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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Very fun, witty irreverentBy RaymondGWI didn't think I would like this book at first. It was very dry in the beginning and didn't seem like it was going to go anywhere. Then it went...all over the place, but in a great and enjoyable way. The attention given to recreating party scenes and realistic dialogue were much appreciated. The characters are very developed, especially the main character whom you can't help but to like even though he's a bit of a hopeless schlub. I liked the way the plot developed and the way that everything eventually comes full circle. It ends pretty much the only way it can and still be true to itself, and when you finish you find that you've gone on a very interesting journey and it's time for a nap.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. My book group loved this book and we had an active discussionBy DeMy book group loved this book and we had an active discussion. I am not a big fan of books that bring up a million details and then neatly wrap them all up in the end. It seemed to me that Beauman's goal was to tie in all sorts of ideas he had about Germany between the wars and the Wiemar Republic. I rather prefer more constrained narratives. But if you were to judge it by the enthusiastic reaction of my group of well educated and well read gentleman friends, The Teleportation Accident was a BIG hit.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. enjoy the ride as his main character blunders his way ...By Robert GrantThis is as quirky a novel as I've ever read. Quirky doesn't always mean enjoyable but, in this case, it's remarkably enjoyable, despite its tenuous connection with reality, or even probability. Read it, enjoy the ride as his main character blunders his way through one ill-conceived encounter after another, then sit back and ponder what in heck might have caused this idea to take form in Mr. Beauman's weird imiagination.

When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen.If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't.But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theaters of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: Was it really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, Renaissance set designer Adriano Lavicini, creator of the so-called Teleportation Device? And why is it that a handsome, clever, modest guy like him can't-just once in a while-get himself laid?

From Booklist*Starred * Egon Loeser, an avant-garde set designer in Weimar-era Berlin, is obsessed with a girl named Adele Hitler (no relation), who, like most other girls, won’t sleep with him, forcing Egon to spend his evenings with the alluring women portrayed in a pornographic novel called Midnight at the Nursing Academy. Then there is his current project, designing the sets for an Expressionist production of a play about Renaissance set designer Lavicini, whose so-called teleportation device (think “Beam me up, Scotty”) exploded in a crowded Italian theater. Loeser hopes to re-create the teleportation device for a spectacular finale that will gain him the respect he craves from his fellow dissolute artists. Naturally, it all goes bad. Fraulein Hitler hooks up with Egon’s worst enemy, and the teleportation device explodes, well, prematurely, forcing Egon to escape to Paris and from there to California. Tragically, he loses his favorite book en route. Egon can run, but he can’t hide. Adele turns up in California, too, working for a wacky scientist who appears to be experimenting with something very like a teleportation device. There is so much going on in this truly bizarre novel—everything from slapstick to noir to steampunk—that discombobulated readers may feel as though they’ve fallen down a narrative wormhole. But what a wormhole! Beauman, a kind of comic version of Nick Harkaway in Angelmaker (2012), gives us an apolitical German in 1930s Berlin who is indifferent to Nazis but despises Bertolt Brecht and who hasn’t had sex in three years but still pines for a girl named Hitler. It makes no sense, but it’s brilliant. --Bill Ott “Gobsmackingly clever.” ?Vanity Fair“The Teleportation Accident is a singular novel -- singularly clever, singularly audacious, singularly strange--from a singular, and almost recklessly gifted, young writer.” ?Time.com“Endlessly witty and furiously inventive, Ned Beauman's second novel... consolidates [his] stature as a formidably accomplished writer... Beauman flaunts an almost indecently pleasurable way with words as he piles on outrageous developments... This [is a] dazzling entertainment. It's rare for a book to stimulate the brain cells and the funny bone with equal gusto, but Beauman has a knack for embedding trenchant philosophical blasts in punch lines... You laugh, then you flinch. On the evidence of his first novel, Boxer Beetle, and now this brilliantly clever and covertly humane book, Beauman promises to keep us laughing and flinching for years to come.” ?The Washington Post“Brilliant... If there was ever any worry that [Beauman] might have crammed all his ideas into his first book, the prize-winning Boxer, Beetle, this makes it clear he kept a secret bunker of his best ones aside.” ?Joe Dunthorne, The Guardian“Fiendishly clever... This fizzy novel is a great time machine all its own, jumping between the Renaissance and the future, flirting with noir, sci-fi, and romance, and skewering the ‘same empty people going to the same empty parties' along the way. Every generation gets the hipster satire it deserves. But this one's for every generation. Grade: A” ?Melissa Maerz, Entertainment Weekly“Inspired... Beauman has an unflagging imagination and an indefatigable gift for comedy.” ?Publishers Weekly“Funny and startlingly inventive... Beauman is undoubtedly a writer of prodigious talent, and there are enough ideas [here]... to fill myriad lesser novels.” ?The Financial Times“Brilliantly written... A confounding sci-fi-noir-comedy mashup overstuffed with astute social observations, high-brow literary allusions, stupendous Pynchonian names and prose so odd and marvelous that every few pages I had to stop and reread a passage.” ?Jennifer Reese, NPR.org“There is so much going on in this truly bizarre novel?everything from slapstick to noir to steampunk?that discombobulated readers may feel as though they’ve fallen down a narrative wormhole. But what a wormhole! ... Brilliant.” ?Bill Ott, Booklist (starred review) “The oversized, exuberant, and farcical plot of The Teleportation Accident is more entertaining than any summary can convey... [Beauman] has the knack for populating his tale with absurd secondary characters, spinning seemingly minor details into long-running jokes, and for placing his protagonist into precarious, comically rich scrapes. The result is rewarding; there are no such thing as pointless digressions in The Teleportation Accident, just the rollicking tale of a hapless Loeser following his heart.” ?Daily Beast“As wild a cast of eccentrics and madmen, scammers and venal self-servers, hapless saps and trodden-down dreamers, as you have seen since the heyday of J. P. Donleavy or Evelyn Waugh… Teleporting directly into the ranks of such mythomaniacal jesters as Nick Sagan and Christopher Moore, Ned Beauman kicks any sophomore qualms to the curb.” ?BN “Incredibly intelligent, fantastically distracted... You won't read a more memorable novel about sex, obsession and the sticky stuff of science fiction this year, if ever....Profoundly funny, and on the sentence level, simply exhilarating.” ?Tor.com“Bizarre, original, and satisfying... [Beauman is] a special talent... He takes the sort of risks that writers under 30 should take, but rarely do.” ?BookPage“Beauman has created a wacky mash-up of a hefty number of genres -- historical fiction, noir, slapstick, science fiction and satire -- populated by sinners, ghouls and Caltech physicists and set mainly in the pre-World War II period. And, yes, there is a teleportation device.” ?Star-Telegram (Fort Worth“[A] pyrotechnical... violently clever... highly cerebral… frantically entertaining pasteboard extravaganza… Extraordinary.” ?The Sunday Times“Popping with ideas, fizzing with vitality, and great fun.” ?The Independent on Sunday“Stylistically radical... Virtuosic... An unquestionably brilliant novel, ribald and wise in equal measure... Witty and sometimes deeply moving.” ?Times Literary Supplement“A glorious, over-the-top production, crackling with inventive wit and seething with pitchy humour . . . It's as if the English tradition of humorous novels (PG Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh) and American comic fiction (Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth) have had their molecules recombined . . . A beguiling success.” ?The Scotsman“If you care about contemporary fiction, you must read this.” ?TatlerAbout the AuthorNed Beauman was born in 1985 and studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His first novel, Boxer, Beetle, won a National Jewish Book Award and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award, and was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. He has recently lived in Berlin, London, Istanbul, and New York. 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