Rating: 5 stars
Cover synopsis: For Milo, everything's a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things are different. He learns about time from a ticking watchdog, and embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Along the way, Milo realizes life is far from dull.
Delightful. Absolutely delightful. I loved this book as a kid, and I love it even more as an adult.
This is a sort of "Alice in Wonderland" trip of words. Everything is a play on words, and it's outrageously clever and insightful. The one-liners were wonderful -- I wanted to highlight every-other sentence. It's jam-packed with morals and cautionary tales, but the overarching theme of wisdom, knowledge and intellectual exploration are priceless -- and timeless.
Here are a handful of my favorite lines from the book:
"You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."
"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."
"The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort."
"What you CAN do is often simply a matter of what you WILL do."
And of course:
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
