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Just a Couple of Days

Just a Couple of Days

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very inspiring
Review: While reading this book, I felt stupid. Mostly because Tony is a brilliant writer with beautiful concepts of reality that although resonate loudly within me, was never articulated with as much clever wit. The reader, if paying attention, is taken on a journey or morality, that will leave you (at least it did for me) happy. But that's because I love questioning my morality and investigating what most people blush at: that said, anyone with a good sense of humor and joy in believing that life isn't just what is said on tv will enjoy Tony's writing style and philosophy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One for the bookshelf
Review: The only thing I don't like about this book is that I can't find it in hardcover.

Every so often I come across a book that I want to add to my "permanent" collection. These are typically books that make me think, that allow me to see my life for what it is: an impermanent experience of the eternal divine. Why I keep them I don't know, but I do, and I like them to be hardcover. This one isn't in hardcover, but it's still earned a position on my shelf.

The best thing about this book is that it's not ponderous. Concepts whiz off every page, effortlessly. The outrageous humor, supreme articulation, and mind-bending plot made the pages turn themselves. The vocabulary was occasionally intense, but never unnecessary. I learned a few new words, like hierophantic. Look it up. It's a good one.

Five stars, easy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Fun Read
Review: Just a Couple of Days, by Tony Vigorito is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. It's a very amusing story about the end of the world. I enjoyed it, and I wish I could have given it 5 stars, but there were moments when it didn't shine. That's just my opinion. But still, I recommend it to anyone who likes this sort of humor.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Funny, Clever, Intriguing
Review: I finished this book just twenty hours after buying it. After reading the first fifty pages I was hooked, unable to do anything else without thinking about what would happen next. Vigorito is masterful with his use of allegory and metaphor. He writes with a clever and cynical style that made me laugh many times. Just a Couple of Days is very multidimensional: along with a story that will leave you with feelings of joy, anger, hope, and shock, it offers wonderful insights about religion, miscommunication, the social universe, and humanity. Highly recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: For Chuck Palahniuk fans who are not so pissed off
Review: All I can say is Wow! This book is filled with so many great ideas and points of view that you almost have to read it twice just to start remembering them. The auther has no other books that I am aware of and his one book is published by a company I haven't even heard of but they sure hit the jackpot.

Everyone I have given this book to has loved it and it is one of the only books that I insist on getting back after lending it.

Be forwarned that you may need a good dictionary and a very good vocabulary to handle the writing style.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: unfathomable
Review: It is unfathomable to me that anyone could dislike this book. However, I've seen it happen with a couple of my friends. It works like this: People either love it or they hate it. There is no lukewarm shrugging. I'm no empiricist, but I think I have identified a couple of characteristics that may determine which category you might fall into.

1. If you can't stand artists who horse around with their craft, whether it's jam bands or wordplay a la Robbins, you may not like this book. I happen to love this kind of free associative spontaneity in music and writing.

2. If this godforsaken world has overcooked your spirit into hardboiled cynicism, you may not like this book. This book is about love, universal love. Some people scoff at this idea.

That's what my friends have in common anyway. Another characteristic might include whether a non-linear plot frustrates you. If so, this one will enrage you. All told, it's not my absolute favorite book, but it's definitely up there.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THIS BOOK WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
Review: I usually cringe at gushy superlatives, but this time it cannot be helped. This is absolutely the best book I've ever read. To be certain, it would be inaccessible to folks with a fifth-grade reading level. It would also be incomprehensible to people who cannot think on an allegorical level. But for anyone who knows how to think, THIS BOOK WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! Every element of the story is tightly crafted. I wish I could describe the story but I've already tried with my friends and find myself fumbling about trying to describe it. Let me try this: It's a hilarious and hallucinogenic apocalypse, but apocalypse doesn't mean what you think it means. The story and the main characters are so engaging that after the first forty pages I couldn't put it down to answer the phone. The writing has layer upon wonderful layer of allegory and metaphor reminiscient of Thomas Pynchon or Tom Robbins, and the epilogue left me with an afterglow that I've yet to come down from.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One for the bookshelf
Review: The only thing I don't like about this book is that I can't find it in hardcover.

Every so often I come across a book that I want to add to my "permanent" collection. These are typically books that make me think, that allow me to see my life for what it is: an impermanent experience of the eternal divine. Why I keep them I don't know, but I do, and I like them to be hardcover. This one isn't in hardcover, but it's still earned a position on my shelf.

The best thing about this book is that it's not ponderous. Concepts whiz off every page, effortlessly. The outrageous humor, supreme articulation, and mind-bending plot made the pages turn themselves. The vocabulary was occasionally intense, but never unnecessary. I learned a few new words, like hierophantic. Look it up. It's a good one.

Five stars, easy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Check this out!
Review: I just finished this book, and I'm still buzzing. It is a real treat to find a book that you can learn from, reflect upon, and be uplifted by all at the same time. I have been reading a lot of different authors lately, from Kesey to Dostoevsky to J.K. Toole, and each has something-- enjoyable writing, good laughs, relevancy, character development, something that makes it really enjoyable. The beauty of this work is that it has it all.

I've been recommending this book since the day I started it, about four days ago. I recommend it to anyone who still has a gleam in their eye, a sense of the potential for all of us to actually "get it" one of these days. Right now, I feel I understand that thing I keep forgetting, having to remind myself of year after year, because its what makes things make sense.

To the author: Good Show, mate! To the reader: Check this out!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: comical, enlightening, and thoroughly enjoyable
Review: this is my current favorite book. not only do i like to randomly open it and re-read passages that spark contagious laughs within me, but I carry several copies of it in the trunk of my car.

it is amazing how many great people i meet wandering around in life, and inevitably something from this book will surface in our conversations. At that point, I pull out an extra copy of this book, share it with my newfound acquaintance, encourage them to read it, and pass it on. Keep the good karma and the great laughs flowing.

a great comedy and unique perspective, especially viewing the current state of the world!

I highly recommend this book!


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