

Essentially Milo starts the book as a child who does no independent thinking, dreaming, learning, abandons his toys almost immediately after getting them, and generally wastes his childhood doing not much. He returns home one day to find a gift in his bedroom. After building what turns out to be a toy tollbooth, he drives his little car through and into another world, called Wisdom.

The world is made up of several different cities - Dictionopolis (the city of words) and Digitopolis (the city of numbers), and things have never been right since the Princess Rhyme and Princess Reason were banished to the City in the Air. Milo, with Tock the (watch)dog, and Humbug, are sent to rescue the two Princesses and so travel across the land.

Along the way, the three of them encounter various different characters including: Faintly Macbre, the Not-So-Wicked Which. who regulated all words used in public, but became so stingy with them that people became afraid to talk at all; Dr. Kakofonous A. Dischord, a scientist who enjoys creating unpleasant sounds, and curing pleasant sounds; The Soundkeeper, who loves silence, rules the Valley of Sound - her vaults keep all the sounds ever made in history; Alec Bings, a boy of Milo's age and weight who sees through things - he grows downwards from a fixed point in the air until he reaches the ground, unlike Milo, who grows upwards from the ground.

The book is written in such a way that it can take a while to realise you're being taught a little truth (e.g. that if jump to Conclusions, it's not a pretty place and it's tiring work to get away from it). He rescues the Princesses - who were after all, simply McGuffins - and returns home. He is sad to see that the Tollbooth has disappeared - only to realise that he no longer needs it as he has so many new worlds to explore without it!

  nordie | Oct 14, 2023 |
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Juster, Nortonautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Feiffer, JulesIl·lustradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Dietz, NormanNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Grant, MelAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Jones, Diana WynneIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Pierce, David HydeNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Sendak, MauriceIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Wilson, RainnNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always.
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"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly," as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."
Well, since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
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Please distinguish between this LT Work, which is Norton Juster's original The Phantom Tollbooth (1961), and the edition annotated by Leonard Marcus (2011). Thank you.
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