The Prankster, James Polster
The Prankster, James Polster
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The Prankster
A Novella

Author: James Polster

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 2 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/10/2012

Synopsis

Time-traveling alien Pom Trager has used the gullible denizens of Earth as fodder for his practical jokes throughout the ages, with the pyramids, Picasso, and several US presidents among his more modest pranks. Why does he do it? To boost the ratings of The Prankster, his home planet’s most popular reality show.But when a system snafu lands Trager in the wrong place, he finds himself at the mercy of the very species he’s made into a galactic laughingstock. His only allies are the hapless assistant he just fired and an Earth woman who lends a hand against her better judgment.With a relentless sheriff hot on their heels, the unlikely trio must drive from Santa Fe to San Francisco within two days. Otherwise their one chance for rescue will vanish—and Trager will be stuck in a backwater world of his own making.In The Prankster, award-winning author James Polster hilariously skewers our cultural obsession with self-importance and entertainment.

About James Polster

Equal parts novelist, journalist, explorer, and movie producer, James Polster draws on his rich cultural experiences to craft highly entertaining stories with social significance. From profiling Indira Gandhi and Donald Trump, to covering the World Championship of Elephant Polo in Nepal, to navigating the Amazon River and living among jungle cannibals, Polster’s adventures have given him a unique perspective on life that infuses his work with witty depth.A graduate of Harvard and Columbia universities, Polster has written A Guest in the Jungle, The Graduate Student, and Brown, which received the Critics’ Choice Award and was named by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of the Year. He lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maya on November 18, 2013

Very entertaining. A scathingly caustic look at reality prank TV - you know the sort of thing I mean, Trigger Happy TV, Punk'd, Candid Camera, if your memory goes back that far - seen through the eyes of aliens, sent to mock the human race. Only this time, the sardonic host Pom Trager gets rather mo......more

Goodreads review by Tim on July 29, 2020

Prankster is about a prankster, Trager, from another planet who comes to Earth to play tricks on the humans. Like planting Triceratops bones for them to ponder over, or getting them to build pyramids, all very funny for the guys back home who watch the TV show that he fronts. But this time the prank......more

Goodreads review by Kat on August 16, 2012

We’ve been Punk’d! It seems that lots of the interesting stuff that happens on Earth is caused by Pom Trager, an arrogant time travelling alien who plays tricks on us and shows the results on his reality TV show called The Prankster. While humans think that significant historical events are happening......more

Goodreads review by Fantasy Literature on June 01, 2013

We’ve been Punk’d! It seems that lots of the interesting stuff that happens on Earth is caused by Pom Trager, an arrogant time travelling alien who plays tricks on us and shows the results on his reality TV show called The Prankster. While humans think that significant historical events are happening......more

Goodreads review by Jan on February 20, 2014

It was ok. It moved rather slow. But there were some scenes in the book that were quite funny. The book picked up and got more interesting in the center of the story. Interesting approach to the whole universe watching Earth show...with the Prankster from the Actinium System alternating Earth's hist......more

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