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Title: Toolbox by Fabio Morabito, Geoff Hargreaves, Bernard Reclamier ISBN: 1-58234-061-7 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 29 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (16 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating!
Comment: I've never read anything even remotely like this book--it's so ingenious and so unpredictable. You can never guess how a paragraph will end. I tried to again and again, but could never anticipate the direction of Morabito's mind. Uncanny stuff!

Rating: 5
Summary: the hard cover
Comment: The abstraction to personification has a long ancestry in literature: from the bible, to Romance of the Rose, to this book of tools. So what is exceptional about Toolbox is not what Morabito does, but instead how [darn] well he does it. I could not read this book in one setting - it was far too rich for that. And I can see that for many years I will be returning to this book for that lemon twist taste on life. The hard cover edition makes a great coffee-table book, ensuring the regular attention it deserves. The only aspect of the hard cover edition which didn't appeal to me was the lame graphics (some of which can be seen on the cover). The graphics are not by Morabito and I found them a great waste of space and a boring two-dimensional accompaniment for such outstanding writing. I would have preferred to have seen some photography to match the quality of the text. Photographs may push up the price, but the writing commands excellence and it is a shame to see it brought down by ordinary graphics. I can appreciate that as a rule, the graphics should not up-stage the text, but you're not dealing with ordinary text here.
I also felt the justified text format was at times annoying.
Nevertheless, one of my most treasured purchases.

Rating: 5
Summary: A work of genius
Comment: A work of genius, delightful, and exquisitely translated by Geoff Hargreaves. You can also find some of Morabitos's work and Hargreaves' translations in TAMEME.