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Cleveland Live, May 15, 2012
...preface for this edition. The modest audiobook price makes this collection an exceptional bargain. Grade: A Pocket Kings Ted Heller; read by William Roberts This snarky, jaded, laugh-out-loud funny novel masks a painful look at the deceitful and...
Three Village Patch, April 23, 2012
...in which two homicides – including one within the U.S. government – are linked. Pocket Kings by Ted Heller. A realistic satire of online obsessions in which a frustrated novelist finds a new online vice that seems to give him what the real world...
Alibi, April 19, 2012
...sense of self-entitlement. Or at least that's what you get in Frank W. Dixon, the protagonist of Ted Heller's Pocket Kings. Written in the style of a memoir from Dixon's angsty point of view, Heller succeeds in creating one of the most wholly dislikable...
New York Times, April 7, 2012
...a shredder, and we all know that fictional characters almost never resemble the authors who invent them, right? Ted Heller POCKET KINGS By Ted Heller 355 pp. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Paper, $13.95. Franklin W. Dixon, the protagonist of Ted Hellers...
New York Times, April 6, 2012
...A failed writer turns to online poker in Ted Heller’s novel...
Washington Post, March 30, 2012
...have found so offensive that they cant continue. Personal Post (Algonquin Books) - ‘Pocket Kings: A Novel’ by Ted Heller The cumulative effect of this crisis is a severely strained marriage, a crippling case of writers block and an emotional...
Jewish Week, February 20, 2012
...Nazis’ obsession with the Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, through the tale of a Nazi ideologue and his hero. Ted Heller sets his satiric tale, “Pocket Kings” (Algonquin, March), in the world of online poker, where a writer suffering from...
Reading Matters, July 28, 2011
...a comedy of manners. I laughed out loud a lot while reading this one! ________________________________________________________________________ Slab Rat by Ted Heller (2001) A wickedly funny — and very realistic — look at what it's like for a ...
