The Adventure of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist

by Michael Wex

Book Overview

Heir to the Hipster line of rabbinical leaders and sages, eleven year old Micah Mushmelon enlists Shraga Potasznik, the comic-book-addicted protagonist of this novella to make good of all things... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978280628
• ISBN13: 9780978280628
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Quattro Books
• Length: 83 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Very funny...until....

At least half of this book is incredibly funny, mainly the first half. But the offer veers off into weird sexual "adventures" that are not funny and not interesting. Basically, pointless. A pity Mr. Wex wasted his talent at this close of this really clever book. I don't understand why he would have done so much damage.

News from Hipst

When I read this book for the first time tears were running down my cheeks from laughing so hard. It's probably the wildest adventure I ever read in fiction, and I read a lot. It's an unbelievable plot happening to young Shraga Potasznik who not only has to save the world and comes to discover that he had offended a saint in heaven before he was even born. He has to put up with the fact that his personal enemy, disguised as a rabbi, is the greatest threat to God and only Shraga himself can stop him and save His entire Creation. There's only one who can help him, one who actually knows him from way before when they were still studying in the heavenly yeshiva that no one ever remembers -- except for Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist. It is impossible to give even a slight insight into the fun deriving from a book that could as well come as a comic strip epos. There is nothing more hip than the Hipster chassidim and their congregation called Shoymer Pesoyim -- Protector of the Idiots. This is a wild mixture of both orthodox Yiddish (proved by the talmud) and American culture working hand in hand to produce one giant laughter. The story of the Hipster dynasty includes the limbo as well as the conga line, Charlie Parker, "der foygl," almost ends up with a nice job in the Hipsters' choire, the Mormon Tabernacle Choire refuses to reside in a Sukke (a shack covered with leaves for a Jewish holiday), and evil Les Dean utters convalescence by humming "Guantanamera." Not to mention Tess and Tisha Buvv who both shake the walls of Shraga's fading temple of childhood. This is a great book, and if Sawyer and Finn had been Jewish they'd have had fun like Micah and Shraga.