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Title: Inside Disney: The Incredible Story of Walt Disney World and the Man Behind the Mouse by Eve Zibart ISBN: 0-02-863275-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting Information
Comment: For anyone interested in knowing more of the facts, details, trivia and a few stories behind Walt Disney World and the Disney Company this is an interesting book. It does tend to have it's dark side, but since it's an "unofficial" book that is expected. It was easy to get over those parts and move onto reading the more interesting facts and trivia provided.
Rating: 2
Summary: A cynical book written in magazine style.
Comment: I think Zibart misses the point with this book. It reads like a collection of magazine or newspaper articles, and has a highly cynical tone, that masquerades as investigative journalism.
Some portions of the book are interesting, but the most interesting parts are borrowed from widely available sources (she quotes Birnbaum's guide frequently). The review of Eisner era history is perhaps the most informative section of the book.
Zibart doesn't go to Disneyworld to be entertained or to have a good time, she is in search of a story, and she doesn't really find one. Her chapter on Disney's view of history is particularly mean spirited, and deconstructionist in nature. She often gets it wrong, looking for political correctness. She overlooks Disneyland as an historical antecedant to the WDW Magic Kindgom, in terms of ride development and change. She overlooks the value of Disney style entertainment in stimulating interest in history. She also applies a kind of psuedo-psychological analysis of Disney, which ultimately says much more about Ziebarts psychology than Walt's or Eisner's.
She spends far too much time writing about hidden Mickey's when that information is readily available on the Web. She doesn't give credit to her sources either.
There are better insider books available. This fails to be an expose or a well thought out critique.
Rating: 2
Summary: Little new, with condescension to boot
Comment: I came to the book looking for interesting inside tidbits. What I found was a book not well-researched, with a number of outright factual errors, such as the old urban legend that the top of the castle can be removed in the event of a hurricane.
All this is wrapped up in a post-modern smugness that makes the reading experience, while fast-moving, downright unpleasant at times.
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Title: Hidden Mickeys: A Field Guide to Walt Disney World's Best Kept Secrets by Steven M. Barrett ISBN: 1887140441 Publisher: Intrepid Traveler Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2004 by Bob Sehlinger ISBN: 0764526316 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando by Richard E. Foglesong ISBN: 0300098286 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Disney : The First 100 Years by David Smith, Steven B. Clark ISBN: 0786853808 Publisher: Disney Editions Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Mouse Under Glass : Secrets of Disney Animation and Theme Parks by David Koenig, Richard M. Herman, Robert B. Sherman ISBN: 0964060515 Publisher: Bonaventure Pr Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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