I want to talk about Joshua Ferris's wonderful novel Then We Came to the End in a little bit. But first, I want to talk about something I just learned because I read this book. I want to talk about abridgment. I've always avoided abridged works. As an author, I would feel insulted having my work b...
The employees of an advertising agency are being laid off. They let us into their office lives.I know some of these people. Ok, most of these people. The character development was done well. There is not much plot other than the office intrigues of these people. It is the gossip and the craziness th...
What an absolutely lovely, witty and moving workspace comedy! I really REALLY enjoyed every single word of it. It’s 2001. The story takes place in a top Chicago advertising and marketing agency, struggling to adapt to the new internet-related market environment to stay in business basically. Which...
Poor Joshua Ferris. The classy contemporary writers of literary fiction who've blurbed his novel Then We Came to the End have compared him to Joseph Heller ("Then We Came to the End is the Catch-22 of the business world…" says Jim Shepard) and Peter DeVries ("…penned with a Devriesian sharpness…" a...
I've now done 10 years in open-plan offices. There was an incident at work last year where two colleagues and I realised we’d formed our own self-confirming gossip circle: Colleague A shared a rumour with me, I passed it on to Colleague B, and then they’d got together, told each other, and believed ...
The trouble with ebook browsing is that you cannot always peek into the book. I found the cover of this book intriguing and so I checked it out, but as soon as I looked at the first page, I recognized it as something I had read a few years ago. I have decided that I would not review a book any late...
The first person plural works, and there are descriptions that encapsulate office life perfectly that you go, "Yes! This." My favorite character is Lynn because she's the most real. The rest are, and this is probably done on purpose, caricatures. The part that stuck most with me was where Joe Pope d...
I'm giving this one a low four stars. The writer is too clever by half. You like him, you love him, he pushes it too far with his characters and the scenarios, and you love to hate him. Tom's colorful incident in the second half of the book is a perfect example.I did admire how easily he fell into h...
Almost 3 stars3 or 4 good laughs1 wise haircutThis was a very entertaining book, especially for anyone who's ever worked in an office. The characters are likeable and realistic. It's touching at times, too, if occasionally hokey. I'd consider this a decent "beach book."On the downside, in terms of p...
'Literary' ShenanigansUp until the very end, even through the last few chapters about Tom, I wanted to give it three. Although that still may have been generous.I didn't mind the first person plural point of view, ultimately, at least until the last sentence. Until that last sentence I didn't feel a...
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