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Summary: Looking for the Turnpike
Review: Norton Juster's book is ostensibly a children's book. However, like much of children's literature, it contains hidden (and not so hidden) aspects that are of delight to adults as well. This, when you think of it, makes sense--the point of children's literature is to educate as well as entertain (one hopes!), therefore, it makes sense that some of the lessons will be more 'adult' than the actual storyline would seem to indicate.Milo and his various friends and enemies encountered along the way serve to illustrate many of the foibles and quirks of adult life. The Phantom Tollbooth serves as a gateway to a place that embodies the physical manifestations of metaphors. For instance, in Dictionopolis (a city of words) Milo is invited to a banquet at which one must eat one's words. Just as in our world, sometimes those words can be sour and very hard to swallow. Also, while you can jump to the Isle of Conclusions, you must reach the mainland again only by swimming through the sea of knowledge. And the water is cold. It is not easy to recover from having jumped to conclusions. The interplay between concepts, the tension between words and numbers, the divisions and alliances that are made, the enemies who seem to be friends, all of these serve to make a delightful play which will interest children and adults. Milo, of course, makes it home safely after a fascinating journey, and while he would like to take another trip, the phantom tollbooth is needed elsewhere for other children, too. However, Milo realises that he has his own tollbooth in his imagination, and thus the adventure need never end.
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Summary: "Reading is Good" when reading this!
Review: Okay, here's the short story. Kid who is always bored finds a tollbooth and sets out on an adventure with a "watch"dog. Long story, a boy named Milo is always bored. He feels there is never anything exciting to do. One day, a toolbooth mysteriously appears in his room. He builds it and enters a magic, amazing world. He meets Tock, a watchdog, with a watch on his body. He also meets the Humbug. The three of them set out from to Digitopolis from Dictionopois to convince the Mathamagacian to let them bring back Rhyme and Reason. Rhyme and Reason are two princesses who gave advice and were locked away for some reason. All in all, this book is amazing, filled with laughs and laughs and is just addictive. I've read it seven times, and often find myself reading now once a year. And it is always exciting!
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Summary: The Most Incredible Book In The History Of Books
Review: OMG! What is there to say? I love this book so much. I cried when I reached the last page because I never wanted it to end. I love this book so much I have read it 5 times in the past year. Milo is a young boy who thinks everything is boring and worthless and pointless. One day a tollbooth appears in his room so he drives through it. After he drives through it he finds himself in a magical land. He soon befriends a watchdog (literally) named Tock. Milo and Tock venture through many lands like Dictionopolis and The Silent Valley. They meet tons of really odd yet cool creatures. And finally they save the princesses, Rhyme and Reason, and they resolve all conflict in the land. I don`t wanna give away the exact end so I`ll stop here by saying.......You NEED to read this book. It`s one of those books that you`ll want to pass down for generations. For some it might even change your lives. This book ventures into the true meanings of things and it gives you a whole new point of view. It doesn`t matter how set in your ways you are. This book WILL change you. Whoever doesn`t read this book is missing out on something really wonderful.
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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: Phantom Tollbooth Written By Norton Juster Reviewed by Adam Milo is a kid with no opinion about anything. He never likes what he is doing, but sees no point in doing anything else. As he says, "It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time. There's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." One day he receives a strange package containing one genuine tollbooth, one set of instructions, and one road map. Expecting this to be just a dumb activity, Milo puts the tollbooth together and drives through it in a small electric car. He travels through a strange land to a city called Dictionopolis, on the way picking up the Watch dog Tock, who has a watch for a body. Once in Dictionopolis, Milo, Tock, and their newfound friend the watchdog and the Humbug are caught up in a quest to save the princesses Rhyme and Reason and restore order to the world. On the way he meets strange people like the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be") and Alec Bings who sees the other side of things and is born in the air and grows down to the ground. Milo and his newfound friends Tock the watchdog and the Humbug are caught up in a quest to save the princesses Rhyme and Reason and restore order to the world. Norton Juster does a great job making The Phantom Tollbooth enjoyable and humorous. He combines clever puns and real pieces of literature and math to make an extremely interesting story. " I read [The Phantom Tollbooth] first when I was 10. I still have the book report I wrote, which began 'This is the best book ever.'" --Anna Quindlen, The New York Times "A classic... Humorous, full of warmth and real invention." --The New Yorker I rate this book 10/10 stars.
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Summary: The Best Book EVER!
Review: Someone gave me this book a long time ago and I didn't read it until I was absolutly too bored.Boy did I miss out on reading this wonderful book until the last second.This book helped me in Literature class when we had a discussion on irony and i can almost always relate it to my life.
Norton Juster made this book simple to read and it is a wonderful book to pick up on a rainy day or any day.
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Summary: Anthony from Richview
Review: The main or impotnt characters are Milo, Tock, Humbug, The demons, Ryme and Reasom,The two brothers of Dictionapolis and Digitoplis, The King's advisors, the duke and the Spelling bee. The beggening of the story starts out with a boy named Milo, who worries about nothing at all. One day he sees a package in his room with a tollbooth. Using the tollbooth he travels to a different world. He meets some fiends on the way,(Tock and Humbug). Which helps him travels to the castle in the play. They meet other people on the way which helps them solve promblems and questions they need to defeat the demons. The sory gets intersting when they ruscue the princes and is trying to escape all the demons. The end of the story ends when they boy goes to school and come back ,the tollbooth is gone with a note on the floor. The note stated that other boys and girls around the word that needs the tollbooth , because you have learned your lesson of there is alot of things out there in the world to do.i like this book because it is good adventure book with all the promblems the boy have to complete his journey. I recomend this book with a person with goood imagination or a person that likes comedy. To me there were no really parts tha were bad or parts that make you want to stop reading the book.
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Summary: The Phanttom Toll Booth
Review: The Phantom Toll Booth was a wonderful book it takes you away to a different place. A place where things are all about the facts of life ...yeah I know it dosen't sound as interesting but it is very exciting . The characters are funny and once you're done you'll be thirsting for more.Just think yoor stranded in your own world,sounds cool dosent it!
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Summary: the phantom tollbooth- a tollbooth in the imagination
Review: The phantom tollbooth is a great book that I think should be read at any age. I first read it when I was about 7 and still enjoy it. It doesn't matter what your age is to enjoy this fantasic out of this world (literally) book.
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Summary: The Phantom Tollbooth Review
Review: The Phantom Tollbooth is a very interesting, fun, creative book. Throughout the book, a young boy travels in a twisted, exciting world where he comes across many tasks that he must complete, or fears to overcome, in order to move on. The young boy must adjust to his strange surroundings, and eventually free the two worlds, one based upon letters, and the other on numbers, from their constant arguing by freeing the two princesses of rhyme and reason that bring happiness to both worlds, allowing them to unite and be friendly.
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Summary: The Good book
Review: The Phantom Tollbooth is about a 10 year old boy Milo on a journey for knowledge. He ends up meeting friends on the way like the humbug whos the laziest person i could ever meet. Then theres tock the watchdog who dosent want people to waste time. Also king Azaz the ruler of dictionopolis where they basiclly worship words,and mathamagician who is the is the king of digitopolis where they basicly worship numbers. King Azas and the mathamagician banished there sisters Rhyme and reason from there lands and the kings kept fitting. Now Milo has to get rhyme and reason to set the peace. I Think the The Phantom Tollbooth was a good book. It had lots of action. JEB
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