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Vincent and Alice and Alice
Vincent and Alice and Alice | Shane Jones
3 posts | 2 read | 2 to read
From the visionary author of Light Boxes, a mind-bending office comedy, and a touching modern love story set against the backdrop of an ever-increasingly disorienting America. Being home all the time is depressing, so I tell my boss "I'm ready for anything" in the strongest conference call voice in the world while driving my hand into a family-sized bag of tortilla chips. Without a future, no Alice, I'm ready for an adventure. Meet Vincent. After his divorce from Alice he's lost his way, and is mindlessly working for the State, counting down the days till retirement. When his boss tells him to participate in a program that promises not only to increase productivity, but show him his "ideal life" he thinks: what's the harm? Others have seen new marked improvements in productivity and personal happiness. Willing to try anything to move away from the heartbreak of Alice, Vincent reluctantly complies. But what the program shows him, is that his ideal life is simply Alice. She's back. Is she real? A clone? A hologram? Despite the lingering questions, Vincent eases back into love and begins to live his life again with Alice, that is, until the real Alice returns. A novel about work, love, and how to live in the present moment, Vincent and Alice and Alice flings us through a shockingly funny and tender-hearted world just a few degrees different from our own, one that introduces us to a wild cast of characters, including the enigmatic CEO of PER, Dorian Blood, a mysterious under-cover cop, and the acid-tongued Elderly, a man living in his car who may be the only one who understands how to live in reality.
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This book was weird. Not what I expected. Some of the blurbs call it dystopian, and I guess in a way it is. It‘s classified sci fi, and I guess in a way it‘s that too. But not really either. Worth the read. Just totally not what I was expecting. I went into it thinking it was a novel about a relationship. It‘s definitely not that.

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This was a strange book that although it had a lot of potential, somehow fell short of what it was trying to achieve. Equal parts sad and humorous, this story was like a sci fi version of Office Space. What if you had the chance to live your perfect life all while living in the mundane? With many great one liners and insights sprinkled throughout, I held out hoping the story would pan out, but instead it fell flat for me.

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Haven‘t heard much about this one, but it starts with a letter I need for #litsyatoz so why not? #letterv