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"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time,"
Milo laments. "[T]here''s nothing for me to do, nowhere I''d care to
go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young
protagonist who can''t see the point to anything is knocked out of
his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a
內容簡介:
一个乏味至极的下午,觉得一切都了无生趣的男孩米洛,在自己的房间发现一个神奇的收费亭。他开着电动玩具车,驶过收费亭,踏上一趟不可思议的奇妙旅程。
一路上,米洛曾身陷懒散国、误入结论岛,还在词语国锒铛入狱。但他在伙伴闹钟狗和骗人虫的帮助下,一次次转危为安,还邂逅了“哪个”婆婆、色彩大师、向下长的男孩、十二面体人、噪音医生等有趣的朋友。最后,米洛勇敢地前往无知山,去帮助词语国和数字国营救韵律公主和真理公主,但是每前进一步都有恶魔相阻。米洛从朋友们身上学到的东西能帮他战胜这些恶魔吗?
Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers
around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large
toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog
named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth''s gates and begins a
memorable journey. He meets such characters as the foolish, yet
lovable Humbug, the Mathemagician, and the not-so-wicked " Which, "
Faintly Macabre, who gives Milo the " impossible" mission of
returning two princesses to the Kingdom of Wisdom.
An Appreciation
1.Milo
2.Beyond Expectations
3.Welcome to Dictionopolis
4.Confusion in tlle Market Place
5.Short Shrift
6.Faintly Macabre''s Story
7.The Royal Banquet
8.The Humbug Volunteers
9.It''s All in How You Look at Things
10.A Colorful Symphony
11.Dischord and Dynne
12.The Silent Valley
13.Unfortunat.e Conclusions
14.The.Dodecahedron Leads the Way
15.This Way to Infinity.
16.A verv Dirty Bird,
17.Unwelcoming Committee
18.Castle in the Air
19.The Return of Rhyme and Reason
20.Good—by and Hello