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Original Essays | October 17, 2009

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My Catholic friend tilted her teacup like a fortune-teller. "You know," she said, "I think people who don't have God in their lives are like people... Continue »
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Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay

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It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
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About the Author

David Macaulay is the author and illustrator of many exciting and unusual books for readers of all ages, including the international bestseller The New Way Things Work; Caldecott Medal-winner Black and White, and Caldecott Honor Award-winners Castle and Cathedral; and Building Big, the companion book to the successful PBS Series. Other awards he has received include the Boston GlobeHorn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, the Washington Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, and a Dutch Silver Slate Pencil Award. In 2006 he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given to "to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations." Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books. A graduate of and former teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design, Mr. Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont.
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scifigurl66, March 18, 2009 (view all comments by scifigurl66)
I LOVE this book. It will please may, including folks like me who love for-lack-of-a-better-term anthropological scifi and fantasy. If you like this, check out Macaulay's Black and White which is mind-tweaking in a different way. Well, you really can't go wrong with Macaulay.
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medieval_student, July 20, 2006 (view all comments by medieval_student)
Especially to historians--but in fact to everyone--this must be one of the most hysterically funny lampoons ever written of over-eager romantic interpretations of the past--as funny as Robert Nathan's "Digging the Weans." In MOTEL, Macaulay, the writer-illustrator-historian of techology who gave us CASTLE and CATHEDRAL (right up my winding Medieval lane!), drew a picture of a lady who strangely resembles Heinrich Schliemann's wife, Sophia, but instead of wearing the purported "treasure of Priam" around her neck she wears a ritual toilet seat. And there are many more important discoveries of ritual & romance discovered by Howard--(hmm; coincidental name, eh?--, excavator of the Toot 'n' C'mon Motel. You'd need to be dead not to love this one!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780395284254
Author:
Macaulay, David
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Location:
Boston :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Civilization, Modern
Subject:
Humorous Stories
Subject:
Humorous
Subject:
North America
Subject:
Humor
Subject:
Form - Parodies
Subject:
Antiquities
Subject:
North America Antiquities Humor.
Subject:
Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
Subject:
North America Antiquities.
Copyright:
1979
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
96
Publication Date:
October 1979
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Young adult
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
96
Dimensions:
11.34x8.03x.37 in. .88 lbs.
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