The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth is children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster and published on 1961-08-12.

Review

Good

• The book has a fun whimsical story. It reminds me of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
• There are a lot of word play all throughout the book, several occurrences of which were quite clever.

Bad

• Not all of the wordplay is clever, much of it is rather bland, and some of it is even tedious.
• The deus ex machina of Tock saving the group from a fall because "time flies" was silly.

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