About this title: Blip Korterly kicks off a game of graffiti tag on a local overpass by painting a simple phrase: "Uh-oh." An anonymous interlocutor writes back: "When?" Blip slyly answers: "Just a couple of days." But what happens in just a couple of days? Blip is arrested; his friend, Dr. Flake Fountain - a molecular biologist - is drafted into a shadow-government research project conducting experiments on humans. The virus being tested - cleverly called "the Pied Piper" - renders its victims incapable of symbolic capacity; that is, incapable of communication. Is this biological weaponry? What would happen ...
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Description: Fine. 0970141947 Like New-almost perfect. Light wear on cover corner tips. Cover lays flat. Pages sharp and clean. No marks or highlighting in text. No remainder mark from publisher. Accurate Descriptions with Fast Shipping and Robust Packaging! BLK116S. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bast Books
Date Published: 2001-09-01
ISBN-13:9780970141941ISBN:0970141947
Description: Good. Could have owner inscription on front endpage. Possible spine creasing, normal wear on cover, clean pagespossible spine creasing, normal wear on cover, clean pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2007-04-02
ISBN-13:9780156031226ISBN:0156031221
Description: New. New, unread, unused & in perfect condition with no damaged or missing pages. Collectible pre-release book with different cover. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bast Books
Date Published: 2001-09-01
ISBN-13:9780970141941ISBN:0970141947
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Description: Fine. 0156031221 NEVER USED! . There are no highlights, No pen marks, No missing pages. The binding is sturdy. This book may have slight shelf wear. Upgraded shipping on orders over $49.99. Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
"I was walking around Borders, wallowing in self-pity and depression, when I found this book. Not to sound like a worshipper, but this really changed the way I think. It opened my mind towards independent thinking rather than listening to other people. Having just detached myself from the punk scene, I was going through a bout of depression, and for some reason, identified with the main character's terrible situation. A dark, amazing book and story in my opinion. Also, the cover has an apple with the skin coming off on it."
"I went into this book pretty excited from a tiny blurb I read on Amazon...and I am quitting to move on to better things. The story is a satire, but a very disappointing one. In fact, I had to make a new bookshelf in Goodreads for this work, "Not Worth Finishing."
There is one thing that pains me above all else about this book ...Tony Vigorito is trying so hard to rip of Tom Robbins style that it renders his own work unreadable.
The bottom line is that anyone familiar with Tom Robbins would be disappointed at best and disgusted at worst. Anyone not familiar with Tom Robbins should just go out and get a Tom Robbins book....."
"Just a Couple of Days is a thought provoking, intellectual farce that will have you reading one of its two page chapters and thinking about what you just read for twenty minutes. Its definitely funny, but I was expecting more after reading the high praise it got from the author of Lamb. It's very easy to compare it to Cat's Cradle, and it is obvious that Vigorito is a fan of Vonnegut. It is a fantastic first novel, and I am excited to see what else this author can write. My only complaint is that his vocabulary can be a little esoteric, but I'm not sure if that is his voice or his narrator's."
"I really enjoyed this book. I'm not going to compare it to Tom Robbins because it holds its own as a completely separate, unique entity. Much better than "Nine Kinds of Naked."
It shifts back & forth between lyrical prose and edge-of-your-seat plot, using witty humor throughout.
The themes, which he comes back to again and again very directly, are ones that I've thought about many times, but maybe never considered in this particular light. Here and there, there are a few loose ends, but I think it's a positive thing that the book makes me want to converse and maybe argue with the author a little bit.
My one serious complaint is that it wasn't longer - I wanted to see what happened to some of the characters after the story ended, since I grew to love them and their relationships with one another so much. But I suppose it allows the reader to use her or his imagination and that's a good thing. I just wanted more:)
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