The Office, Mad Men-StyleHilariously painful picture of a Chicago ad agency when the dot-com bubble bursts. I've never read a better depiction of the herd mentality among cube-dwellers.
The voice of this novel is what will catch you. Conversational, confessional, scattershot in the best possible way, it's life at an advertising agency once the economy goes bust and layoffs begin. Told in plural first person, there's no protagonist, per se, just this office of screw ups, eccentrics,...
So after reading reviews about this book touting it as brilliant and hilarious, I decided it would be the first non-fantasy, non-history book I would read in a long while that wasn't required for class. The first part of the novel just dragged on and on. The author takes a unique narration POV: most...
I'm not quite sure why everyone talks about how hilarious this book is because it really isn't that funny. The characters are often annoying with the way they latch onto the most mundane and ridiculous details in their small office. However, I could relate deeply because anyone who works in a office...
First person tale of life in a US advertising agency approaching a downturn in the 1990s. Tries to be funny, quirky and to mix humour with poignancy, but doesn't deliver. It was neither funny enough to justify its implausibility, nor interesting enough to justify its lack of humour.
There are aspects of Then We Came to the End that will ring familiar to nearly anyone who has ever had a job - no matter how big or small the workplace, regardless of what the job actually is (or was). I think that's because for many of us, being "at work" is about so much more than the work. It's t...
This is the funniest workplace comedy I've ever read. It's well-observed, with deep affection for every character, even the ones who drive you crazy at the office in real life.
An insightful book about life for the 9 to 5 race, Then We Came to the End is funny and sad at the same time. Any office worker would be able to relate to this fictional story of the employees of an advertising agency. Each character, whether it is the office gossip, the hard-worker, or the dominati...
Joshua Ferris' Then We Came to the End was one of my favorite novels published this year. No other book that I have ever read has focused on the reality that most of us spend the majority of our adult lives at work, and therefore in the company of people that we are neither related to, nor necessari...
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