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Books : Then We Came to the End: a Novel: A Novel
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Then We Came to the End: a Novel: A Novel by: Joshua Ferris List Price: £7.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £4.23 You Save: £3.76 (47%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780141027630 ISBN: 0141027630 Label: Penguin Manufacturer: Penguin Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: January 04, 2008 Publisher: Penguin Studio: Penguin Sales Rank: 3921 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Not sure!Well I finished this book this morning and I really cannot decide whether I liked it or not. The book is set in a failing Chicago advertising agency which is what mainly drew me to the book as up until six months ago I was working in a failing advertising department for a newspaper so I suppose I may have been looking for a little bit of nostalgia. The characters are the driving force of Ferris' work as until the end not much happens. The characters are fantastic though, you have Marcia Dwyer who has hair from the 80's; Tom Mota who does not leave when sacked; Larry and Amber having an affair; Lynn Mason dying from Cancer and Joe Pope who nobody really knows anything about. Ferris has captured perfectly office life and the inevitable ... Read More: Rating:  - Original, funny, close to lifeWhen I first started reading I thought the "we" viewpoint would annoy me but having finished it ina matter of hours, I think the author has pulled it off with incredible skill. It's original, funny, close to life and all those things that a good book should be: the characters are absolutely fascinating and believable, the plot strands are very carefully woven together. I can understand those who don't want to read about work when they aren't there, but unlike working in my office, I really feel that it's telling me something new about the world. Very enjoyable. Rating: - Good but not as good as the hype'We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fiteen.' This book is funny - about work in offices and in advertising. The characters are mainly cyphers. Our narrator is one of the gang but we gradually come to understand the different personalities as they live through being fired or the fear of being fired. The boss they all fear has breast cancer and part of the novel is her story in a very different voice which we later find is that of one the gang - an aspiring novelist. As others here have said the hype has been misleading but this is a funny and original novel - very good on the paranoia of office life. Rating:  - Nagging feelingI was taken in by the blurb on the cover and that probably set my expectations too high. The overriding feeling though, throughout reading this was that it is a poor, less funny book in the style of Douglas Coupland. If you loved this book (like so many people seemed to do) then try Microserfs and JPod by Coupland and see, in my opinion, how it should be done and how funny this kind of subject can be. Rating: - inventive but too longI really enjoyed a lot of this book, perhaps not least because I know the advertising world a bit, but anyone who's worked in an office will recognise the petty intrigues, games and rituals that develop over time. It could have done with slightly harsher pruning from the editor I feel, but no doubt some of its repetition is to make the point about how repetitious office life is. Very funny in places, very sad in places and thoughtful throughout, this isn't the most up book you'll read, but it's worth a read nonetheless |
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