Duck Duck Wally: A Novel (Hardcover)

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Rotter relies heavily on black street slang for comic effect in his zany debut, starting with chizapter 1. Wally Moscowitz, a self-described frumpy, kinda chubby little boring man living in Los Angeles, writes lyrics for rapper Oral B, the current star of Godz-Illa Records. When not penning lyrics full of four-letter words for Oral, Wally also writes dirty bedtime fables for adults, examples of which are sprinkled throughout the novel. Godz-Illa CEO Abraham Dandy Lyons has assured Wally that if anyone ever discovers that Oral B isn't writing his own lyrics, Wally will end up in a ditch. Soon, Wally's dog gets 'napped, goons are trying to kill Wally and everyone rushes to and fro against a backdrop of glitzy L.A. bizness thuggery. Rotter's a talented writer, though readers who find variations of the same joke funny enough to support the silly plot will be most rewarded.
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"In addition to being a kick-ass debut novel, Duck Duck Wally is a complete abs workout that will tone and tighten your entire core! I haven't laughed this hard in a long time."

-- Will Clarke, author of The Worthy and Lord Vishnu's Love Handles --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1 edition (August 14, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416537864
• ISBN-13: 978-1416537861
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,033,841 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars laughs aplenty, August 14, 2007

By	Jane Readmore "JR" - See all my reviews

I'm not really a huge fiction reader or one to post amazon reviews, but I work for a magazine and we received this book a few months ago for review. It has been passed around our office non-stop since we got it. My co-worker INSISTED that I read it, and I am very glad that i did. It was the funniest and most compulsively readable novel I have read, maybe ever. Just so much fun. i hope it does well because i want more!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very funny book, August 20, 2007

By	Margaret Olmsted (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a very funny book: great characters, great plot and wonderfully funny diaglog, rhymes and rapping. I look forward to more books from Gabe Rotter!!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVED THIS BOOK, August 3, 2007

By	JRG "JRG" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This book ROCKED!!! I read it in one day and loved every second of it. It is really clever and flows so smoothly into and out of each twist and turn. I laughed the entire way through it. If this was his first novel, I can't wait to see what the author does next.