Reviewed by: Proginoskes unXed
Oh yeah!!! A Confusion category! To whoever did this: THANK YOU!!! Now I can write a reveiw on The Phantom Tollbooth. I would have been too ashamed to say it was just a fantasy or an adventure book. Here goes:
There was a boy named Milo who did not know what to do with himself in a great many ways. As it says in the book, he could not see the point in learning where Ethiopia is or how to spell February. When he gets home one boring day(they all were boring), he finds a package. I shall now qoute the book. “For, while it was not quite square, it was definitely not round, and for its size it was larger than almost any other big package of smaller dimension that he’d ever seen.” Whew! Wasn’t that amazing? The package was adressed:”FOR MILO, WHO HAS PLENTY OF TIME.” It was a tollbooth. And since it was a very boring day, our dear Milo decided to give it a try.
He gets into his little electric car and drives through the tollbooth. The next time he is in his room you will find he is quite different. The first place he visits is Expetations. Beyond Expections is really beyond Milo’s expectations. His real adventure starts at Dictionopolis, the city of word, letters, sentences, and the like. He is joined by Tock, the watchdog that really ticks and Humbug, who usually lives up to his name to go on a quest. But don’t expect an ordinary adventure book sorta quest. Yes, you will meet many peculiar creature and run into many ideas that don’t usually quite make sense(but sometimes make more sense than ordinary things) when you think about it ( because when you read it you’ll have to think about to make any sense out of it) which is what makes Confusion what it really is(and what it isn’t).
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July 12th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
If you like books that include many play on words, this is a book for you. It definitely made me think that being bored is a choice and I shouldn’t let myself get into the Doldrums.
November 26th, 2006 at 9:47 am
I loved this book so much! My Language Arts class read it together,but most of the time we listened to the tape, so if you ever get a chance check out the book on tape the person who reads it make different voies for each character so you can know who is talking it’s really neet check it out some time!
March 15th, 2007 at 9:08 am
It been a really long time since I read that and I think I should read it again now.