- Taschenbuch: 96 Seiten
- Verlag: Ballantine Books; Auflage: 1 (5. Mai 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0345422805
- ISBN-13: 978-0345422804
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,8 x 0,7 x 20,9 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (52 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 340.631 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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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
Kurzbeschreibung
"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."
--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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Carl Hiaasen's writing is always entertaining, but seldom is it as dark as this piece of work. He takes shots at perhaps the most sacred force in America, and maybe the world, today. Anyone living in Florida, Anaheim CA, or anywhere else Disney decides to take over know the way it operates, and the insanity and vigor which they operate with. Though this writing is well thought out, you can't help but feel an anger for Disney. What brought about this anger? Is it the take over of Florida and the dying tourism in southern Florida, or is this essay simply the raving of a man who had to wait too long in line for the Tea Cups ride. Either way, it's a good book, and a definite read on the future of corporate America.
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Amusing and frightening all at the same time. Hiaasen's description of Disney's autonomous government is delicious food for any paranoid nut case. But it's also good for those who want to hear the good, the bad, and especially the ugly about the Disney empire. I worked for Disney after graduating college. Picture a starry-eyed theatre graduate who has dreams of success, fame, and riches all compliments of the mouse. I was ready to eat, sleep, and sh*! pixie dust. What I got instead was a 2 1/2 hour wait in the employment office only to be intervied by some middle management company loyalist who shuffled me off to a $5.95 an hour job parking strollers for "Pocahontas and Her Merry Band of Woodland Creatures" (I'm actually paraphrasing the title of the show, but you get the idea.)And what's worse, I asked about how long it would take to get a promotion into an area related to my field and I was told it generally takes two to three years. A schlep with no social skills, a bad haircut, and a computer science degree can go make $50,000 plus for a software firm his first year, but it will take me 2-3 years to have the chance to hand the title character from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" a cup of Gatorade when he comes off stage after his big musical number. Anyhoo, this book is a great read for all anti-corporate supporters. Some other issues I would have like to have seen would be the company's labor exploitations, since this is the area I have most familiarity with. Believe me, there's nothing like going home and looking at your hard earned college degree staring at you on the wall as you strip yourself of your "Camp Minnie Mickey" camp counselor jean shorts, shirt, and boots (all company property and is to be returned at the time of termination, or something like that). But something tells me I was stripped of something other than company owned threads. I was stripped of personal dignity (for having to wear those ridiculous duds) and faith in Disney as a company who valued imagination over profit. Oh well, serves me right for having faith in a multi-national conglomerate. Maybe I should go work for Microsoft.
Format:Taschenbuch
He starts to make some valid points (take it from someone who attends the university across town) and tells some entertaining stories, but it is poorly organized, overly short, and under researched. He could have put together something far more powerful with much sharper teeth. Come on Carl, we know you have more to say.
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A wickedly funny polemic on a fullly deserving corporation
As someone who witnessed, firsthand, the attempts by Disney to force feed their American history theme park down the throats of the good people of Northern Virginia, I can say... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Hiaasen's wit helps numb the pain of reality
Having grown up in Pinellas county Florida in the 60s it was easy to hate and be militant toward the obvious developers such as Hunt Corp., etc. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. September 1999 von J Michael
Hiaasen always hit the mark
Regardless if you agree with Hiaasen or not (I agree with him whole-heartedly) you have to admire his talent as a writer and envy his extensive vocabulary. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. September 1999 veröffentlicht
my sentiments exactly!
now feel free to substitute "mcdonald's" for "disney" or "dismal world" as my friend/former mouse employee called it.
Am 23. August 1999 veröffentlicht
An entertaining expose of Insane Clown Michael and Co.
I bought this book expecing to read a scathingly funny attack on Disney and I was not disappointed. As amusing as it often is, though, Hiaasen has also clearly spent a fair bit of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juni 1999 von Jer Fairall (j_fairall@yahoo.com)
NOTICE WHO IS TRASHING THIS BOOK:
Most of the negative reader reviews that complain about something other than the books brevity are by folks with Disney affiliations! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Humourous Exposure of An Enemy of Civilisation!!!
_Team Rodent_ does an excellent job of ripping away Disney's cutesy facade to reveal the company's many faults. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Mai 1999 von Andrew Carey
Co-authors of The Disney Way Know Better
We admit our bias, but this book chooses to focus on a great deal of personal "sour grapes", all from a reporter who apparently had some difficulty with the Disney... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Co-authors of The Disney Way Know Better
We admit our bias, but this book chooses to focus on a great deal of personal "sour grapes", all from a reporter who apparently had some difficulty with the Disney... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. April 1999 veröffentlicht
EXCELLENT PROSE, HONEST COMMENTARY
Finally someone has taken on Disney. Hiaasen is unafraid to tell about Disney's paranoid concern with their image, as well as a few other secrets I'm sure they would rather not... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. April 1999 veröffentlicht
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