Book : Team Rodent How Disney Devours The World - Hiaasen,..

-Titulo Original : Team Rodent How Disney Devours The World

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Ballantine Books

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Review Lets get one thing straight: Carl Hiaasen doesnt 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 Disneys 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 its 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 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 its unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isnt in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning Gods work.--from TEAM RODENTTEAM RODENTHow Disney Devours AmericaRevulsion 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, wed 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 doesnt 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 Americas values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company, and not the other way around. Review After opening with an overbilious screed against the companys signature blandness, the author settles down and rakes good muck. -- Entertainment Weekly, Troy Patterson From the Publisher Rarely is a book this much of a pleasure to work on, because I stopped on page after page to read and crack up at Hiaasens sharp and pointed wit--and then be shocked by the nasty things I never knew about Disney! I just went to Disney World for the very first time ever last year, so I was curious to see what Carl Hiaasen had to say about it--and I dont think Ill be going back again! E.Gaffney, production From the Inside Flap 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 its unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isnt in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning Gods work.--from TEAM RODENTTEAM RODENTHow Disney Devours AmericaRevulsion 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, wed have nothing against which to gauge the advance or decline of culture; our art, our music, our cinema, our books. Without sleaze, the