Motel of the Mysteries
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547348629 (0547348622)
Publish date: October 11th 1979
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Humor,
Funny,
Science Fiction,
Art,
Picture Books,
Anthropology,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics
I'm glad I read this again. I understand so much more of what's going on, though I know I'm still missing a great deal. It is so humorous to see them continually get things wrong. The TV as an altar - though that's not terribly far off - the bathroom as the inner burial chamber, and Monument Row. ...
Sometime in junior high or high school I bumped into Motel of the Mysteries in a library. And while I'm not sure it changed my life, it intrigued me like crazy, because other kids that I talked to weren't sure if it was real or not. The text seemed to imply that this was all true, sort of. (I don't ...
I first read this book when I was around 8 or 9 years old. It is a richly descriptive and satirical look at the archaeology/physical anthropology of our present (or the present at the time of publication, 1979) in the distant future. Page by page, future archaeologist Howard Carson uncovers the unto...
Pretty much a one-note joke, but fun.
I've read quite a few of David Macauley's books, mostly the ones like [b:Castle|847018|Castle|David Macaulay|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1295715078s/847018.jpg|1499337]: meticulously illustrated and highly researched nonfiction. Motel of the Mysteries is another thing entirely. Set nearly two mille...
10 years ago
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