Waggle [Paperback]

Joe Tigan (Author)

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About the Author

Joe Redden Tigan has had poetry published in The High Plains Literary Review and other literary journals. This is his first novel. He once caddied in the Western Open, one of golf’s oldest and most prestigious tournaments.

Product Details

• Paperback: 201 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (March 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595416195
• ISBN-13: 978-0595416196
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,585,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars waiting for Waggle, March 24, 2007

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comeinlondon (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waggle (Paperback)

One word: SEQUEL! Or prequel. I don't care, as long as we find out either where Waggle came from and/or where it's going. As a life-long golfer and avid reader, Waggle is the book I realize now I've been waiting for my whole life. A one of a kind.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars waggle once, waggle twice..., March 23, 2007

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penwarrant (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waggle (Paperback)

As soon as I got to the end of Waggle, I immediately started reading it again. I've never done that with any other book before. Why did I do it with this one? It's hard to describe exactly, but I guess I wanted to relive it again, to go through Tigan's incredible descriptions of all kinds of golf swings. And to go through the dialogue. Possibly some of the funniest dialogue I've seen. For such a short book about a (supposedly) limited time span, Tigan has packed an entire world in 200 pages. I don't know of another book like it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars you gotta waggle, March 23, 2007

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basilrathbone (london) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waggle (Paperback)

Can four golfing buddies save suburbia? In this often hilarious, often surprisingly sensitive search for the meaning of life, they just might. While Waggle spends considerable time searching for a social conscience on a suburban golf course, Joe Redden Tigan's first novel is not only a story about four men's (reluctant) white-collar search for self-fulfillment in the suburbs, it's also at parts a slightly demented guidebook on how certain golf bets are constructed and what is involved in the mechanics of many kinds of golf shots.

Waggle certainly alludes to the inevitable ennui of a listless suburban life, but that's not the main purpose of the book--to let things wallow in Pleasant-Valley-Sunday demographic oblivion. Waggle comes to the suburbs already understanding the inherent trappings of affluent complacency, having a history of it, but in search of a solution. As many solutions as possible, in fact. The real question here is not whether an unexamined (suburban) life is vacuous or not, but, if given several ways to lead a more meaningful life, would people take any at all.