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The Brave Little Toaster (Hardcover)

by Thomas M. Disch (Author)
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Grade 3-5 At what point can the pathetic fallacy become lamentable idiocy? When electric household utensils not only speak but take to the open road, when this mechanomorphism is combined with anthropomorphism and when people are run by appliances. A vacuum cleaner, an electric blanket, a lamp and a clock-radio, rallied by the pop-up of the title, leave a vacation cottage unvisited by their owner for over two years to find him in Winnipeg, Canada. On the way they meet a talking squirrel and a villainous recluse who almost junks them in the city dump. Without much strain, they elude this perfectly reasonable end and find their owner's new apartment, settle in with his newer gadgets and arrange to be swapped to (who else?) a decrepit ballerina who loves them for their special purposes. Disch writes gracefully (well above the vocabulary level indicated by the format), lacking only a believable concept or the power to impose internal logic on the unbelievable. In 78 print-crowded pages there are fewer than a dozen technically excellent, although static, soft pencil cartoons. Fantasy overload. Lillian N. Gerhardt, "School Library Journal"
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 Not as good as the movie, Mai 1 2001
Par Dark Helmet (Seattle, WA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Ce commentaire est de: The Brave Little Toaster (Hardcover)
Yes, this is one of the rare cases where the movie based on the book is better than the book itself. I felt that in an effort to make the characters more 'appliance-like' the author totally eschewed any characterization. The characters are rather flat and boring, with almost no individual personalities. They do not even have names, rather going by 'the toaster' 'the lamp' 'the blanket' ect. While most of the plot points are the same, the ending is vastly different than the movie's, and almost an anticlimax. The fact that you can buy the movie at almost any video store and the book is out of print IMHO speaks volumes. I gave the movie 4 stars. The book barely makes two.
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