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Carl Hiaasen
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  • Paperback: 83 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.; 1 edition (24 Jun 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0345422805
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345422804
  • Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 0.7 x 20.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 255,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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3.0 out of 5 stars Upset by Disney urbanizing the State, 7 Oct 2007
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M. A. Ramos (Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Team Rodent (Library of Contemporary Thought) (Paperback)
A novelist and Florida columnist laments the overwhelming presence of the Walt Disney Company, especially in his state.

Hiaasen blames Disney for the ugly sprawl that is Orlando while pointing out that Disney World itself is not subject to urban planning regulations. On this count he is accurate. When Disney moved in, all land they purchased seemed to be exempt from many regulations. But as much as he laments on the evils of the Mouse, the largest damage is done by all the smaller companies that build up around Disney to take advantage of the millions of tourist flocking to the Magic Kingdom.

But he fails to mentions all the jobs they provide. Though many employees say they do not like their rules and regulations. All successful companies must have them, especially when your business is the entertainment and safety of children. And lets be clear, all children love the Disney experience.

Hiaasen asserts that Disney building their store was the genesis that cleaned up Time Square in New York. While in truth, they only agreed to open their store if Giuliani promised and followed through to clean up that part of town. And the Mayor was able to accomplish the required goals, at least on the surface.

It is worth reading, but it is not up to his normal standards. It would have been better if the author used his investigative skills to gather some facts. This small book it is a very short and easy read. There is strong language.
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14 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable, 10 July 2002
This review is from: Team Rodent (Library of Contemporary Thought) (Paperback)
"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil: so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscienctious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pur wickedness". The statement says it all, this book is a no holds barred attack on Disney's (lack of) morals and the underhand destruction of Florida and American culture in its hands. An absolute must for people who trully care about this world.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Team Rodent Nothing New, 19 Aug 2002
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Colin AE Coulter (Donaghadee, Down United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Without a doubt this book shows how the Disney Corporation led by Walt himself took a piece of Florida and made it into a multi million dollar operation. This is an interesting insight into the mind of the author and well worth reading, not because it makes any great revelations about Disney more that it shows that there are people in the world who want it all their own way. I doubt that there are more than a handful of people across the world who think that Disney does not operate to make money for its owners. Why then does the author think it wrong that Walt Disney sent out anonymous buyers to obtain land at a fraction of the cost it would have had to pay had Disney made it public it wished to buy land in central Florida. The author constantly tries to portray Disney as a place of evil with an evil security force "The Goofy Gendarmes" so what if they use police style codes and chase intruders of the premises. The other wrong doings highlighted in the book of the Disney Corporation he deservedly brings to public knowledge but why does he feel that he has to belittle the job that these people do. And why does he claim to want to be banned from the parks yet tell us he brought his children to them. The author tells us that he does not like tourists passing his home, I think he has hit the nail on the head "he does not like tourists" he would like the parks to close I doubts the thousands of people who are employed directly or indirectly as a result of the Disney parks would disagree. Still the book gives an insight into the workings of the corporation even though we know Disney did not build his empire as a children's charity some of the revelations are thought provoking.
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