{"id":1137,"date":"2017-01-29T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T01:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2017-02-26T18:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T02:46:28","slug":"love-and-other-pranks-review-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/love-and-other-pranks-review-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Book Review: Love and Other Pranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1064 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Love-and-Other-Pranks.jpg\" alt=\"Love and Other Pranks, by Tony Vigorito\" \/><\/a>(The following review of<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\">Love and Other Pranks<\/a> <\/em>was originally published in<em> Manhattan Book Review<\/em>. The review was written by <span class=\"tagged_as\">Romauld Dzemo<\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tony Vigorito\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\">Love and Other Pranks<\/a><\/em> is a unique, dazzling novel that breaks the conventional rules of storytelling and takes readers to places that sound so familiar yet strange. The time setting of the work covers three centuries, a story that starts off with a brilliant satire of Adam and Eve \u2014 perhaps a hint of the marvel of what awaits the reader in the world of the book. The reader is immediately plunged into a fictional world with very compelling characters, vacillating between the eighteenth century with Caribbean pirates pursuing treasure maps and modern-day San Francisco brimming with elements of the New Age and post-modernity. This is a novel with a lot of entertainment, featuring assassins, lovers, \u201cprophets,\u201d and a lot more.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<span class=\"pullquote-right\">A unique, dazzling novel that breaks the conventional rules of storytelling&#8230;<\/span>A work of great imagination, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\">Love and Other Pranks<\/a><\/em> reads like a well-accomplished canvas, with exciting places to visit and very compelling characters to follow \u2014 and it\u2019s hard not to imagine oneself as part of the exciting drama. Tony Vigorito combines wit with humor to create a work that will entice and have readers utterly enthralled. The writing is crisp and impeccable with thoughts that will stay with readers even after they are done with the story. Here is one of the lines I enjoyed most: \u201cLaughter is our highest prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, he notes that \u201cCalling something an illusion doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t real. It just means it can be whatever we want it to be.\u201d It is also hilarious to read the part where the author compares orgasm to death. Vigorito creates a powerful sense of suspense throughout the work and this keeps the reader turning the pages, uncertain of what could happen next. This is a work that is absorbing, intense, and intoxicating in a satisfying kind of way. I enjoyed the originality of the work, the beauty of the prose, the plot lines and, of course, the biting humor that is introduced right from the very first page of the novel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Five stars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><a class=\"btn btn-info smooth\" href=\"http:\/\/tonyvigorito.com\/love-and-other-pranks.php\" target=\"_blank\">Read the book<\/a><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n           \r\n            <div class=\"onp-locker-call\" style=\"display: none;\" data-lock-id=\"onpLock763652\">\r\n                <p> <\/p>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n         \r\n\r\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The following review of Love and Other Pranks was originally published in Manhattan Book Review. The review was written by Romauld Dzemo.) &nbsp; * * * * * &nbsp; Tony Vigorito\u2019s Love and Other Pranks is a unique, dazzling novel that breaks the conventional rules of storytelling and takes readers to places that sound so&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/love-and-other-pranks-review-3\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Manhattan Book Review: Love and Other Pranks\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manhattan Book Review: Love and Other Pranks &#8212; Tony Vigorito<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Love and Other Pranks is a unique, dazzling novel that breaks the conventional rules of storytelling and takes readers to places that sound so familiar...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvigorito.com\/blog\/love-and-other-pranks-review-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manhattan Book Review: Love and Other Pranks &#8212; 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