What do You think about Just A Couple Of Days (2007)?
What a great first half! Vigorito sets up the action spectacularly. Unfortunately the second half drags. This book was originally published by a very small press and could have used the talents of a big press editor. Many, many pages of the narrators views on the world could have been purged. Vigorito never gives you the chance to decide what you think of what is going on. He proceeds to tell you, over and over, what everything means. Vigorito has some great ideas. I would very much like to check out his other books. Hopefully they have an editor!
—Eli
Some people play the lottery. Some people go to the casino. Some people bet on the horses. When I want to gamble, I go to Borders and walk around. I look at books all over the story. And then I gamble on a book I've never heard before. This time, I hit the jackpot. Vigorito's prose is lyrical, flowing and downright funny. I'm having a lot of fun reading this book while taking a break from the king-hell bummer that is Palast's book. A lot of the authors I read rarely do so well on a first novel. But this guy blew me away. I had a lot of fun reading it and am disappointed his next won't be out for another year. The only criticism I have is that like Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash," it came out of the gate like a racing thoroughbred, but finished a little winded. He came up with a great story, but the followthrough was lacking the same punch. Trust me, read this one.
—jackalope Mack
Started out good, but ended up being an incredible let down, I felt myself skipping through pages upon pages of artfully crafted yet extremely repetitive prose, making and re-making the same point over and over and over again to the point where I thought where was the editor of this book?Sad to say I didn't even care for the characters especially the look-how-free-spirited-we-are! couple, and the main character who I felt was way too passive.In the end there were some good ideas in this book, but you have to go through so much overly-embellished writing to find them and it might drive you mad.
—Nedda
