Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2504561 in Books
• Published on: 1996-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

best Book I ever read.
Jilly is a lonely child, living in a trailer with a family who won't even notice or care whether she's there or not. one day she visits the travelling circus and witnesses Millroy the Magician on stage. Millroy interacts with the children, but is his magic real? He notices Jilly and immediately there is a spark between the two. Jilly leaves home to travel with millroy, dressed as a boy to avoid misunderstandings. obsessed with healthy eating, Millroy opens the Number One diner, which he staffs with children who he believes are open minded enough to understand his plans to make a healthy world. The diner takes off, but the other children are jealous of Milroy's favouritism towards jilly and splinter groups begin to form. although the book has many children characters, it is not a children's book and certainly not sugary.
I have been a total booksworm for over thirty years and this is still, by a long way, the best book I've ever read. It is a love story of the highest degree, a book full of strange happenings and the best anti-Macdonalds novel you could ever hope for. There is just simply nothing negative to say about this book it is Theroux at his absolute best.

CONJURING THE MAGIC IN THEROUX's WORDS
I,ve read and enjoyed Theroux's travel books such as the intensive yet fulfilling Pillars of Hercules and The Great Railway Bazzar. However I have personally found that the travel writer Theroux excells in his fiction. For Millroy The Magician .Theroux has created an iconic charecter in the magician who comes on the scene in small town America to begin an unusual liason with a 14 year old girl.For to long this excellant masterpiece has been over shadowed by Theroux's more inferior yet overated works. A dazzling rags to riches saga of misadventures. Millroy is a 90's messiah for his disciples of under privelaged youths.This is a superb and compulsive page turner like no other and even superior to Theroux's Kowloon Tong and Doctor Slaughter. Paul Theroux is underated as a novelist and has so much more to offer Hollywood than The Mosquito Coast and Doctor Slaughter .Milroy The Magician is Theroux at his spellbinding excellance.

Milroy the Magician
Well this book is something else altogether, mans fascination with a healthy stool is taken to whole new lengths. It takes you on a journey through a young girls eyes with a man of magic and deep rooted toilet philosophy. I had never thought of magicians quite the way I do now after reading this mighty tome of fibre and significants. Truly on to make your bowels quiver with expectations of a worthy awe inspiring dump.