A linguistic river of enjoyment...

The following is reprinted from Gaia Community.

“A Linguistic River of Enjoyment

This is a novel that just filled me with joy as I danced along with the linguistic celebration that is this book.

Story aside, haranguing excused, this is one of those books that makes me want to write books; a book that brought back the joy of carrying a dictionary along wherever it went; a book that had me gleefully rolling each word onto the next through my mind's tongue, blissfully sailing along on the poetic coaster the author has fashioned out of his use of language.

The tale is definitely a gripping one as well, but the joy for me was in it's tapestry. I feel this book could have been about anything, and I would have been filled with the same elation just for the opportunity to have read it.”

The following is reprinted from Gaia Community.

“In Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito, the apocalypse comes not by the end of the world as we know it, but by the end of the world as we think it. When an experimental virus that blocks a person's communicative abilities is released from a secret underground laboratory, our antihero protagonist is trapped in an underground bunker to find a cure.

Aside from an absurdly named cast of characters, the book offers a whimsical foray into philosophy and human history. One of the characters, a raging hippie as it were, while arguing with a street preacher with a penchant for hell and damnation, argues that the prophetical number of man, 666, refers not to an individual, but to the scientific number of carbon of which man is comprised - six protons, six neutrons, and six electrons. Upon the breakdown of communicative capacity, beyond the need to name and classify, beyond the necessity to judge, beyond the knowledge of good and evil, the people who are afflicted with the virus of the perpetual Now have a few very perplexing side effects: peace, happiness, and harmony.

As the word 'apocalypse' literally means 'lifting of the veil', Just a Couple of Days truly lifts the veil on much of what has plagued humanity since we began to communicate our thoughts. Quite an apocalypse.”