Location: United Kingdom
Member Since:
May 01, 2011
Fandango Virtual
Publisher info
Since 1995 Fandango Virtual has provided quality poetry, fiction and art to readers from all over the world through several online and print magazines. Our current focus is a series of novels and print collections by individual authors.
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Website: http://www.fvbooks.com/
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Making Sense
by Jim Murdoch
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 39,580.
Language:
English.
Published: August 22, 2013
by
Fandango Virtual.
Categories:
Fiction » Literary collections » European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
(4.33 from 3 reviews)
Life doesn’t make sense but we still try to impose a sense of sense onto it. In this collection of stories we meet twenty people who have nothing in common apart from the need to make sense out of their lives, all trying to answer the self-same questions, and where their five senses fall short they have to rely on their other senses: those of humour, of justice, of right and wrong, of decency...
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Fourteen Threadless Needles
on Dec. 13, 2011
I discovered Vito’s poetry online by chance but connected with it immediately. Although I’m a poet myself I dislike more poetry than a like and so to find a poet who consistently produced material that make me think or sometimes just amused me is an achievement in itself. Many of Vito’s poems are slight and if you saw a single one in a magazine you might read it, nod and pass on by. The full effect isn’t realised until you’ve read a sequence of his poems as you get the chance to here. This is something that a lot of poets don’t take enough care of. They publish a book with twenty or thirty poems in it but there’s no overall theme or flavour to the collection. That is not the case here. There is a story, a progression from college through marriage and ending in old age—like a family album. The 4-star rating is not to say that this collection is not good but I think he has potential for more. I’m also a little wary of 5-star reviews especially for first collections. Seamus Heaney’s first collection deserves 5-stars and Philip Larkin’s and Walt Whitman’s. 5 stars should mean something.