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I'm in my early 30s and I just now read this book for the first time :) So witty, so clever, and some great lines to take away. Definitely worth a read!
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I read and loved this book when I was a child. Now, I read it aloud with my six year old and we both really enjoyed it. Not all of the clever word play and puns made sense to my son, but enough did that he laughed a lot and he loved hearing about Milo and Tock and the Humbug. The illustrations also make the book more accessible and break up the reading. This book manages to be simultaneously an adult book and a children's book -- the jokes and situations seem to age well. I'll definitely reread
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Not going to read this book. I hate Milo. I managed one chapter.
Then I read another, just to give it a change. It didn't get much better.
The author seems to be very pleased with himself and think of himself very clever and funny. He isn't. Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass , Gulliver's Travels and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz instead. ...more
Then I read another, just to give it a change. It didn't get much better.
The author seems to be very pleased with himself and think of himself very clever and funny. He isn't. Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass , Gulliver's Travels and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz instead. ...more
I'm on a mission to reread books I read in my childhood and disliked but which seem to be universally beloved. This follows the Wrinkle in Time series. I think I'm starting to understand. I'm very logical and these books aren't and I expect that was my problem with them at the time.
As an adult, I can appreciate the wordplay, probably better than I could as a child, but the illogic still rankles, lol. I still dislike books when I can't see a purpose behind the narrative action or an author tells ...more
As an adult, I can appreciate the wordplay, probably better than I could as a child, but the illogic still rankles, lol. I still dislike books when I can't see a purpose behind the narrative action or an author tells ...more
Young Milo is bored with everything. One day he arrives home from school to discover a play tollbooth with instructions for travelling to another world. Deciding he might as well give it a try, he sets the tollbooth up and magically finds himself in a magical world. The Lands Beyond is chock full of imaginative wordplay, puzzles, and a quest in need of a hero. With his newfound "watch dog" Tock, Milo might be just the hero for the story.
The Phantom Tollbooth is a timeless classic that continues ...more
The Phantom Tollbooth is a timeless classic that continues ...more
I want to rate this 3.5 stars. I really enjoyed all the word play and the cleverness involved in this novel - it very much reminded me of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, many of the Roald Dahl books, and some of the Shel Silverstein silliness. The story developed a little slowly for me, though, which is one reason my 8yo, a precocious reader, has started this book twice and still not gotten into it.
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