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Duck Duck Wally: A Novel

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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!

Duck Duck Wally is totally a guy's book. It's full of rap and violence and guy imagery and masculine concepts of what's cool and funny. It has Mother-Goose-type porn in it, for crying out loud. So how did a middle aged hen like my self come to love it so much? Easy - I was tricked, pulled in by the voice of the unassuming, frumpy, wallflower that is Wally.

See, I know Wally. You know him too. Everybody knows a Wally.

He's the guy in the yearbook no one remembers, the dude at work you walk by without noticing, the cousin who still sleeps in your aunt's basement, the brother of your best friend that you can never remember the name of, the driver of the broken down heap blocking the intersection, the guy who works in the back or the basement or whatever.

He is the average Joe that nothing much ever really happens to, the representation of all the faceless people that seem only to exist to witness the rest of the world's great accomplishments, which means he's me and, statistically speaking, he's probably you too.

Even though this guy is nobody, even though he's not good looking, even though he's a human doormat, even though he smells like bacon fat and it looks like he's slept in that t-shirt for three days straight, you'll jostle the crowd to get closer to him because this guy who never has anything to say worth saying has a story to tell, a you've-got-to-be-kidding-me story, a leaves you slack jawed and shaking your head story, a too-amazing-to-be-true story, and even though it is - it is fiction after all - you're going to hang on to every word he says because it happened to "this guy," this ordinary guy, this chubby-little-white-putz-that-writes-rap guy, and because it's the best damn story you've heard in a long time.

This book had me literally laughing out loud every where. On the train heading into the city a woman actually asked me what book I was reading that had me laughing so much. The way Gabe writes is amazingly honest to how your every day person would think in the same situation. Example; in the car with Oral B and his brothers. I was lol'ing at the entire situation.
I would absolutely recommend this to anyone looking for a quick entertaining read (finished it in 2 days, I love this kind of humor)

Got a recommendation from a friend I trust on this one, and I thought it was great, enjoyed every minute of it, reminded me a bit of Elmore Leonard Novel. Highly recommend this one!

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!!

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.

Once I found out what the premise for the book was I had to get it. I mean a doughy 30 something jewish guy who is secretly a ghost writer for a gangsta rapper named Oral B, come on. It is almost a Farrelly brothers movie with that alone. The book has plenty of twists and Rotter's ability to translate rap colloquialisms into written text is mind blowing.

One of Wally's freestyle rhyme's cracks me up the most. "I'm stoned and I'm spinnin' and the chronic got me feelin' like I'm Lionel f$ckin' Riche and I'm dancin' on the ceilin'." Too funny

The book is quick to get into and hard to put down.

This book is so funny. I read it in one sitting...laughing out loud so ofter that I began to wonder who this guy is that wrote such an amazing first novel. Can't wait for the next!

You must buy this book!! I dont read much but the cover caught my eye, I finished in one sitting..So funny and keeps you turning the pages!! Oh yeah and I look pretty cool walking around holding it!!!

This book was by far my favorite summer read. DDW is so funny, original, and each scene proved vivid and and charming. I literally LOL'ed while reading this, and that RARELY happens. Big ups!!