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Team Rodent : How Disney Devours the World |  | Author: Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0345422805
Dewey Decimal Number: 384.80979494
EAN: 9780345422804
ASIN: 0345422805
Publication Date: May 5, 1998
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Amazon.com Review
Let's get one thing straight: Carl Hiaasen doesn't like the Walt Disney Company. Whenever the giant entertainment conglomerate stumbles, as it did with its proposed Civil War theme park in Virginia, Hiaasen cheers. When a rhinoceros mysteriously dies at Disney's new theme park, Animal Kingdom, Hiaasen secretly hopes for the worst, because, as he writes, "no scandal is so delectable as a Disney scandal." A native of Florida, author of such thrillers as Lucky You and Strip Tease, and a journalist for the Miami Herald, Hiaasen comes by his dislike for Disney honestly. He has witnessed the relentless success of the Disney machine firsthand with the development of Disney World and other properties around Orlando. In Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, Hiaasen paints a witty and sarcastic portrait in this nonfiction account of a company who can control the press, manipulate local governments, and because it's Disney, get away with it. Team Rodent is a quick, entertaining read that even the most loyal Disney shareholder (except maybe Michael Eisner) will find enlightening and amusing. --Harry C. Edwards
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"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning God's work."
--from TEAM RODENT
TEAM RODENT
How Disney Devours America
"Revulsion is good. Revulsion is healthy. Each of us has limits, unarticulated boundaries of taste and tolerance, and sometimes we forget where they are. Peep Land is here to remind us; a fixed compass point by which we can govern our private behavior. Because being grossed out is essential to the human experience; without a perceived depravity, we'd have nothing against which to gauge the advance or decline of culture; our art, our music, our cinema, our books. Without sleaze, the yardstick shrinks at both ends. Team Rodent doesn't believe in sleaze, however, nor in old-fashioned revulsion. Square in the middle is where it wants us all to be, dependable consumers with predictable attitudes. The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America's values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company, and not the other way around."
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 Inventing a better mouse trap June 24, 2010
Skeptical Eye (New York)
is what needs to be done.
What great book about a Real Evil Empire.
Mouse Ears??!! January 2, 2010
ITZME (Dallas, TX)
A very interesting slant on the Disney Corporation as stated by a Floridian reporter/writer. This is actually a very long essay. Takes only a short time to read and process.
he Rat skewered by facts August 17, 2008
Robert Maleeny
Hiassen puts his background as a jounalist to work. With the combination of quality research and his legendary ascerbic wit someone finally skewers the Rat kingdom as it deserves.
Hiassen book August 12, 2008
Susan S. Doran (Akron, Ohio)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
My book was delivered shortly after I ordered it and arrived in very good condition. I haven't read the whole book yet but soon will. Amazon has always delivered without any delay and never has been damaged.
 "Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil." -Which is ripe for satire. June 13, 2008
mirasreviews (McLean, VA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This little 83-page tract against The Walt Disney Company is intended to entertain more than inform or even proselytize. Carl Hiaasen grew up in Florida, where Disney reigns supreme. Disney has devoured Florida, the United States, and, Hiaasen predicts, will gobble up the world. So he relishes a Disney scandal, and he's collected a few of them in "Team Rodent". Hiaasen sees something evil in Disney's obsession with being good -or appearing to be good. What he finds most objectionable are the lengths to which Disney will go to "superimpose its own recreation-based reality", "a sublime and unbreakable artificiality", on the real thing. So "Team Rodent" celebrates Disney's failures and exposes its hypocrisies.
Hiaasen is not pleased that Walt Disney World acquired its own government by creating its own municipality in Florida. "The Vatican with mouse ears," some say. He takes swipes at Michael Eisner, Disney's board of directors, its housing developments, adult entertainment, animal cruelty, abuse of power, and anything else that might blot the company's image. Hiaasen has some good things to say about Disney too. This isn't a polemic so much as an exasperated, amusing critique. I think he could have said more about the strange requirements of employees at Disney's theme parks. But I've hated everything Disney since my family dragged me to Disneyland when I was four. So I think "Team Rodent" is pretty funny.
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