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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 384.80979494
EAN: 9780345422804
ISBN: 0345422805
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: May 05, 1998
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: May 05, 1998
Sales Rank: 40274
Studio: Ballantine Books
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"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning God's work."
--from TEAM RODENT
TEAM RODENT
How Disney Devours America
"Revulsion is good. Revulsion is healthy. Each of us has limits, unarticulated boundaries of taste and tolerance, and sometimes we forget where they are. Peep Land is here to remind us; a fixed compass point by which we can govern our private behavior. Because being grossed out is essential to the human experience; without a perceived depravity, we'd have nothing against which to gauge the advance or decline of culture; our art, our music, our cinema, our books. Without sleaze, the yardstick shrinks at both ends. Team Rodent doesn't believe in sleaze, however, nor in old-fashioned revulsion. Square in the middle is where it wants us all to be, dependable consumers with predictable attitudes. The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America's values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company, and not the other way around."
Amazon.com Review:
Let's get one thing straight: Carl Hiaasen doesn't like the Walt Disney Company. Whenever the giant entertainment conglomerate stumbles, as it did with its proposed Civil War theme park in Virginia, Hiaasen cheers. When a rhinoceros mysteriously dies at Disney's new theme park, Animal Kingdom, Hiaasen secretly hopes for the worst, because, as he writes, "no scandal is so delectable as a Disney scandal."
A native of Florida, author of such thrillers as Lucky You and Strip Tease, and a journalist for the Miami Herald, Hiaasen comes by his dislike for Disney honestly. He has witnessed the relentless success of the Disney machine firsthand with the development of Disney World and other properties around Orlando. In Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, Hiaasen paints a witty and sarcastic portrait in this nonfiction account of a company who can control the press, manipulate local governments, and because it's Disney, get away with it. Team Rodent is a quick, entertaining read that even the most loyal Disney shareholder (except maybe Michael Eisner) will find enlightening and amusing. --Harry C. Edwards
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Hiassen puts his background as a jounalist to work. With the combination of quality research and his legendary ascerbic wit someone finally skewers the Rat kingdom as it deserves.
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My book was delivered shortly after I ordered it and arrived in very good condition. I haven't read the whole book yet but soon will. Amazon has always delivered without any delay and never has been damaged.
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This little 83-page tract against The Walt Disney Company is intended to entertain more than inform or even proselytize. Carl Hiaasen grew up in Florida, where Disney reigns supreme. Disney has devoured Florida, the United States, and, Hiaasen predicts, will gobble up the world. So he relishes a Disney scandal, and he's collected a few of them in "Team Rodent". Hiaasen sees something evil in Disney's obsession with being good -or appearing to be good. What he finds most objectionable are the lengths ... Read More
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Hiaasen is mostly known for his bitingly funny and wacky novels, but here he delves into the essay genre in a funny, extended rant on the evils of the Disney empire. I enjoyed the book but it could probably have been cut down by one third or even half and it would have been all right. Many of the things he talks about are true, but much of it is satire, too, just like his fiction. His discussion of how the Disney World parks insisted on having their own police force, however, separate from the Florida ... Read More
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Before you spend $9 on this book you need to know that it's less than 100 pages. This is not so much a book but a critical essay. Many Disney lovers have obviously read and reviewed this book and written scathing reviews, you will notice that most of these reviewers live far away from the Disney machine. I grew up in Florida and lived for 4 years of it in Orlando, less than 20 minutes from Disney. Many of my friends worked there, we dealt with the Disney machine on a daily basis.
This ... Read More
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