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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster [Juster, Norton] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review"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 tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm

Who reads The Phantom Tollbooth?

Author

Norton Juster [Juster, Norton]

Publisher

Epstein & Carroll : Distributed by Random House

Published

1961

Language

EN

ISBN

9780590409179

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Children'S

Rating

4.22 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14