Waggle

By Joe Redden Tigan

An inordinately beautiful day surprises Chicagoland in July, 2003. No searing heat. No humid haze. Perfect. The new fresh breeze has injected real estate appraiser Conny Bromenn with unprecedented... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595416195
• ISBN13: 9780595416196
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

An involving novel about an awakening sense of social responsibility, highly recommended.

Waggle is a novel written by golf lover Joe Redden Tigan, for fellow golf lovers and suburbanites everywhere. One ordinary day in the summer of 2003, real estate appraiser Conny Bromenn decides to inject some change and meaning into the self-absorbed life he shares with his community. He decides to motivate his Saturday morning golf foursome by replacing their usual wager per hole with certain "pacts" that the loser pledges to adhere to. Hole by hole, the group of 40-year-olds is forced to reexamine their place in the world, and what they need to do. An involving novel about an awakening sense of social responsibility, highly recommended.

Spread the word! This is a good one.

Ok, I'm not much of a golfer and I'm a girl, so I was not sure if I was going to like "Waggle". But, within the first chapter I knew I was going to love it! The author's use of language totally "drives" the book. This is not your typical book you pick-up off the shelf with the same old drone, page, after page, after page. With each new chapter you never know what you are going to get next. I found the variety of techniques employed to relay the story extremely clever and refreshing. It's a fun read and a book I will definitely be reading again. That is, unless, Mr. Tigan gets us that sequel first!

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Waggle is a pure delight with several laugh out loud moments. The golfing foursome of men who grew up with Star Wars (both Lucas and Reagan) involve themselves in a review of life as they find it in paved over Chicagoland via a series of pacts on a blissful July morning of golf. Conny Bromenn provides his friends and golf buddies with extra challenges on the course--not the usual gambling stakes. When he finds himself caught between a desire to raise The Masters to its awesome potential while clearing the Earth of corruption, and a desire as strong not to lose the game, we may think we are involved in intergalactic struggles. Well, maybe, it just depends on how much power you give Hootie Johnson, chairman emeritus of the Augusta National, and the Illinois State Highway Toll Authority. Will any of the four feel that personal sacrifice is worth it? Waggle is a walk through the course with these four and a well-paced, engaging telling of a tale by a wonderful storyteller.

you gotta waggle

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.

waiting for Waggle

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.