Wow...I don't know where to start with this book. If I could get a case or two, I would hand it out to all my friends, and, preferably, to randoms! I must admit, if you hadn't already figured it out, that I'm a lit geek. Not in the "classical" sense though...the more broken, fractured, & twisted a story is, the more I tend to like it...as long as it goes somewhere. This book tickled my deepest lit geek bones, using amazing alliteration to accentuate abstract allusions and lift the literature loftily into liminal realms. (Yes, a bit of a stretch, but I think you get the point!)
Synchronicity...when it all boils down to it, that's the core of this book. To me, it struck a very Taoist chord, taking life, and all the oddities within it, as it comes. A tornado-birthed-stripper, the man who "created" said tornado with a flick of his wrist, lascivious hurricanes, & day-glo frisbees...all wrapped up into an absurdist miasma of interwoven realities, sociology, consciousness, "bubblegum spirtuality", chaos theory, and a deep sense of curiousity and reflection. A mind-expanding book, with delicious wit, spiraling trains of thought, and enough esoterica to have you saying, "Hmmmmm..."! Don't be surprised if you need to crack the dictionary a few times, either. =)
Wow...can you tell this book inspired me to start doing book "reviews" in the first place? It just isn't often that you find a book that can jump from humor to philosophy without a second glance, and still have you in awe of his linguistic trickery. That's all for now...my brain is swirling just remembering this book. I may add some more after i let it re-percolate in my gray matter for a bit!
Nine Kinds of Naked - Tony Vigorito @ Amazon
For the slightly more academic side of Tony Vigorito, here's an article he wrote for Reality Sandwich, a wonderful site with Daniel Pinchbeck (another fave, though in a different realm) as one of the main editors:
Chaos, Collapse, and Synchronicity
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