[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 137 KB, 200x291, a good book.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3794779 No.3794779 [Reply] [Original]

Who here likes the Phantom Tollbooth? If not, go away. This is a Phantom Tollbooth thread.

>> No.3794784

>>>/redddit/

>> No.3794790
File: 87 KB, 640x480, spice_and_wolf_horo_iii_2-wallpaper-640x480.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3794790

>>3794779
>This is a Phantom Tollbooth thread.

You got there by jumping, didn't you?

>> No.3794797

>>3794790
No, I got here by not thinking. I'm sitting here in the Doldrums, just wasting time.

>> No.3794836
File: 33 KB, 302x311, tollboothchap2_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3794836

>>3794797
WASTING TIME?!?!?!

>> No.3794843
File: 137 KB, 324x400, TerribleTrivium.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3794843

>>3794779
This book is just fucking magical.
Look it had Slenderman before Slenderman was cool.

>> No.3794847

I liked the kid who grew down instead of up. I think his name was Alex.

>> No.3794850
File: 78 KB, 300x381, trivium.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3794850

>> No.3794863

>>3794850
Perfect.

>> No.3794876

>>3794847
Alec. My favorite parts were probably the chromatic orchestra and the whole bit with the market square.

>>3794850
It's beautiful.

>> No.3795018

As a child I loved with the animation. I'd have my parents rent it over and over again from the library, but I never read the book.

Then, many years later, while taking a bunch of recreational adderall and going to a breakbeat show, I was walking along the vacant streets of downtown San Diego thinking magical thoughts when I found a copy laying on the corner like OP's picture, very beat up and worn. What a great prize to have found, I thought, and immediately sat down on the curb and read until dawn.

>> No.3795167

Watered down Alice but still fun

>> No.3797094

>>3795167
Alice in Wonderland was about being pointless.
The Phantom Tollbooth is just the opposite.

>> No.3797100

I read the phantom tollbooth like 10 years ago, and unlike most books, I don't remember a single thing about it

>> No.3797110

FUUUUUUUCCCKKKKKKK

I REMEMBER THIS BOOK.

I remember finding it wonderfully clever when I was 10. I wonder if I'll still find it so enjoyable.

>> No.3797111

>>3797100
Then read it again!

>> No.3797114

>>3794876
Is that the bit with the spelling Bs, and the edible letters?

God, I'm feeling nostalgic as hell.

>> No.3797164

>>3797114
Yep, that's it.

>>3797110
The book's timeless. It's the kind of book that you read as a child, and rather than looking back on it with disgust as an adult, you can read it again and it'll bring a warm smile to your face.

>> No.3797184

>>3797164
I'm definitely going to give it another read.