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The Mighty Walzer (Hardcover)

by Howard Jacobson (Author)
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"The most dangerously funny writer in the English language." - "Sunday Times"

"From the Trade Paperback edition."



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"The most dangerously funny writer in the English language." - Sunday Times


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1.0 out of 5 stars Over rated, Jun 12 2004
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This review is from: The Mighty Walzer (Paperback)
The incredible blurbs on the back cover of the book promise a book of great hilarity and insight. The bleak truth is that it contains very little of either. An obsessive self interest and self absorbtion drowns out any sympathy that you might want to give to Oliver Walzer. The star table tennis player schtick (borrowed from Forrest Gump) is extraordinarily tiring --you wanted to clout both central character and author with a racquet or something and have them wake up and talk about something else.
This is a shame because I thought the current hype around his latest book was genuine discovery of a new voice. I have enjoyed other books of his and hope that he regained some touch in his most recent novel.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Walzer=Joke, Jul 29 2002
By Dan Silver (Wynnewood, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This book is an absolute joke. And by that I mean it is hilarious. The life of the Mighty Walzer is something that has to be read by everyone. I mean, this guy is an absolute joke. I was laughing aloud the entire book, I couldn't put it down. I am a huge ping pong fan, so the book really struck a chord with me, and it made me reminisce about the good ole' days playing pinger (as my father and I called ping-pong) with my dad.
I am telling you, Howard Jacobson is an absolute genius. After reading this book I think Walzer should become a household name. What a joke!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Jacobson Smash, Sep 21 2000
By FORREST (Crediton, Devon United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I defy you to keep silent while reading this acerbic, very auto-biographical book. My wife nearly divorced me on the spot for all the sighing and laughing. Very funny, very moving - but if you're anti-Semitic or at all prudish, forget it. There's something of Portnoy in here, of course - how else, he implies, do table tennis players make those wristy shots work so well? Jacobson's great achievement is to make the prosaic but strangely magnificent sport of table tennis the stuff of great literature. (And unless being ridiculously funny means that a book can't count as great, this is high quality material.) You don't have to be coked up like Patsy in Ab Fab to find the whole procedure irresistible. Highly recommended.
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