- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1 edition (Aug 14 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1416537864
- ISBN-13: 978-1416537861
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 17 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #815,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
About the Author
A native of New York, Gabe Rotter now permanently resides in Los Angeles with his wife. He graduated from the film school at The University of Southern California in 2000, and since has worked in television, produced a feature film, penned the novel Duck Duck Wally, written a comic book, and is currently Director of Development for Ten Thirteen Productions. He has several of his own projects in development for film and television adaptation.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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laughs aplenty, Aug 14 2007
By Jane Readmore "JR" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Duck Duck Wally: A Novel (Hardcover)
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!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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For the Dawgs and this ol' hen, Nov 8 2010
By Josie Renwah - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Duck Duck Wally: A Novel (Paperback)
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Love Love this book!, July 21 2010
By KaleighEB - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Duck Duck Wally: A Novel (Hardcover)
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)
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