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Team Rodent : How Disney Devours the World
by Carl Hiaasen
from Ballantine Books
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
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he Rat skewered by facts 
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.
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Hiassen book
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.
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"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil." -Which is ripe for satire. 
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... more info
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A brief comment
Hiaasen is mostly known for his bitingly funny and wacky novels, but here he delves into the essay genre in a funny, extended rant on the evils of the Disney empire. I enjoyed the book but it could probably have been cut down by one third or even half and it would have been all right. Many of the things he talks about are true, but much of it is satire, too, just like his fiction. His discussion of how the Disney World parks insisted on having their own police force, however, separate from the Florida... more info
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