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An ambitious and exuberant antidote to the end-of-the-world blues, Just a Couple of Days has established itself as the underground classic of this generation. Hilarious, poignant, and delightfully subversive, this visionary satire of the apocalypse has been called "a Dr. Strangelove for the biotech century."
If words could dance, this is the story they would tell.
"Just a Couple of Days is a lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it!" -CHRISTOPHER MOORE, Author of 'Lamb' and 'A Dirty Job'
"Tony Vigorito's brilliant novel is a Dr. Strangelove for the biotech century, a witty and wise end-of-the-world romp that manages to be optimistic - even joyous - yet cynically dystopian at the same time. Just a Couple of Days is savvy, wickedly funny, and profoundly disturbing. An absorbing, thought-provoking read." - RICHARD HEINBERG, author of 'The Party's Over' and 'Powerdown'
"Just a Couple of Days is a most intriguing book; well-written and daring. It's the kind of ground-breaking work we look for..." - INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER
"An unpredictably adventurous and singularly ambitious novel. Especially recommended reading for anyone with a literary interest in the surreal..." - WISCONSIN BOOKWATCH
"One is immediately impressed... Vigorito laces his writing with a satirical touch, adding levity to the heady subject matter." - COLUMBUS ALIVE
"Hilarious...provokes thought and laughter and shows that freedom is, indeed, a bigger game than power." - ZENZIBAR ALTERNATIVE CULTURE
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145 of 167 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
THIS BOOK WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Just a Couple of Days (Paperback)
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.
56 of 62 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
genre bender,
By A Customer
This review is from: Just a Couple of Days (Paperback)
I'm impressed, but I'm having a hard time describing why. Just a Couple of Days is not easily categorized into a neat little genre. It has elements of sci-fi, but then not really, or perhaps only to the extent that Kurt Vonnegut does. But then it's much more inspiring than Vonnegut's work, and so then it drifts toward Tom Robbins, as I've seen it compared to in other reviews, but then that comparison falters too because the plotline here is much more engaging and suspenseful. There is the wordplay, which I resisted the same way I usually resist the first 50 pages of any Robbins novel before I finally succumb. But here too, the wordplay also serves as a demonstration of the novel's theme, which has mainly to do with the significance of language to the human perception of reality. I was entertained but I was also enlightened, and so there's also some similarities to be drawn to "visionary fiction" such as James Redfield and Daniel Quinn, but then again not really, as those writers tend to be overly ponderous and contrived, with flimsy plotlines and occasional flakiness. There's really none of that here, despite the fact that one of the main characters' names is Flake, which should illustrate the fact that Vigorito takes nothing seriously. It was fun, an absurdist psychedelic satire of the apocalypse, that's my categorization. I've never read anything like it before, and I look forward to his next novel.
94 of 110 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
unfathomable,
By Wiggs Dannyboy (Amerika) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Just a Couple of Days (Paperback)
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.
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